Not James Bond Season again!!!

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Do RTE do this every year? Why? It's just laziness on their part. If they must do it could they not leave it for a few years. I used to watch a few of the bond films but can't take them anymore. Now there's going to be one every Sunday for a while.

sceptre

cashback wrote:

Do RTE do this every year?

Almost, yes.

Why?

Laziness

It's just laziness on their part.

Ah, I see we both got the same hymn-sheet issue.

If they must do it could they not leave it for a few years.

See above.

I used to watch a few of the bond films but can't take them anymore. Now there's going to be one every Sunday for a while.

You're right of course. RTE have had a staggering laziness with regard to movies at times. Willy Wonka every Christmas, cycling through the long list of Indiana Jones movies and putting one on every Christmas Day, showing Bond movies wherever there's a gap in the schedule for two hours every week for a few weeks and there are other examples that I'm too lazt to list. Of course, assuming their rights buyer gets the usual discount on repeating a movie withing a certain time-frame (2 years if I remember rightly, though I don't know enough about TV showing rights for movies to say anything definitively), showing Bond movies regularly gets very very cheap after a while. Laziness and tight-fistedness. There are the two reasons. UTV pull the same stunt with the Bond movies regularly though given that it's one of the smallest franchise areas in the UK by population, you pretty much expect them to be tight with their cash.

Mossy Monk

James Bond season

never a bad thing imo

Ro: maaan!

fs. What's the problem? It's not like you watch RTE 24 hours a day and have to sit though them. Probably better than whatever would be on otherwise. There should be more films on TV imo. The older they are, the cheaper they are (I assume). And I'd prefer a couple of old James Bond films than whatever the next network premeir is going to be...

arbeitsscheuer

What Roman said.
Especially since the next network tv premier is usually some piece of godawful cr@p like Windtalkers, Blackhawk Down or some such... Watched Dr. No tonight. Twas great, seen it countless times and I could watch it countless times more. There aren't many films I can say that about.

Our man in Havana

I don't see what the problem is here tbh.

Elmo

ITV do the same :mad:

Willy Wonka every Christmas,

It's on TG4 now.

Deadringers had a great skit about the bond season on ITV.

grumpytrousers

Elmo wrote:

ITV do the same :mad:



It's on TG4 now.

Deadringers had a great skit about the bond season on ITV.

So Dr No was on last night, and according to the SKY EPG, it's Goldfinger next week...

Tight-fistedness aside, wouldn't it be nice if the gang of doofi (plural of doofus, right?!) in Montrose showed the friggin' things in order. I'm nearly sure Goldfinger wasn't the second one, but I'm too lazy to look it up...

arbeitsscheuer

You are indeed correct grumpytrousers, 2nd one was From Russia With Love, then Goldfinger. It would be nice if those f*ckers by the Stillorgan dual carriageway could show the feckin things in chronological order, but I spose that would be too much to ask. After all, it's not as if we pay them a licence fee or anything... Er...

Elmo

They never show them in sequential order.

Dr. No
You Only Live Twice
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Never Say Never Again (Remake of Thunderball?)

Are sean conery's ones.

grumpytrousers

Elmo wrote:

They never show them in sequential order.

Dr. No
You Only Live Twice
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Never Say Never Again (Remake of Thunderball?)

Are sean conery's ones.

They did back in 1985!!!

Ah, I remember those Friday nights...Bond nights...you'd pray to God that you got no homework to eat into the toblerone/club-orange guzzling fest that was a Bond movie. And in fairness to RTE, they actually got it right...whole lot of 'em back to back and, if memory serves, lobbed Casino Royale on at the end, right after Octopussy....

Larianne

Watched Daimonds are Forever the other night on UTV. Best line in the movie -

"That's a nice little nothing you're almost wearing"

Bond to Tiffany Case.

blondie83

I like Bond films, because no matter how many times they're repeated you can always settle in and enjoy an evening watching them! Its entertainment, nothing more, no real lessons, morals ect just entertainment

weemcd

sceptre wrote:

Willy Wonka every Christmas,

You can bet every channel will play willy wonka this christmas because of the new Burton remake.

Scruff

OMFG THEY ARE SHOWING SIMPSONS\STAR TREK TNG\STAR TREK VOYAGER\STAR TREK DS9\STARGATE SG1\ETC\ETC ALL OVER AGAIN AND NOT ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT ORDER!!!!!!

Do sky one do this every week?? Why? It's just laziness on their part. If they must do it could they not leave it for a few weeks. I used to watch a few of the Simpsons\Star Trek tng\Star Trek DS9\Star Trek Voyager\etc\etc episodes but can't take them anymore. Now there's going to be one-thirty every week for a while\ever.

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Scruff wrote:

OMFG THEY ARE SHOWING SIMPSONS\STAR TREK TNG\STAR TREK VOYAGER\STAR TREK DS9\STARGATE SG1\ETC\ETC ALL OVER AGAIN AND NOT ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT ORDER!!!!!!

Do sky one do this every week?? Why? It's just laziness on their part. If they must do it could they not leave it for a few weeks. I used to watch a few of the Simpsons\Star Trek tng\Star Trek DS9\Star Trek Voyager\etc\etc episodes but can't take them anymore. Now there's going to be one-thirty every week for a while\ever.

Well done.

Anyway I know there's a lot of people who like watching Bond but there's also a lot who don't, or those that don't want to watch them every year at least! If you're someone like me, stuck in four-channel land, there's not much else to watch. I wouldn't mind too much if they showed them on a Saturday afternoon or something.

Elmo

What I find annoying about 1,2,3 and 4 is that they show all of their good imported shows after 9.

Take Monday night for example.

RTE TWO: LOST 10:10
TV3: L&O:SVU 10:00
TG4: The Wire 10:30

RTE One at least aren't showing CSI:LV at 9:30 but when is that returning?

Anyway I also find that their is nothing much to watch between 6 and 9 on any channel except repeats of Friends, the simpsons, Star Trek etc etc. Oh and some DIY programmes on the BBC.

loyatemu

bond movies - great hangover viewing on a sunday afternoon (well the 60s and 70s ones anyway)

"My name's Plenty O'Toole"
"Named after your father no doubt"

...and so forth.