Striking Out [RTÉ1]

brian_t

jezzer wrote: »

yes they would all such businesses have card acceptance capabilities in house..... but thats besides the point,...

It was a personal payment to the parents - nothing to do with their business.

eamonnq

brian_t wrote: »

It was a personal payment to the parents - nothing to do with their business.

So it was indeed fortunate that she had her chequebook with her.

brian_t

eamonnq wrote: »

So it was indeed fortunate that she had her chequebook with her.

Her wedding was coming up. Last minute payments wouldn't be unexpected and not all wedding expenses can be covered by card.

A lot of women don't feel safe carrying around cash.

BuilderPlumber

jezzer wrote: »

absolutely 100% well said, every damn evening i turn on the tv its some sort of reality sh1te, its mindless cheap trailer trash garbage that is cheap to make and appeals to the current crop of concentration lacking generation that we have become, and it is now a massive problem, some of my own family included, they cant actually concentrate on watching a good drama or film where you have to use your brain to work out characters and a storyline instead its easier to watch a few complete buffoons make idiots of themselves live on TV whilst checking facebook to see who posted a recent pic of their dinner, i know this sounds dramatic but i think its something the government needs to seriously look at.
At least RTE have made some attempts at drama, clean break like striking out was watchable, rebellion was watchable too but i too have issues with it, still, its an effort and i would rather see RTE spend the licence fee on giving some writers producers etc an opportunity to make something instead of giving someone like brezzy (and no offence to brezzy here, just using an example) air time to sit there and pretend hes an expert on music, or some illiterate airhead to sit in a house all day fighting over who broke wind, its horrific stuff, glad i'm not the only one who thinks so...

+1. I think that dramas like Clean Break, Rebellion and probably Striking Out all have potential and who knows what a second series could do with them. I'd love to see a series 6 of Love/Hate too and this series for 5 years brightened up our screens for winter Sunday nights.

You are far from being alone wrt this reality drivel. In fact I have to yet meet someone who likes it. People watch Big Brother because they think they will see a real fight or something. They will admit it is drivel. I would walk out of a room if people were watching this and similar.

All them bloody garden and house makeover programmes are more of the same. Taking the 4 you mention (celeb big brother, dancing with the stars, operation transformation, the voice) and others ranging from room to improve to house hunters in the sun to you're a star to glor tire and you have some woeful viewing.

Another most annoying thing is that people can actually become famous just because they were on big brother. The late Jade Goody I think was famous only because she was a contestant on that! In other words, a person does not have to have talent to become famous. All they have to do is agree to live in a house for a while.

The dramas are an effort being made for different stuff. The media has too much power and the government should tell the media to support other types of programmes besides reality shows. These woeful programmes get made over and over. Taking 4 examples on Irish channels:

The Voice of Ireland: might as well be known as You're a Star version 3 or Postars version 4. This tired drivel is one of a series of boyband manager dominated talent contests that have plagued our screens since 2002.

Dancing with the Stars: another poor concept to give work to RTE cronies and to waste our money. This is just The Voice of Ireland with dancing.

Glor Tire: The Voice/You're a Star in Irish with ex boyband idiots having a go singing pop songs and pretending it is country music.

Operation Transformation: media pandering to the fitness and diet industry who want to kill off Christmas as early as possible and depress us with more of the same. People losing weight instead of people singing and OT is just a diet version of You're a Star, etc.

These thing go on and on for years and are dragged out for weeks when they are on. Room to improve, Stetsons and stilettos, Dragon's den, The X factor and Masterchef are more examples of this rubbish.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

I totally agree. Reality TV might have been groundbreaking years ago, but now it's descended into 'lowest common denominator' rubbish. It seems no part of people's lives is now too mundane to be shared with the entire population - losing weight, choosing a wedding dress, extending the kitchen etc etc. It's all been turned into 'entertainment' for the masses. We've forgotten what a decent drama, documentary or chat show should look like.

