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RIP thread for people involved in TV

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    #452
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Gary Rhoades best known for masterchef with his spiky moused hair has died at 59.


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    #453
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,243 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Gary Rhoades best known for masterchef with his spiky moused hair has died at 59.

    TV chef Gary Rhodes dies aged 59

    RIP
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    #454
    FrancieBrady
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    Muiris MacConghail.
    Introduced Irish TV audiences to investigative journalism with the generally excellent 7 Days. Father of Fiach, former Abbey Theatre head honcho.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/1126/1095185-muiris-macconghail/


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    #455
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Jonathan Miller - has died at 85 (basically the 1960s satire boom and so much else)


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    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 68,751 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Jonathan Miller - has died at 85 (basically the 1960s satire boom and so much else)

    A huge brain. RIP.


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    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 18,205 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Add Clive James to the list, aged 80

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #458
    ohnonotgmail
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    silverharp wrote: »
    Add Clive James to the list, aged 80

    margarita pracatan will be devasted.


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    #459
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,510 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    This quote from Clive James stuck in my memory, think it was from a review of The West Wing... from a man whose sense of humor was exquisite:
    "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #460
    dubstarr
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    Clive James has died


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    #461
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Ah jasus now that's a bad one :(

    A brilliant funny mind - reviews, novels, poetry and of course on TV

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eiq2KfUCSE


    His travelogue series "Postcards From...." seemed hugely glamorous at the time. Mixing culture and jokes.


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    #462
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,559 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Loved Clive James.


    He had a great voice and gave us the masterpiece of Japanese TV Endurance.


    RIP.


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    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Clive was a brilliant writer and never better than when writing about Television.

    He was always worth watching, often unmissable

    I must dig out some of his books again. RIP.


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    Skid X wrote: »
    Clive was a brilliant writer and never better than when writing about Television.

    He was always worth watching, often unmissable

    I must dig out some of his books again. RIP.

    Unreliable memoirs is one of the best books I have read (and I ain’t a young fella, so I’ve read a lot) and it’s one of the handful that I have literally “laughed out loud” about. I’ve got it out to re-read and can’t wait to open it up later tonight. A truly wonderful book full of anecdotes of his youth. His telling of the dunny man, the cart made up of many joined together little pram carts, green flash; so many hilarious moments

    RIP Clive


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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Jonathan Miller - has died at 85 (basically the 1960s satire boom and so much else)

    Plus the most amazing and ground breaking series “The Body in Question”, which culminated in (what I think was) the first post mortem shown on TV. Sounds ghoulish but really wasn’t. A polymath of a man. RIP


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    AwaitYourReply
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Muiris MacConghail.
    Introduced Irish TV audiences to investigative journalism with the generally excellent 7 Days. Father of Fiach, former Abbey Theatre head honcho.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/1126/1095185-muiris-macconghail/

    I think a young Bill O'Herlihy got his big TV break courtesy of Muiris MacConghail's: "Seven Days" current affairs programme on RTÉ tv back in the 1960's. O'Herlihy went on to anchor many big sports event broadcasts at the station shortly thereafter and sadly passed away in 2015 about one year after it exited from RTÉ's soccer coverage after many years.


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    odyssey06
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Plus the most amazing and ground breaking series “The Body in Question”, which culminated in (what I think was) the first post mortem shown on TV. Sounds ghoulish but really wasn’t. A polymath of a man. RIP

    I was listening to a BBC radio drama about the start of the National Theatre in England. Jonathan Miller didn't appear in it, but he was name checked by Laurence Olivier as a director.

    A man of many talents.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,413 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Shelley Morrison, who played Rosario on the first run of Will & Grace, has died at the age of 83. RIP.


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    dubstarr
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Shelley Morrison, who played Rosario on the first run of Will & Grace, has died at the age of 83. RIP.

    Her and Karen made that show.They where great together


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    ohnonotgmail
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    dubstarr wrote: »
    Her and Karen made that show.They where great together

    absolutely. the insults they traded were genius


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    JP Liz V1
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Shelley Morrison, who played Rosario on the first run of Will & Grace, has died at the age of 83. RIP.

    I thought she was dead already when Rosie was not brought back for the revival reboot :o RIP
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    ohnonotgmail
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    I thought she was dead already when Rosie was not brought back for the revival reboot :o RIP

    No she had just retired.


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    Skerries
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    D.C. Fontana female writer for Star Trek dies at 80

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/d-c-fontana-who-helped-shape-star-trek-its-first-n1095211?cid=public-rss_20191204
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    JP Liz V1
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    dark crystal wrote: »
    Broadway, film & TV actor Ron Liebman has died aged 82.

    Best known for playing Roy Cohn in the Broadway production of 'Angels in America', in Norma-Rae with Sally Field and most recently for playing Rachel Green's father in the TV show Friends

    RIP
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    #475
    RobertFoster
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    Ron Leibman, the actor who played Rachel's dad in Friends, has died aged 82.


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    #476
    FarmerBrowne
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    RobertFoster wrote: »
    Ron Leibman, the actor who played Rachel's dad in Friends, has died aged 82.

    You thugged on my catheter.


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    peteeeed
    Registered Users Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Caroll Spinney, original Big Bird puppeteer dies at 85

    https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/12/caroll-spinney-sesame-street-death/


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    JP Liz V1
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    René Auberjonois dead at 79

    RIP
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    #479
    GerardKeating
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    René Auberjonois dead at 79

    RIP

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ren-auberjonois-dead-star-trek-benson-actor-dies-at-79-1260677


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    #480
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,989 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    René Auberjonois dead at 79

    RIP

    The absolutely brilliant episode of Frasier he was guest star in was only on the other day. It was much better than standard sitcom stuff, an awful lot of heart and emotion it. He had such a friendly face too.

    RIP.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #481
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,509 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I've been rewatching Avatar in the last few weeks. He played two different characters just a few episodes apart. Brilliant actor, distinctive voice and a huge loss. RIP


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