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Has Lord of The Rings ever aired on Irish Television?

  • 24-08-2010 09:42PM
    #1
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,510 ✭✭✭✭


    I know Channel 4 has aired the trilogy at least 3 times since they got the rights, oddly enough though only on Channel 4, never on Film4,E4 or More4.
    Has any Irish station ever aired what is one of the biggest movie events of the noughties. And if not, Why not?

    This too shall pass.



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  • #2
    Dman001
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    I believe TV3 has showed it in the past, although I could be mistaken.


  • #3
    humanji
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    I don't think they did. Isn't it due to air soon? I thought I saw it on the RTE autumn listings ads.


  • #4
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    humanji wrote: »
    I don't think they did. Isn't it due to air soon? I thought I saw it on the RTE autumn listings ads.
    Really how odd? Anyone know why it took this long, it must have something to do with the rights?


  • #5
    Richard Dower
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    Never seen it on RTE, but as stated C4 have done all three movies....the add breaks kill it though.


  • #6
    Borneo Fnctn
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    They'll probably fucking show all 3 at christmas time. Shite films.


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  • #7
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    ^ you sir, are off yer rocker!

    (ps. - how are you able to swear?....i thought **** was censored?)


  • #8
    Brendog
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    RTE, RTE2, TV3, 3E have all shown the three lord of the rings films.



    they are always on at christmas...


  • #9
    BigBenRoeth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭BigBenRoeth


    I dont think theyve been on either of the rte twins


  • #10
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    ^ you sir, are off yer rocker!

    (ps. - how are you able to swear?....i thought **** was censored?)
    Seven years you have been here and don't know how to bypass the fúckin filter?

    Shítecrack :P

    Numerous ways to do it really, i find the easiest to be the altgr and any vowel to be the easiest.


  • #11
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Brendog wrote: »
    RTE, RTE2, TV3, 3E have all shown the three lord of the rings films.



    they are always on at christmas...

    I don't think they have been on either of the TV3 twins either.

    Perhaps Channel 4 bought the Irish rights as well.


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  • #12
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    (ps. - how are you able to swear?....i thought **** was censored?)

    You are not cool enough to swear on boards.ie.


  • #13
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    the films are fairly crap though
    fellowship was quite good, but they just got boring as sin after that


  • #14
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    Easily summarised as "Walking up hills and crying." Why Galdalf didn't just fly over the volcano on one of the eagles and drop the ring in is beyond me.


  • #15
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    NSFW
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0sc-gS9AqM


    Perfectly describes the lord of the rings.


  • #16
    Dman001
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    Brendog wrote: »
    RTE, RTE2, TV3, 3E have all shown the three lord of the rings films.



    they are always on at christmas...
    I know for a fact 3e haven't shown it. They never show any recent, half decent films.


  • #17
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    chanell 4 obviously have exclusive rights , btw , has anyone ever noticed that no chanell ever shows disney movies , i.e , the lion king , aladin or even beauty and the best , not that im itching to see singing tea pots or wisecracking genies but i find it curios that disney have such a grip on their movies


  • #18
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    Brendog wrote: »
    RTE, RTE2, TV3, 3E have all shown the three lord of the rings films.



    they are always on at christmas...

    incorrect on every count , not only is chanell 4 the only chanell to have ever shown any of the three movies , they have never screened them at christmas


  • #19
    filmfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭filmfan


    irishh_bob wrote: »
    chanell 4 obviously have exclusive rights , btw , has anyone ever noticed that no chanell ever shows disney movies , i.e , the lion king , aladin or even beauty and the best , not that im itching to see singing tea pots or wisecracking genies but i find it curios that disney have such a grip on their movies

    That's a good point, I love Disney movies it's a shame! I thought that RTE screened LOTR at Christmas but it must have been Ch4, I like watching the extended versions myself:)


  • #20
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    irishh_bob wrote: »
    chanell 4 obviously have exclusive rights , btw , has anyone ever noticed that no chanell ever shows disney movies , i.e , the lion king , aladin or even beauty and the best , not that im itching to see singing tea pots or wisecracking genies but i find it curios that disney have such a grip on their movies
    I believe some Disney films aren't shown on TV due to the "Disney Vault". Some films are released on DVD for a limited period, then they are placed in the Vault and are not released again for another few years. This may affect TV rights too.


  • #21
    amacachi
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    Why would anyone want RTE to spend money on the rights and then broadcast it in SD, with a slow framerate, ruined with ads and possibly wrong aspect ratio leading to cropping?


