The Centre RTE March 24th

celtic tiger 2011

Is anybody going to be watching The Centre? . Katherine Lynch's new sitcom.

brian_t

JP Liz V1

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

Is anybody going to be watching The Centre? . Katherine Lynch's new sitcom.

I'm sure I saw some of the folks from ROT's skits and the Apres Match fella also in the RTE ad for it so not just Katherine Lynch

brian_t

Katherine Lynch and Jennifer Maguire will be on The Saturday Night Show.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2014/0321/603686-line-up-for-the-saturday-night-show-revealed/

Duggie2012

the trailer looks awful, might give it a look but i wouldn't hold out any hopes for this one.

Lisha

I'm a bit speechless, the centre was so bad it was good.

le la rat

Does anybody within RTE preview these shows. How was that let air?

gazzer

The main character (the 'murderess')was very funny and had some great one liners but the other characters were pretty bad and I am so over Bernie Walsh.

celtic tiger 2011

What hell was that. I would blame Katherine Lynch for this abomination of a comedy , but it seems she has taken herself out of the firing line as she didn't write it. It seems it was written by 2 guys , but its definitely written from a females view of the world , so I am guessing these guys must be gay. The humour is one dimensional and only women could find it funny as its is based on a superbitch, all the other characters almost seem incidental .

Kerrydude1981

I think RTE should stop using the line "Monday night is comedy night"

Should have stopped making these kind of shows after The Cassidy's got cut after a few episodes

jane82

I thought it was fairly reasonable. Good few laughs in it. The sanitary pad emptying the tea in two dunks line was hilarious.
I dont get why some people just watch Irish comedies to get outraged.

celtic tiger 2011

jane82 wrote: »

I thought it was fairly reasonable. Good few laughs in it. The sanitary pad emptying the tea in two dunks line was hilarious.
I dont get why some people just watch Irish comedies to get outraged.

The reason people get so outraged with Irish comedies, particularly the one's produced by Rte is because they are dire. We the public fund the station, and we have a right to demand a return for our licence fee, they are also funded by advertising so they have no excuse for budget limits .

As a whole RTE produces poor quality television . It's best programmes are imported . Its news coverage is dreadful, seldom focuses on international news and instead focuses on misery porn,the recession, corrupt politicians etc .It's documentaries focus solely on social issues such as young people in negative equity, drug addiction , suicide, paedophile priests etc .

In comparison to the British stations it is very negative and depressing to watch. Is it any wonder that people are depressed when all they have to watch is RTE.

jane82

If you have internet and are only able to watch rte I wouldnt blame your depression on the national broadcaster.
The walshes, the centre and sometimes (although its hit and miss lately) republic of telly are decent enough if you ask me.
Naked camera was one of the funniest things Ive ever seen. Hardy bucks was great.
Not too bad if you ask me. Im quite proud of Irish comedy on rte.

zoobizoo

For €150 a year.... or €3 a week for my tv license, I'm happy enough with getting some good and some bad tv shows as well as radio news, sport and RTE Player. Overall, I probably watch more RTE than any other station.

The Irish stations don;t have the resources to produce what the BBC produce.

jane82

What exactly do the bbc produce? Id rather rte.
English comedy hasnt been great in a long time.

humanji

I thought it was a bit of a travesty. Some possibly good ideas, but they were hidden behind a load of awful stereotypes and very old jokes and clichés.

celtic tiger 2011

humanji wrote: »

I thought it was a bit of a travesty. Some possibly good ideas, but they were hidden behind a load of awful stereotypes and very old jokes and clichés.

It was a case of throwing as much **** at the wall, as you can in 30 minutes and hoping some of it sticks. I hope people ring up Joe Duffy to complain about this show. Who wrote it anyway , it wasn't Katherine Lynch

Birneybau

jane82 wrote: »

What exactly do the bbc produce? Id rather rte.
English comedy hasnt been great in a long time.

Really? :eek:

fisgon

jane82 wrote: »

I thought it was fairly reasonable. Good few laughs in it. The sanitary pad emptying the tea in two dunks line was hilarious.
I dont get why some people just watch Irish comedies to get outraged.

