TONIGHT With Vincent Browne

ascanbe

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Well, considering that Norris wouldn't go anywhere near the Vincent Browne Show when all the Helen Lucy Burke stuff was hitting the fan, I find it absolutely pathetic that TV3 bosses would now turn around and offer the coward a show during the summer; unless it was to secure high audience ratings of course :rolleyes:

Fair point. But yeah, audience ratings is all that TV3 care about; they're a commercial station after all.
Come to think of it, audience ratings also seems to be RTE's guiding light, despite their suppossed public service remit.

Lady Chatterton

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Well, considering that Norris wouldn't go anywhere near the Vincent Browne Show when all the Helen Lucy Burke stuff was hitting the fan, I find it absolutely pathetic that TV3 bosses would now turn around and offer the coward a show during the summer; unless it was to secure high audience ratings of course :rolleyes:

Norris is going to be on for one night only.

ascanbe

MrsD007 wrote: »

Norris is going to be on for one night only.

So get your tickets now..
He may be 'back by popular-demand', though.

JonathanAnon

MrsD007 wrote: »

Norris is going to be on for one night only.

I hope the Twitter Machine is working that night..

Lady Chatterton

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I hope the Twitter Machine is working that night..

I'd say the show will be pre-recorded. It will be a great pre presidential election broadcast for him, I'm amazed that it is allowed at all.

Sardonicat

MrsD007 wrote: »

I'd say the show will be pre-recorded. It will be a great pre presidential election broadcast for him, I'm amazed that it is allowed at all.

Maybe because he is not nominated yet? (AFAIK)

Lady Chatterton

Sardonicat wrote: »

Maybe because he is not nominated yet? (AFAIK)

That is correct Sardy but the show is due to air in August and barring some major disaster he will have received an nomination by then.

Harry Angstrom

MrsD007 wrote: »

Norris is going to be on for one night only.

It doesn't matter if it's for one night, one week or one month. The fact of the matter is that this coward is being alloted air-time despite the fact that he refused point blank to appear on VB's show when the whole HLB controversy was raging. Presumably it will be a show where Norris will be allowed to indulge his own guests and nothing of his own personal travails will be mentioned.

It's this kind of shyte, not no mention the fact that Nora Owen is being indulged on her own show on Midweek, which turns me right off TV Twee.

Lady Chatterton

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It doesn't matter if it's for one night, one week or one month. The fact of the matter is that this coward is being alloted air-time despite the fact that he refused point blank to appear on VB's show when the whole HLB controversy was raging. Presumably it will be a show where Norris will be allowed to indulge his own guests and nothing of his own personal travails will be mentioned.

It's this kind of shyte, not no mention the fact that Nora Owen is being indulged on her own show on Midweek, which turns me right off TV Twee.

Harry, I completely agree with the points you have made and I've made some of them on this thread last week. It is interesting that Norris has been given one night while others have been given a week, maybe TV3 forsee some difficulties already.

I really can't understand why retired ministers are being given jobs in journalism. I also wish that RTE would use the summer schedule to do a Saturday Night Live programme with different guest presenters every week instead of having Miriam on both radio and TV every weekend.

Corsendonk

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It doesn't matter if it's for one night, one week or one month. The fact of the matter is that this coward is being alloted air-time despite the fact that he refused point blank to appear on VB's show when the whole HLB controversy was raging. Presumably it will be a show where Norris will be allowed to indulge his own guests and nothing of his own personal travails will be mentioned.

It's this kind of shyte, not no mention the fact that Nora Owen is being indulged on her own show on Midweek, which turns me right off TV Twee.

Remember when her and the sister Mary had to keep slipping into conversation who their grand uncle was.:rolleyes:

Corsendonk

MrsD007 wrote: »

Harry, I completely agree with the points you have made and I've made some of them on this thread last week. It is interesting that Norris has been given one night while others have been given a week, maybe TV3 forsee some difficulties already.

I really can't understand why retired ministers are being given jobs in journalism. I also wish that RTE would use the summer schedule to do a Saturday Night Live programme with different guest presenters every week instead of having Miriam on both radio and TV every weekend.

What are TV3 doing for friday nights? VB mentioned the guest presenters were covering mon-thurs.

Lady Chatterton

Corsendonk wrote: »

What are TV3 doing for friday nights? VB mentioned the guest presenters were covering mon-thurs.

As far as I know the Friday night show is going to be axed, I think Skid said that Vinny was interviewed by Matt Cooper recently and he admitted that ratings on a Friday night were not great.

Harry Angstrom

Corsendonk wrote: »

What are TV3 doing for friday nights? VB mentioned the guest presenters were covering mon-thurs.