It's bad enough to have commercial channels churning out this drivel non stop. But do RTE really have to try and compete? They're a public service broadcaster and pale imitations of BBC shows such as Strictly are really not what we should be paying a licence fee for.

brian_t

Jordy Mushy Sordidness wrote: »

I totally agree. Reality TV might have been groundbreaking years ago, but now it's descended into 'lowest common denominator' rubbish. It seems no part of people's lives is now too mundane to be shared with the entire population - losing weight, choosing a wedding dress, extending the kitchen etc etc. It's all been turned into 'entertainment' for the masses. We've forgotten what a decent drama, documentary or chat show should look like.

It's bad enough to have commercial channels churning out this drivel non stop. But do RTE really have to try and compete? They're a public service broadcaster and pale imitations of BBC shows such as Strictly are really not what we should be paying a licence fee for.

I agree about reality TV. But if the BBC can show them then why not RTE.

ted1

jezzer wrote: »

yes they would all such businesses have card acceptance capabilities in house..... but thats besides the point, i dont know too many women in their 30's in 2017 who carry around a cheque book in their handbag.....i'm pretty sure pennys dont accept cheques these days....

You'll find that most soliciters will have one to pay barristers , private investigators etc.

jezzer

brian_t wrote: »

It was a personal payment to the parents - nothing to do with their business.

it could have been made out to the business to pay the suppliers

c68zapdsm5i1ru

brian_t wrote: »

I agree about reality TV. But if the BBC can show them then why not RTE.

Because they do programmes like Masterchef, Bake Off and Strictly much better than RTE. For celebrity programmes like Strictly we simply don't have enough 'well known' people to make them interesting. And most of the contestants on Irish Masterchef and Bake Off (admittedly TV3 programmes, not RTE) wouldn't have even got a call back for the BBC versions.

jezzer

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

+1. I think that dramas like Clean Break, Rebellion and probably Striking Out all have potential and who knows what a second series could do with them. I'd love to see a series 6 of Love/Hate too and this series for 5 years brightened up our screens for winter Sunday nights.

You are far from being alone wrt this reality drivel. In fact I have to yet meet someone who likes it. People watch Big Brother because they think they will see a real fight or something. They will admit it is drivel. I would walk out of a room if people were watching this and similar.

All them bloody garden and house makeover programmes are more of the same. Taking the 4 you mention (celeb big brother, dancing with the stars, operation transformation, the voice) and others ranging from room to improve to house hunters in the sun to you're a star to glor tire and you have some woeful viewing.

Another most annoying thing is that people can actually become famous just because they were on big brother. The late Jade Goody I think was famous only because she was a contestant on that! In other words, a person does not have to have talent to become famous. All they have to do is agree to live in a house for a while.

The dramas are an effort being made for different stuff. The media has too much power and the government should tell the media to support other types of programmes besides reality shows. These woeful programmes get made over and over. Taking 4 examples on Irish channels:

The Voice of Ireland: might as well be known as You're a Star version 3 or Postars version 4. This tired drivel is one of a series of boyband manager dominated talent contests that have plagued our screens since 2002.

Dancing with the Stars: another poor concept to give work to RTE cronies and to waste our money. This is just The Voice of Ireland with dancing.

Glor Tire: The Voice/You're a Star in Irish with ex boyband idiots having a go singing pop songs and pretending it is country music.

Operation Transformation: media pandering to the fitness and diet industry who want to kill off Christmas as early as possible and depress us with more of the same. People losing weight instead of people singing and OT is just a diet version of You're a Star, etc.

These thing go on and on for years and are dragged out for weeks when they are on. Room to improve, Stetsons and stilettos, Dragon's den, The X factor and Masterchef are more examples of this rubbish.

i totally forgeot about all that other crap, room to improve and so on...dragons den, how is that crap still on tv i will never know, the apprentice, bill cullen rabbiting on about penny apples, give me a break...as for operation transformation, poor over weight fools being castigated half naked on a weighing scales, horrific stuff, the likes of x factor, how else would a buffoon like louis walsh get on tv, makes me sick.
A lot of the proplem in Ireland is that RTE are broke (doesnt stop them overpaying an over rated ryan tubridy) so they just rip formats from the uk and make a piss poor effort to replicate, we are being sold a pup every time

jezzer

ted1 wrote: »

You'll find that most soliciters will have one to pay barristers , private investigators etc.