Exactly. There are people on Boards just waiting for something Irish just so they can slag it off. They don't even begin to give it a chance.

In fairness, The Centre wasn't great, but it wasn't the travesty people are saying, and it is only the first ep. I certainly laughed out loud a half dozen times, and I liked the Kathleen Lynch cameos.

Also, enjoyed discovering Yasmine Akram, had never heard of her before, Irish actress and stand up, unfeasibly hot, funny, thought she brought the thing to life. (check out some of her stuff on Youtube, especially her Colin Farrell, which is pretty funny... "Bernie, leggit, it's the Guards!...")

celtic tiger 2011

fisgon wrote: »

Exactly. There are people on Boards just waiting for something Irish just so they can slag it off. They don't even begin to give it a chance.

In fairness, The Centre wasn't great, but it wasn't the travesty people are saying, and it is only the first ep. I certainly laughed out loud a half dozen times, and I liked the Kathleen Lynch cameos.

Also, enjoyed discovering Yasmine Akram, had never heard of her before, Irish actress and stand up, unfeasibly hot, funny, thought she brought the thing to life. (check out some of her stuff on Youtube, especially her Colin Farrell, which is pretty funny... "Bernie, leggit, it's the Guards!...")

Just because she is hot doesn't make her funny . Infact hot women are never funny or interesting , they are usually vapid and souless, they never develop any personality or character because things come to easy for them.

mikom

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

Just because she is hot doesn't make her funny . Infact hot women are never funny or interesting , they are usually vapid and souless, they never develop any personality or character because things come to easy for them.

Scan, tbh, I'd say you'd argue with your toenails.

jane82

Birneybau wrote: »

Really? :eek:

Come on then. This year what truely great comedy have the bbc come Up with?

Birneybau

jane82 wrote: »

Come on then. This year what truely great comedy have the bbc come Up with?

"Inside No. 9" for one, "House of fools" if you like Vic and Bob another.

Usually high quality with the likes of "Q.I.".

There has probably never been anything on the BBC that has been worse than RTE productions. Ever!

humanji

fisgon wrote: »

Exactly. There are people on Boards just waiting for something Irish just so they can slag it off. They don't even begin to give it a chance.

And there's plenty who will defend the indefensible. The show was a travesty. The concept has plenty of potential but they blew it, instead choosing to go for rehashed stereotypes and jokes. There's nothing fresh about any of the characters and the only humour came from one characters insults. And even then, there were more misses than hits.

Ireland has an insane amount of comedic talent and it's systematically ignored in favour of giving the RTE canteen regulars and their friends something to do instead.

jane82 wrote: »

Come on then. This year what truely great comedy have the bbc come Up with?

BBC have to come out with a truly great comedy, but RTE don't have to be held to any sort of standard?

Lukehandypants

I suspect RTÉ maybe in some deep poo poo about this show and its only after the first episode, many lgbt writers online are calling the show transphobic, racist and anti traveller.

http://theoutmost.com/opinion/trouble-rte-2s-centre/


Have a search on Twitter.

I have a funny feeling the show may not even get its full season and be pulled after a few episodes.

jane82

The worse thing to come out of the internet is people losing the skill to laugh at themselves.
Everyone gets outraged at something different everyday.

Lukehandypants

jane82 wrote: »

The worse thing to come out of the internet is people losing the skill to laugh at themselves.
Everyone gets outraged at something different everyday.

And that's the type of insensitivity that really winds the lgbt community up.

jane82

Lukehandypants wrote: »

And that's the type of insensitivity that really winds the lgbt community up.

But Im sure if a gang of really believeable drag queens were sitting around with one with hairy feet theyd slag her too.

gazzer

Yasmine Akram was the best thing about the show. She had some great one liners. Loved the fart scene

Lukehandypants

jane82 wrote: »

But Im sure if a gang of really believeable drag queens were sitting around with one with hairy feet theyd slag her too.

For a start the person In the show is supposed to be a preop transexual not a drag queen they are two completely different things.
Drag queens are there to entertain where as a trans person does not choose to be trans it's just who they are the same way a gay person is gay or a straight person is straight.

fisgon

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

Just because she is hot doesn't make her funny . Infact hot women are never funny or interesting , they are usually vapid and souless, they never develop any personality or character because things come to easy for them.

