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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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    #6872
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Gen.Zhukov wrote: »
    Stones, Slane, 82 levels :pac:

    I wasn't even born then... :(


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    #6873
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I am now forcing myself to watch on the player (if the narrator initials are TF oh F)

    No he's the voiceover ...


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    #6874
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Can guarantee we're gonna get some shows on 'new parenthood' on account of a couple of RTE presenters (and politicians) are currently awaiting their first sprogs.

    IF we're lucky, it will go on the RTE player to die...

    If not, it will either be RTE 2, or a prime time slot.

    RTE have a new show where Enda Kenny travels around IReland... Jesus Ch**t... what's next, 'Bertie's Bowls' aka a cooking show with Bertie Ahern?

    Depends how much dirt the presenters have on the heads of RTE: none, maybe be on the Player for a week or so; lots, prime time weekday slot and repeated on Sundays for an extra paycheck.

    As for Enda....jaysus f**k no, I dont want the charismatic equivalent of a freshly painted wall presenting anything.


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    #6875
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Gunmonkey wrote: »
    Depends how much dirt the presenters have on the heads of RTE: none, maybe be on the Player for a week or so; lots, prime time weekday slot and repeated on Sundays for an extra paycheck.

    As for Enda....jaysus f**k no, I dont want the charismatic equivalent of a freshly painted wall presenting anything.

    Unfortunately, his show is starting on Sunday.... it looks like it will be a mix of 'as Gaeilge' and English. He'll also be on a train too.

    I imagine this is some sort of 'promo' for the travel services, which have taken a hit in the last year plus change. (everything from usage, to claims of safety issues).

    That said... there were no new faces RTE could have recruited? Was it bad luck that Lottie Ryan got pregnant, because this could have been a simple show for her to host?

    But it is baffling how little new young presenters we're seeing in the last few years. 'New' presenters are closer to their 40's than they are to their 20s. I suppose it tells you how dead television is right now, that they can't get any new presenters. Even folks who are connected to RTE people aren't getting work.


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    #6876
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    But it is baffling how little new young presenters we're seeing in the last few years. 'New' presenters are closer to their 40's than they are to their 20s. I suppose it tells you how dead television is right now, that they can't get any new presenters. Even folks who are connected to RTE people aren't getting work.

    They sucked everything out of TV. Particularly RTÉ2

    Remember that guy you know

    Starting out on Cula4
    Making his acting debut on Seacht
    then on to Pop4
    sure a stint over in England
    at which stage he was up and coming for RTÉ so they put him on drive time
    the he got a breakfast show

    Well at least RTÉ can now point the finger at TG4.

    But as for RTÉ in seriousness

    The Den, TWO TUBE and a few other programmes provided presenters with some opportunity. I don't think there is an equivalent to Aidan Power or Ray D'Arcy or even Stephen Byrne in the last 10 years!


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    #6877
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭rightmove


    Anyone watch the finding Jack programme ?

    I know it was on VM but they showed a clip of a kid asking bug jack some hard question in Landsdowne road. He looked awful familiar.....sure I have saw him in fair city at one point. Anyone confirm????


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    #6878
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    I don't care if this is the right place to say this but myself and herself have been watching reruns of the royle family on gold for the last couple of weeks its always followed by mrs brownes boys, watching one after the other you can see how ridiculous and overrated mbb is as regards comedic writing, Carroll is an imposter who got lucky ... Different class different class


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    #6879
    [Deleted User]
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    MBB's is third rate panto stuff and thats insulting panto's. I'm old enough to have seen BOC in stand up when he had the rat's tail and he made a living from saying **** alot. He wasn't funny then and has been rehashing the same stuff since.


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    #6880
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭rightmove


    rightmove wrote: »
    Anyone watch the finding Jack programme ?

    I know it was on VM but they showed a clip of a kid asking bug jack some hard question in Landsdowne road. He looked awful familiar.....sure I have saw him in fair city at one point. Anyone confirm????

    found it https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-40253825.html

    There’s a cameo from Victor Burke, age 11, who will go on to play Wayne Molloy in Fair City.