via personal cheques? and claim back via expenses perhaps? :rolleyes:

BuilderPlumber

jezzer wrote: »

i totally forgeot about all that other crap, room to improve and so on...dragons den, how is that crap still on tv i will never know, the apprentice, bill cullen rabbiting on about penny apples, give me a break...as for operation transformation, poor over weight fools being castigated half naked on a weighing scales, horrific stuff, the likes of x factor, how else would a buffoon like louis walsh get on tv, makes me sick.
A lot of the proplem in Ireland is that RTE are broke (doesnt stop them overpaying an over rated ryan tubridy) so they just rip formats from the uk and make a piss poor effort to replicate, we are being sold a pup every time

All these programmes are desperate and not only that but they are nasty as well. Dragon's den is an example of how nasty this stuff can get. The people on Operation transformation having to appear half naked on a scales for the whole country to see is more of this nastiness.

The X factor, You're a star, the voice, etc. are all there to let Louis Walsh and his types onto our screens. Aspiring singers are of course exploited by these things and they are no good to them either. Vehicles for the likes of Louis Walsh is all they are.

RTE continuing to make all this drivel will not help them. At least, the dramas are always watchable and sometimes they are excellent. I believe a drama needs to get 2 seasons to really get going. For example, Love/Hate series one was good and solid but season 2 totally defined it and the plots of that season formed the basis for events that would happen right up until the end of season 5.

Series like Amber, Rebellion, Clean Break and Striking Out could have the potential to be continued too. The Charlie Haughey drama was good too. Maybe they are not as good as Love/Hate but they still were a good escape from all the usual reality garbage. What would be on RTE 1 if Striking Out was not on? Most likely Room to improve!

brian_t

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

What would be on RTE 1 if Striking Out was not on? Most likely Room to improve!

New series of Room to Improve starts on Sun 28th at 9.30pm.

BuilderPlumber

brian_t wrote: »

New series of Room to Improve starts on Sun 28th at 9.30pm.

Very easy to predict that! I remember it came on the week after Love/Hate ended one year too. And after Rebellion last year. Why do RTE keep making programmes like Room to improve that are jaded at this stage? They really don't care about what people think and will stick on drivel like this that is cheap to make so they can still continue to pay their overpaid presenters.

BuilderPlumber

brian_t wrote: »

I agree about reality TV. But if the BBC can show them then why not RTE.

All this reality TV is not good no matter where it comes from. RTE, BBC, TV3, ITV/UTV, Channel 4, other channels. All the same.

brian_t

According to the Indo this second episode pulled in an average audience of 544,600 on RTE1.

Dancing with the Stars Ireland got an average of 640,000.

Del.Monte

Watched the second episode tonight - patchy storyline but still quite watchable.

jezzer

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

All these programmes are desperate and not only that but they are nasty as well. Dragon's den is an example of how nasty this stuff can get. The people on Operation transformation having to appear half naked on a scales for the whole country to see is more of this nastiness.

The X factor, You're a star, the voice, etc. are all there to let Louis Walsh and his types onto our screens. Aspiring singers are of course exploited by these things and they are no good to them either. Vehicles for the likes of Louis Walsh is all they are.

RTE continuing to make all this drivel will not help them. At least, the dramas are always watchable and sometimes they are excellent. I believe a drama needs to get 2 seasons to really get going. For example, Love/Hate series one was good and solid but season 2 totally defined it and the plots of that season formed the basis for events that would happen right up until the end of season 5.

Series like Amber, Rebellion, Clean Break and Striking Out could have the potential to be continued too. The Charlie Haughey drama was good too. Maybe they are not as good as Love/Hate but they still were a good escape from all the usual reality garbage. What would be on RTE 1 if Striking Out was not on? Most likely Room to improve!

yes the haughey drama was very good plus it involved a bit of history which is good, i agree with what you say, where else would a gob****e like louis walsh get to carry on like he offers any value to this world...
as you say nastiness is a big part of it, degrading the contestants on x factor, constant bullying on big brother and laughing at half naked overweight people on operation transformation, all these shows do is provide a platofrm for the likes of kathryn thomas who wouldnt get a look in elsewhere all at the expense of foolish contestants whos only goal in life seems to get famous for the sake of being famous, its pathetic

Shurimgreat

I'd be very surprised if this mediocre drama (I used the term loosely) is renewed.