Do you really believe this, or are you just trollling? Check out Jennifer Lawrence's clips on Youtube, funny girl, quirky sense of humour, gorgeous. Megan Fox too has a sense of humour.

Also I never said that she was funny because she was hot. I said that she was funny and hot. There's a difference. And I thought she was very good in this.

celtic tiger 2011

mikom wrote: »

Scan, tbh, I'd say you'd argue with your toenails.

Are you a hot woman by any chance?

jane82

Lukehandypants wrote: »

For a start the person In the show is supposed to be a preop transexual not a drag queen they are two completely different things.
Drag queens are there to entertain where as a trans person does not choose to be trans it's just who they are the same way a gay person is gay or a straight person is straight.

You see theres something about the transgender community Id have never learned were it not for this show.

Lukehandypants

jane82 wrote: »

You see theres something about the transgender community Id have never learned were it not for this show.

Nah u just learned that off me, the show just reinforced the stereotypes that have taken root in your head.

jane82

Lukehandypants wrote: »

Nah u just learned that off me, the show just reinforced the stereotypes that have taken root in your head.

There is no stereotype in my head. There are believeable looking transgenders and non believeable.
This is a non believeable one. She doesnt even shave her feet.
If they had a really womany looking one in the show as well would there still be offence?

Lukehandypants

jane82 wrote: »

There is no stereotype in my head. There are believeable looking transgenders and non believeable.
This is a non believeable one. She doesnt even shave her feet.
If they had a really womany looking one in the show as well would there still be offence?

Why would a person who wants to become a woman not shave her chest or legs or feet?
Kinda defeats the point of it really.

There is a offence because because the trans character is the butt of so many jokes from the other characters, such as


“Either you’re trying to regurgitate a coconut, or that’s an Adam’s apple I see.”

“Tip for you, bro… If you’re wearing open-toed sandals, shave your little piggies.”

“Hey Mrs. Doubtfire.”

“You look like you’ve been vandalised.”

“Your eyebrows, what did you draw them on with? An etch-a-sketch?”

So it would seem the only reason the trans character is there is to be the butt of some ****ty jokes.

jane82

Yes a really bad murderer said them things. She said mean things to everyone. Should they have had the baddy say nice things to everyone?
Should we just not have transgenders on tv?
If you ever watched wrestling as a kid you would probably understand. Its a form of trolling to get everybody against you. Fair city do it by making the people they want the public to hate to be real annoying smarmy people like Louis Gleeson.
By the end of the series she will get her comeuppance and every minority group represented here will shout hooray.
Its brave writing in this day and age if you ask me.

Lukehandypants

jane82 wrote: »

Yes a really bad murderer said them things. She said mean things to everyone. Should they have had the baddy say nice things to everyone?
Should we just not have transgenders on tv?
If you ever watched wrestling as a kid you would probably understand. Its a form of trolling to get everybody against you. Fair city do it by making the people they want the public to hate to be real annoying smarmy people like Louis Gleeson.
By the end of the series she will get her comeuppance and every minority group represented here will shout hooray.
Its brave writing in this day and age if you ask me.

Fair enough believe that if u like, but maybe u should read all the stuff written about it by members of the lgbt community.

jane82

Lukehandypants wrote: »

Fair enough believe that if u like, but maybe u should read all the stuff written about it by members of the lgbt community.

The same community that were outraged the patricks day parade wouldnt change their rules regarding banners to allow them push a political anti police agenda?

celtic tiger 2011

Lukehandypants wrote: »

I suspect RTÉ maybe in some deep poo poo about this show and its only after the first episode, many lgbt writers online are calling the show transphobic, racist and anti traveller.

http://theoutmost.com/opinion/trouble-rte-2s-centre/


Have a search on Twitter.

I have a funny feeling the show may not even get its full season and be pulled after a few episodes.

Typical this country is going under the takeover of offshore globalists bankers such as The Rokerfellers, Rothschilds, Goldman Sachs, The British Royal Family etc and all anyone is discussing is how this comedy could be perceived as being homophobic, racist etc . Do you know what , who gives a **** .

humanji

jane82 wrote: »

The same community that were outraged the patricks day parade wouldnt change their rules regarding banners to allow them push a political anti police agenda?