I think the Friday night show is finished for good. Vinnie was on the Ray D'arcy Show a couple of weeks back and he intimated that the Friday show wouldn't be continuing for much longer. It was an abject failure so it won't be missed much, apart from the Jedward night

Lady Chatterton

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

I think the Friday night show is finished for good. Vinnie was on the Ray D'arcy Show a couple of weeks back and he intimated that the Friday show wouldn't be continuing for much longer. It was an abject failure so it won't be missed much, apart from the Jedward night

Jedward were absolutely brilliant that night, maybe they should take over the Friday night slot

Harry Angstrom

MrsD007 wrote: »

Jedward were absolutely brilliant that night, maybe they should take over the Friday night slot

I'm all for Jedward taking over the Friday night slot. They've got much better hair than Vinny's for a start.

Corsendonk

It wouldn't surprise me if VB comes back to a 4 day week. He seems to be struggling to get enough material for the 4 nights of serious debate without a weekly update on the death of the CelticTiger. If they stuck on a decent movie show like Moviedrome. they would get a better audience on Friday nights.

JonathanAnon

Hey guys did ye read this... I thought it was a joke but it's actually true..
Another case that it is truly who you know in this country..

Amanda Brunker to play Oxegen

It may look like something you’d read in disbelief on Broadsheet, but Sunday World journalist, novelist and sofa plugger Amanda Brunker plays at Oxegen this weekend. She is a late addition to the bill due to line-up changes (Jessie J has dropped out due to a broken foot and Alice Gold has been moved to the main stage as a result) and will appear on the Vodafone Stage at 2pm on Saturday........

After all, let’s be honest, Brunker was hardly going to say no when she was approached. No-one in her situation would. According to her Twitter, she has been working on tracks in the studio inbetween making lasagne. She also tells us to expect kicking dance music and covers for her first gig.

Seems she has shut down her own Twitter machine for the night on account of all the abuse she's getting.

Skid

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Hey guys did ye read this... I thought it was a joke but it's actually true..
Another case that it is truly who you know in this country..

Amanda Brunker to play Oxegen

It's a disgrace, whatever joke they are trying to make it's not funny.

It might end up like Daphne and Celeste at Reading, all over again ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnxies4Wtk

Lady Chatterton

I'm almost relieved that Vinny is going on his holidays.

JonathanAnon

MrsD007 wrote: »

I'm almost relieved that Vinny is going on his holidays.

What's happening.. I'm fighting with a coax cable to try and get my telly back working

dambarude

Ming needs a new shirt methinks...

Skid

JonathanAnon wrote: »

What's happening.. I'm fighting with a coax cable to try and get my telly back working

No idea what's going on with Vinny, but I'm developing a bit of a man crush on Hugh Grant, after watching him on Question Time talking a lot of sense about the phone hacking scandal. He's terrific

Lady Chatterton

JonathanAnon wrote: »

What's happening.. I'm fighting with a coax cable to try and get my telly back working

You're missing Aine Kerr, you'd want to hurry on an fix that auld cable

Oh_Noes

Ming's voice is much less annoying when he's bunged up with a cold as I'm presuming he is. He's quite lucky that he didn't actually use the Cannabis issue in his manifesto or he wouldn't have a leg to stand on at this stage.

Lady Chatterton

Skid wrote: »

No idea what's going on with Vinny, but I'm developing a bit of a man crush on Hugh Grant, after watching him on Question Time talking a lot of sense about the phone hacking scandal. He's terrific

F**k it, I meant to watch that :mad: :mad: :mad: Was it a good programme? Ah, I'm more into Colin Firth anyway

Sardonicat

MrsD007 wrote: »

You're missing Aine Kerr, you'd want to hurry on an fix that auld cable

MrsD, you FOO! You shoulda told 'em Cassie was back!

I love Paschal saying closing A&Es is not a political issue! :mad:

Oh_Noes

JonathanAnon wrote: »

What's happening.. I'm fighting with a coax cable to try and get my telly back working

Cassie got her bewbs out. You missed it...

Lady Chatterton

Sardonicat wrote: »

MrsD, you FOO! You shoulda told 'em Cassie was back!

I love Paschal saying closing A&Es is not a political issue! :mad:

Ah Sardy, it's Skid who is into Cassie. JA is a fan of Aine and Sarah

JonathanAnon

Got me coax fixed ... Aine ... my love..

EDIT: aw jaysus, cancelled out by that other left wing HATCHET..

Skid

MrsD007 wrote: »

F**k it, I meant to watch that :mad: :mad: :mad: Was it a good programme? Ah, I'm more into Colin Firth anyway

It was excellent, Hugh went toe to toe with Jon Gaunt, a smarmy columnist from The Sun, and wiped the floor with him.

Have a look on Youtube tomorrow for some clips.

Put it this way, Hugh would be a much better PrimeMinister in real life than he was in Love Actually.