I'd love to know the reason RTE repeatedly give some of these supposedly "talented" actors and actresses top billing. Talent seems to have little to do with it.

Talent and RTE don't seem to mix very well.

Turfcutter

It is watchable, but let down by some basic enough weaknesses.
Firstly the research isn't great in certain areas. For example Tara keeps referring to the "company" when in law the term is always 'firm'.
A firm like the one she worked in is highly unlikely to operate out of glass towers like the commercial ones do.
It would be bonkers to think that a criminal client would be allowed wait alone for her in her office like Ray did.

Some of the dialogue in what should be key emotional scenes is very strained. If you missed the opening, you might have thought she was a little huffed with her fiance for forgetting a birthday, rather than finding him buried in some tart a week before the wedding. Or maybe D4 princesses take such seemingly devastating life events in their stride way better. A couple of handbags from BT will win her back.

The other silly bits are someone having their hen on a school night when they're expected on the court the next morning. Yer man being happy out mowing the lawn in the house he was being evicted from. The extreme coincidence that the same man happened to charge into the antique place at the same moment as the zonked out PI was in there.

I'm looking forward to episode 3.

BuilderPlumber

jezzer wrote: »

yes the haughey drama was very good plus it involved a bit of history which is good, i agree with what you say, where else would a gob****e like louis walsh get to carry on like he offers any value to this world...
as you say nastiness is a big part of it, degrading the contestants on x factor, constant bullying on big brother and laughing at half naked overweight people on operation transformation, all these shows do is provide a platofrm for the likes of kathryn thomas who wouldnt get a look in elsewhere all at the expense of foolish contestants whos only goal in life seems to get famous for the sake of being famous, its pathetic

The Haughey drama was good and provided something different. A similar one about the peace process might work too but it would need to be done in a way that would not be biased in favour of any given side.

The nastiness of the X factor where contestants are degraded is copied in the putdowns of dragon's den. The bullying in big brother is not only allowed but is encouraged. The operation transformation setup has left some contestants in tears too on more than 1 occasion. These woeful TV shows are all as bad as they get. Gerry Ryan was the original presenter of operation transformation: a man who ate to excess and was on drugs presenting a fitness show. Kathryn Thomas then took over as she needed to do something after a bout of travel sickness in some African country iirc prompted her to stop doing travel shows.

Will have a go at Striking Out later. The general consensus seems to be it is watchable anyway. It would be way better than the drivel mentioned above for sure.

jezzer

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

The Haughey drama was good and provided something different. A similar one about the peace process might work too but it would need to be done in a way that would not be biased in favour of any given side.

The nastiness of the X factor where contestants are degraded is copied in the putdowns of dragon's den. The bullying in big brother is not only allowed but is encouraged. The operation transformation setup has left some contestants in tears too on more than 1 occasion. These woeful TV shows are all as bad as they get. Gerry Ryan was the original presenter of operation transformation: a man who ate to excess and was on drugs presenting a fitness show. Kathryn Thomas then took over as she needed to do something after a bout of travel sickness in some African country iirc promoted her to stop doing travel shows.

Will have a go at Striking Out later. The general consensus seems to be it is watchable anyway. It would be way better than the drivel mentioned above for sure.

absolutely, stricking out isnt award winning stuff but its watchable and you have to engage your brain to some extent.... i always had to laugh at gerry ryan, an obese individual who ate to excess in the 4 seasons every day and had a drug problem standing there lording over foolish individuals in their underwear being embarrassed on national tv...there was something not quite right about that.... Kathryn Thomas as you say had to be facilitated, she must be fuming that crap the voice got the boot... these shows feed of the bullying and nastiness and turn them into a tv program, it disgusts me

jezzer

Turfcutter wrote: »

It is watchable, but let down by some basic enough weaknesses.
Firstly the research isn't great in certain areas. For example Tara keeps referring to the "company" when in law the term is always 'firm'.
A firm like the one she worked in is highly unlikely to operate out of glass towers like the commercial ones do.
It would be bonkers to think that a criminal client would be allowed wait alone for her in her office like Ray did.