It's actually quite a large and diverse community with different opinions on different topics. And what the people complaining about this were saying was that it's difficult for transgendered people to be accepted by everyone and that the national broadcaster making a mockery of them isn't helping.

celtic tiger 2011

Lukehandypants wrote: »

And that's the type of insensitivity that really winds the lgbt community up.

If we paid heed to all these minority groups feelings , then no comedy would ever be written , its called satire. I am not saying that it was good satire , but it was a social a commentary or a gross exageration of sterotypes. Some people found it funny I didnt, but that doesn;t give any minority group the right to dictate how they are portrayed on television. Its freedom of speech , do we want to go down the political correctness route of America where any body who critcises Obama is racist because that's where we are heading if we allow vested interests to dictate our television.

celtic tiger 2011

humanji wrote: »

It's actually quite a large and diverse community with different opinions on different topics. And what the people complaining about this were saying was that it's difficult for transgendered people to be accepted by everyone and that the national broadcaster making a mockery of them isn't helping.

And what about the Dublin skangers , its difficult for them to be accepted by wider society , without Damo and Ivor portraying them as lazy, stupid, criminal thugs . Are they not a minority disadvantaged class or do they not count cause they are poor and have no interest group to represent them.

humanji

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

And what about the Dublin skangers , its difficult for them to be accepted by wider society , without Damo and Ivor portraying them as lazy, stupid, criminal thugs . Are they not a minority disadvantaged class or do they not count cause they are poor and have no interest group to represent them.

Are they born that way?

Links234

I've had more than a few friends ranting about this on facebook, you can probably guess why, so I had to have a look at it myself to see what all the fuss was about. You know what I came away with? Whatever about it being 'offensive' the show commits the ultimate crime a comedy show can commit, and that's being completely unfunny. It's just regurgitating incredible lazy stereotypes, and little else. Transgender people are annoyed, because it presents a horrible charicature of a trans person that is nothing but there to be ridiculed, and all the jokes surrounding this character just boil down to "haha, you're really manly"... eg, lazy writing and boring, unfunny 'jokes' that we've heard way too often.

Just to serve as a point of reference, here's an example of an actual transgender person, talking about a semi-related topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P10XtpbMwVg

AnonoBoy

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

It seems it was written by 2 guys , but its definitely written from a females view of the world , so I am guessing these guys must be gay.

It was written by a guy and a girl.

http://www.babycow.co.uk/?portfolio=the-centre

You'd expect a better standard from Baby Cow but there you go.

Lady Chatterton

Please report posts you find offensive or have an issue with - don't reply or quote them.

Lets get back to discussing 'The Centre'.

humanji

AnonoBoy wrote: »

It was written by a guy and a girl.

http://www.babycow.co.uk/?portfolio=the-centre

You'd expect a better standard from Baby Cow but there you go.

That is actually unbelievable. I suppose all the shows do have different writers, but still, that's insane that this came out of that stable.

celtic tiger 2011

AnonoBoy wrote: »

It was written by a guy and a girl.

http://www.babycow.co.uk/?portfolio=the-centre

You'd expect a better standard from Baby Cow but there you go.

So Katherine Lynch had no part in the script even her own character ?. I find that hard to believe as the press were talking her up as if it was her show.

AnonoBoy

humanji wrote: »

That is actually unbelievable. I suppose all the shows do have different writers, but still, that's insane that this came out of that stable.

It is surprising alright but there you go.

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

So Katherine Lynch had no part in the script even her own character ?. I find that hard to believe as the press were talking her up as if it was her show.

I have no idea, I'm just going off who's listed as writer on the Baby Cow website.

She could have had a lot of input into her character and still not be listed as a writer though.

The press get the wrong end of the stick on most things though so who knows?

sok2005

That episode was an insult to the intelligence of Irish people, the days when you can get away with such bad humour and insulting minority groups for sh*ts and giggles are long gone. It's like something written decades ago, humour is a lot smarter now and people won't put up with such nonsense. An absolute shambles of a show I presume if that's what they give us as a pilot.