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    #6881
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    MBB's is third rate panto stuff and thats insulting panto's. I'm old enough to have seen BOC in stand up when he had the rat's tail and he made a living from saying **** alot. He wasn't funny then and has been rehashing the same stuff since.

    O'Carroll needs an editor, I still think his performances on TLLS with Gay Byrne were well done and the film Agnes Browne works well as a Drama Comedy even if a bit twee.


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    #6882
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,811 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    I don't care if this is the right place to say this but myself and herself have been watching reruns of the royle family on gold for the last couple of weeks its always followed by mrs brownes boys, watching one after the other you can see how ridiculous and overrated mbb is as regards comedic writing, Carroll is an imposter who got lucky ... Different class different class

    The writing in Royle Family was top class. If you don't have a top quality script then just don't bother.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #6883
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    The writing in Royle Family was top class. If you don't have a top quality script then just don't bother.

    Carroll didn't heed your advice and now he's lying by the swimming pool, a multi millionaire


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    #6884
    elperello
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    Elmo wrote: »
    O'Carroll needs an editor, I still think his performances on TLLS with Gay Byrne were well done and the film Agnes Browne works well as a Drama Comedy even if a bit twee.

    I agree, BO'C is a talented funny guy and decent skin into the bargain.

    Having said that I don't like MBB.


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    #6885
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,965 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    rightmove wrote: »
    Anyone watch the finding Jack programme ?

    I know it was on VM but they showed a clip of a kid asking bug jack some hard question in Landsdowne road. He looked awful familiar.....sure I have saw him in fair city at one point. Anyone confirm????
    rightmove wrote: »
    found it https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-40253825.html

    There’s a cameo from Victor Burke, age 11, who will go on to play Wayne Molloy in Fair City.

    Well done an interesting bit of TV history.

    Having said that you'll be doing well to find anyone on this thread who will admit to watching Fair City :).


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    #6886
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭rightmove


    elperello wrote: »
    Well done an interesting bit of TV history.

    Having said that you'll be doing well to find anyone on this thread who will admit to watching Fair City :).

    Wife caught me once. Lunchtime and alone in the house. Told her I was looking for the porn channels but she didnt believe me. Have to live with the shame to this day.


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    #6887
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,341 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Epic prime time viewing on RTÉ now....

    RTÉ 1 - Nationwide
    RTÉ 2 - Masterchef: The Professionals - from 2017


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    #6888
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Elmo wrote: »
    O'Carroll needs an editor, I still think his performances on TLLS with Gay Byrne were well done and the film Agnes Browne works well as a Drama Comedy even if a bit twee.

    He bet heavy on that Agnes Browne movie. Re-mortgaged the house, took out loans etc etc etc.

    The film went over budget. Luckily for him, Angelica Huston bought the rights to the movie off of him (he was about 1 million or 2 million in debt at the time. That was in pounds, so we're talking about €2.5 million euros) and covered his losses.
    He was able to break even, possibly make a tidy profit too.

    The second time tho, he bet heavy with Sparrow's Trap... that pretty much left him debt to too many people. May even have broken up his first marriage.


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    #6889
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    He bet heavy on that Agnes Browne movie. Re-mortgaged the house, took out loans etc etc etc.

    The film went over budget. Luckily for him, Angelica Huston bought the rights to the movie off of him (he was about 1 million or 2 million in debt at the time. That was in pounds, so we're talking about €2.5 million euros) and covered his losses.
    He was able to break even, possibly make a tidy profit too.

    The second time tho, he bet heavy with Sparrow's Trap... that pretty much left him debt to too many people. May even have broken up his first marriage.

    That's what I mean about having a good editor, when did Angelica Huston take over on the production? Was she involve from the beginning or just on casting? I though Disney distributed it?