Some of the dialogue in what should be key emotional scenes is very strained. If you missed the opening, you might have thought she was a little huffed with her fiance for forgetting a birthday, rather than finding him buried in some tart a week before the wedding. Or maybe D4 princesses take such seemingly devastating life events in their stride way better. A couple of handbags from BT will win her back.

The other silly bits are someone having their hen on a school night when they're expected on the court the next morning. Yer man being happy out mowing the lawn in the house he was being evicted from. The extreme coincidence that the same man happened to charge into the antique place at the same moment as the zonked out PI was in there.

I'm looking forward to episode 3.

all good points in fairness and certainly the worst for me was having the hen on a school night, who the heck does that! its right up there with her carrying around a cheque book and never would a big law firm allow a hoodlum sit in an office covered in confidential info....also, she left the hen party in a resturant which was still open and busy so it could have been no more than 11pm, she would have been back at the apartment at no later than half 11 after that she went roaming the streets until she went to the office in the mornign which was busy so it would be no earlier than 7 am, where in the heck did she go walking for the guts of 7 hours? out to wicklow and back?

jezzer

Shurimgreat wrote: »

I'd be very surprised if this mediocre drama (I used the term loosely) is renewed.

I'd love to know the reason RTE repeatedly give some of these supposedly "talented" actors and actresses top billing. Talent seems to have little to do with it.

Talent and RTE don't seem to mix very well.

well with all due respect to hubermans, we all know that if she wasnt brian o driscolls wife she would be one of the many unknowns in irish acting circles, thats not a dig just the truth...shes not a terrible actor, possibly a step above fair city but shes certainly not a stand out by a long shot...

Shurimgreat

Turfcutter wrote: »

It is watchable, but let down by some basic enough weaknesses.
Firstly the research isn't great in certain areas. For example Tara keeps referring to the "company" when in law the term is always 'firm'.
A firm like the one she worked in is highly unlikely to operate out of glass towers like the commercial ones do.
It would be bonkers to think that a criminal client would be allowed wait alone for her in her office like Ray did.

Some of the dialogue in what should be key emotional scenes is very strained. If you missed the opening, you might have thought she was a little huffed with her fiance for forgetting a birthday, rather than finding him buried in some tart a week before the wedding. Or maybe D4 princesses take such seemingly devastating life events in their stride way better. A couple of handbags from BT will win her back.

The other silly bits are someone having their hen on a school night when they're expected on the court the next morning. Yer man being happy out mowing the lawn in the house he was being evicted from. The extreme coincidence that the same man happened to charge into the antique place at the same moment as the zonked out PI was in there.

I'm looking forward to episode 3.

Not to mention reading the will out at the funeral. Who does this, ever?

I think the writers miss the point that you can have high quality drama without dispensing with realistic scenarios.

Instead they have turned the program into a cartoon with cartoon characters and scenarios. They deserve any criticism coming their way.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

jezzer wrote: »

well with all due respect to hubermans, we all know that if she wasnt brian o driscolls wife she would be one of the many unknowns in irish acting circles, thats not a dig just the truth...shes not a terrible actor, possibly a step above fair city but shes certainly not a stand out by a long shot...

I agree. She's a good 'light comic' actor, but I really don't think she's the right person to carry a serious legal drama. She's certainly not a crap actor by any means, and she looks beautiful, but I don't think she brings any real depth to the role. She's not aided by a weak, clichéd script but I think there are actors out there who would suit the role better and could do with a break.

ligerdub

She's 4 out of 10 actor at best.

ligerdub

Shurimgreat wrote: »

I'd be very surprised if this mediocre drama (I used the term loosely) is renewed.

I'd be surprised if it isn't, unless the writers have written it specifically for one series.

So long as the writer or main character are women it stays on, simple as. It's the same as Can't Cope, Won't Cope.

jezzer

Shurimgreat wrote: »

Not to mention reading the will out at the funeral. Who does this, ever?

I think the writers miss the point that you can have high quality drama without dispensing with realistic scenarios.

Instead they have turned the program into a cartoon with cartoon characters and scenarios. They deserve any criticism coming their way.

good call on the reading of the will, totally absurd

jezzer

Jordy Mushy Sordidness wrote: »

I agree. She's a good 'light comic' actor, but I really don't think she's the right person to carry a serious legal drama. She's certainly not a crap actor by any means, and she looks beautiful, but I don't think she brings any real depth to the role. She's not aided by a weak, clichéd script but I think there are actors out there who would suit the role better and could do with a break.

i totally agree, she does appear to have a comedic streak but certainly doesnt have the depth for this role. I would have loved to have seen Ruth Bradley in that role, I think she would have played a blinder

Del.Monte

Jordy Mushy Sordidness wrote: »

I agree. She's a good 'light comic' actor, but I really don't think she's the right person to carry a serious legal drama. She's certainly not a crap actor by any means, and she looks beautiful, but I don't think she brings any real depth to the role. She's not aided by a weak, clichéd script but I think there are actors out there who would suit the role better and could do with a break.

"Striking Out" is hardly a serious legal drama - more like a legal version of Ballykissangel. Anyway, I don't get all the Amy Huberman hate on this thread...

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Del.Monte wrote: »

"Striking Out" is hardly a serious legal drama - more like a legal version of Ballykissangel. Anyway, I don't get all the Amy Huberman hate on this thread...

Hate? Criticising someone's acting technique or suitability for a role is not 'hating someone'.

vkid

Equally a lot of people don't get the amount of push she gets in the mainstream Irish media when she is really not that great as an actress. If she was that good she would have made it in the UK or the us... But that's just my opiniob

walshb

ligerdub wrote: »

She's 4 out of 10 actor at best.

She just doesn't strike me as an actor. Maybe a pretty face. Suited to modelling. I can't see an actor. There just doesn't seem to be any realness about her.

jezzer

Del.Monte wrote: »

"Striking Out" is hardly a serious legal drama - more like a legal version of Ballykissangel. Anyway, I don't get all the Amy Huberman hate on this thread...

theres no hate, dont try and twist it, people are just offering their realistic views of her acting ability which is mediocre, not terrible but not brilliant, as another poster said if she was that good she would have made it in the Uk at the very least but lets call a spade a spade here, if she wasnt married to the most famous irish rugby player ever she would be just one of the many thousands of unknown irish actors out there, for example, she started out in on home ground with dominique mcelligott, both of them would be around the same standard of acting, mcelligott possible a bit better, however most people are going to say Dominique who? whilst Hubermans is completely pumped up by the Irish media, purely because she married brian o driscoll, that is a simple fact not a criticism..

jezzer

Just heard on the radio there is a new reality show based on jobstown on tv3.... come on to eff, has the whole traveler/low socio-economic background thing not been flogged to death already? talk about a new low.... no disrespect to the people of jobstwon and the way they live but why would anybody want to watch them on tv just so they can sit there and say oh isnt that shocking how do they live like that etc....

eamonnq

jezzer wrote: »

Just heard on the radio there is a new reality show based on jobstown on tv3.... come on to eff, has the whole traveler/low socio-economic background thing not been flogged to death already? talk about a new low.... no disrespect to the people of jobstwon and the way they live but why would anybody want to watch them on tv just so they can sit there and say oh isnt that shocking how do they live like that etc....

What way do they live ?

jezzer

eamonnq wrote: »

What way do they live ?

you know what I mean, the program wont be focused on the guy that gets up every day and goes to work or the girl who goes out to college every day or the woman who minds her kids, its going to be focused on the little gurriers and their anti social behavior just so people can watch it and be appalled....

eamonnq

jezzer wrote: »

you know what I mean, the program wont be focused on the guy that gets up every day and goes to work or the girl who goes out to college every day or the woman who minds her kids, its going to be focused on the little gurriers and their anti social behavior just so people can watch it and be appalled....

or the MMA fighter who opened his own gym ? Or the guy who runs his own scaffolding business ?

jezzer

eamonnq wrote: »

or the MMA fighter who opened his own gym ? Or the guy who runs his own scaffolding business ?

i dont think it should matter where the hooligan hoolahan comes from, its like if your from jobstown and you make something of yourself its like a miracle or something