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    #6890
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Elmo wrote: »
    That's what I mean about having a good editor, when did Angelica Huston take over on the production? Was she involve from the beginning or just on casting? I though Disney distributed it?

    She was involved from the beginning. You tend to have to provide funding for any kind of production, upfront, before a studio will get involved in additional funding and distribution (often requires you to repay the funding once the film/ tv production is distributed too. Every cent has to be accounted for). Huston spent a lot of time in Ireland, because of her dad-so she was involved from the get go. She was even producer.

    So Brendan put up everything he owned, and it quickly ran out of money. But that was chump change for Huston, so she bought the rights off of him, and took over directing duties as well as starring in it.

    IT was distributed by Universal pictures, via their USA films label. That label later became Focus Features after merging with October Films.


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    #6891
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,589 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I always heard BOC was incredibly wealthy, and made an absolute fortune from MBB and its TV sales.

    Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.


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    #6892
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,504 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.

    Any even half decent movie is gonna run in to the millions to make, then add in marketing etc to try and make money back...


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    #6893
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,283 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I always heard BOC was incredibly wealthy, and made an absolute fortune from MBB and its TV sales.

    Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.

    Agnes brown was made in 1998, well before MBB & BOC becoming 'wealthy'


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    #6894
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I always heard BOC was incredibly wealthy, and made an absolute fortune from MBB and its TV sales.

    Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.

    Don't call me Shirley... ;)

    What someone else has said, but yeah, BOC wasn't hugely wealthy at the time. He was still married to his first wife. The children were all young.
    He'd made some money from his comedy specials, and his books-but he wasn't massively wealthy then. Comfortable, not wealthy. (Remember this was about 22, maybe 23 years ago-BBC didn't know who he was).

    €2million to €3 million is not a lot of money when you look at some of the high profile cast involved (Huston was probably earning that much alone from the likes of The Witches). But considering the money it made back (roughly 170 million) she probably made a significant profit due to her also directing the film as well as being the producer.


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    #6895
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I see Nadia Forde has been given her own series ....

    I see its a scripted comedy ....

    I see it is set in the 1980s ....

    I see Nadia Forde becoming Jenny Z and Amy H rolled in to one. ....

    RTÉ seeing the $$$$$$$$$$$$$

    perhaps it will be good who knows. :confused:


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    #6896
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,283 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Elmo wrote: »
    perhaps it will be good who knows. :confused:

    I can hazard a guess it will be a crock of sh1te.


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    #6897
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    retalivity wrote: »
    I can hazard a guess it will be a crock of sh1te.

    Really depends on what your defintion of crock of sh1te is

    between Finding Joy and Eamon and Bridget

    or between Eamon and Bridget and Finding Joy

    or are they all equal amounts of sh1te?


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    #6898
    NIMAN
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    retalivity wrote: »
    Agnes brown was made in 1998, well before MBB & BOC becoming 'wealthy'

    Sorry got my timescale all wrong.


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    #6899
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    Elmo wrote: »
    I see Nadia Forde has been given her own series ....

    I see its a scripted comedy ....

    I see it is set in the 1980s ....

    I see Nadia Forde becoming Jenny Z and Amy H rolled in to one. ....

    RTÉ seeing the $$$$$$$$$$$$$

    perhaps it will be good who knows.     :confused:

    Best April Fools joke I've seen today :D


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    #6900
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 82,520 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Elmo wrote: »
    I see Nadia Forde has been given her own series ....

    I see its a scripted comedy ....

    I see it is set in the 1980s ....

    I see Nadia Forde becoming Jenny Z and Amy H rolled in to one. ....

    RTÉ seeing the $$$$$$$$$$$$$

    perhaps it will be good who knows. :confused:
    Hopefully they have signed it up for a 2nd series before episode 1 is rated by anyone :pac:


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    #6901
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,504 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Gunmonkey wrote: »
    Best April Fools joke I've seen today :D

    If only but RTE take the piss out of us every day


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