Del.Monte

jezzer wrote: »

theres no hate, dont try and twist it, people are just offering their realistic views of her acting ability which is mediocre, not terrible but not brilliant, as another poster said if she was that good she would have made it in the Uk at the very least but lets call a spade a spade here, if she wasnt married to the most famous irish rugby player ever she would be just one of the many thousands of unknown irish actors out there, for example, she started out in on home ground with dominique mcelligott, both of them would be around the same standard of acting, mcelligott possible a bit better, however most people are going to say Dominique who? whilst Hubermans is completely pumped up by the Irish media, purely because she married brian o driscoll, that is a simple fact not a criticism..

You really should have read your own diatribe before posting. Anyway, if it makes you happy you can substitute dislike for hate in my earlier post.

bazermc

The Talking Bread wrote: »

"The World"............. seriously!!! That's the name of a paper you would see in bloody Superman or Sponge bob Squarepants! !!!!! This is a show I will have to watch to hate! I work as a trainee solicitor so it makes it even more cringe worthy and cliché driven!!

How does the professional indemnity insurance premium Tara received of 20k euro compare with reality?

eamonnq

jezzer wrote: »

i dont think it should matter where the hooligan hoolahan comes from, its like if your from jobstown and you make something of yourself its like a miracle or something

True, but it is nice to see that they are at least not 'totally' focusing on the 'bad' bits, although I get the feeling there may be plenty of that included somehow.

jezzer

eamonnq wrote: »

True, but it is nice to see that they are at least not 'totally' focusing on the 'bad' bits, although I get the feeling there may be plenty of that included somehow.

fair point, its good its not all just focusing on the bad bits but what they are really doing is treating the people of jobstown like performing circus animals

jezzer

Del.Monte wrote: »

You really should have read your own diatribe before posting. Anyway, if it makes you happy you can substitute dislike for hate in my earlier post.

how does critiquing someones acting ability as mediocre show hate? perhaps you are a pal of Hubermans and thats fair enough if you feel the need to defend her but dont come on here trying to twist my words and opinion as hate :mad:

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Del.Monte wrote: »

You really should have read your own diatribe before posting. Anyway, if it makes you happy you can substitute dislike for hate in my earlier post.

I don't think anyone on here has made personal comments against Amy Huberman. Any negative comments have been about her strength as an actress, and whether her celebrity status has given her acting career a boost it otherwise wouldn't have.

I know a number of people who've met Amy and will attest to the fact that she's a very nice person. It doesn't stop me from questioning whether she is the best actress to take the lead role in a prime time Sunday evening drama on our national broadcasting station. I really liked her as Daisy in The Clinic. I thought she suited that role. I've seen her in a couple of other things (light comedic type roles as I said before) and thought she was fine.
But I, personally, don't think she is the best choice for the lead role in Striking Out. It's a pretty weak script, and it needs a very strong actress to bring any real depth or nuance to the role.

jezzer

Jordy Mushy Sordidness wrote: »

I don't think anyone on here has made personal comments against Amy Huberman. Any negative comments have been about her strength as an actress, and whether her celebrity status has given her acting career a boost it otherwise wouldn't have.

I know a number of people who've met Amy and will attest to the fact that she's a very nice person. It doesn't stop me from questioning whether she is the best actress to take the lead role in a prime time Sunday evening drama on our national broadcasting station. I really liked her as Daisy in The Clinic. I thought she suited that role. I've seen her in a couple of other things (light comedic type roles as I said before) and thought she was fine.
But I, personally, don't think she is the best choice for the lead role in Striking Out. It's a pretty weak script, and it needs a very strong actress to bring any real depth or nuance to the role.

very well said

Hippo

This thread certainly moved OT fairly successfully!

Reality TV is a whole other debate. If you're going to make drama programmes, then at least try and make decent ones.

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BettePorter wrote: »

Batchelors walk did it well tho. Lots of soft focus Dublin but much more realistic.

Batchelors Walk was in a different league to Striking Out.

jezzer

Jordy Mushy Sordidness wrote: »

Batchelors Walk was in a different league to Striking Out.

ah bachelors walk, arguably the best things ever shown on RTE