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    irishh_bob wrote: »
    chanell 4 obviously have exclusive rights , btw , has anyone ever noticed that no chanell ever shows disney movies , i.e , the lion king , aladin or even beauty and the best , not that im itching to see singing tea pots or wisecracking genies but i find it curios that disney have such a grip on their movies

    That's not true, both Oliver and Company and the Fox and the Hound were on RTE last week and Robin Hood was on the week beforehand.


  • #23
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's not true, both Oliver and Company and the Fox and the Hound were on RTE last week and Robin Hood was on the week beforehand.
    According to Wiki, they aren't part of the Disney Vault films


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    Dman001 wrote: »
    According to Wiki, they aren't part of the Disney Vault films

    I've seen many of the vault films on tv also, I have both Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin on my old dvd recorder hard drive.


  • #25
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    amacachi wrote: »
    Why would anyone want RTE to spend money on the rights and then broadcast it in SD, with a slow framerate, ruined with ads and possibly wrong aspect ratio leading to cropping?

    Lord of the Rings TV rights would have been before HD TV availability ????


  • #26
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's not true, both Oliver and Company and the Fox and the Hound were on RTE last week and Robin Hood was on the week beforehand.

    im talking about blockbuster disney movies from the early nineties , not minor successes


  • #27
    thenakedanddead
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    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Seven years you have been here and don't know how to bypass the fúckin filter?

    Shítecrack :P

    Numerous ways to do it really, i find the easiest to be the altgr and any vowel to be the easiest.

    I'll remember that advise in the future


  • #28
    RolandIRL
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    Borneo Fnctn wrote: »
    They'll probably fucking show all 3 at christmas time. Shite films.
    Richard Dower wrote: »
    ^ you sir, are off yer rocker!

    (ps. - how are you able to swear?....i thought **** was censored?)
    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Seven years you have been here and don't know how to bypass the fúckin filter?

    Shítecrack :P

    Numerous ways to do it really, i find the easiest to be the altgr and any vowel to be the easiest.
    yes but the person richard was asking didn't do the fada, italics, or bold. see the first quote


  • #29
    .SONIC.
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    Pretty sure tv3 have shown them, not sure about the rte's


  • #30
    Agricola
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    Pfft, RTE.

    Watching these films in the wrong aspect ratio, in SD, and with ads every ten minutes should be against the law.

    Extended edition Blurays, a 40" 1080p LCD, a dark room and some beer. That is all.


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  • #31
    Tails142
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    pretty sure I've seen the fellowship on tv

    p.s. fuck the filter ;)


  • #32
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    yes but the person richard was asking didn't do the fada, italics, or bold. see the first quote
    I said the easiest way, if you change the size of any letter in the word using the tag, it comes out the same way as normal, just takes more effort than altgr and fada.

    fuck.


  • #33
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    IS THIS THREAD STILL GOING?!?


  • #34
    monkeypants
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    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    NSFW
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0sc-gS9AqM


    Perfectly describes the lord of the rings.
    Haven't seen Clerks 2, but now I'm going too. That was funny! :D


  • #35
    Elmo
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    Agricola wrote: »
    Pfft, RTE.

    Watching these films in the wrong aspect ratio, in SD, and with ads every ten minutes should be against the law.

    Extended edition Blurays, a 40" 1080p LCD, a dark room and some beer. That is all.

    You will actually find that no TV channel in Europe has ads in a movie every ten mins. EU law has some strange rule about showing ads in each 45min section of Films. Sweden want them to bring in a law only allowing one ad between any movie. Sweden rocks (even if they did climb down from zero ads during a movie).

    Again Lord of the Rings broadcast rights pre-dates HD on both Sky and Channel 4.

    Fairly certain that no Irish Channel have ever broadcast Lord of the Rings.


  • #36
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    monkeypants wrote: »
    Haven't seen Clerks 2, but now I'm going too. That was funny! :D
    Do, it's a brilliant movie, well worth the watch.


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  • #37
    Agricola
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    Elmo wrote: »
    You will actually find that no TV channel in Europe has ads in a movie every ten mins. EU law has some strange rule about showing ads in each 45min section of Films. Sweden want them to bring in a law only allowing one ad between any movie. Sweden rocks (even if they did climb down from zero ads during a movie).

    Again Lord of the Rings broadcast rights pre-dates HD on both Sky and Channel 4.

    Fairly certain that no Irish Channel have ever broadcast Lord of the Rings.

    Does that EU law only refer to terrestrial or is it cable and satelite too. I watched Saving Private Ryan on Film4 afew weeks back and Im not exagerating when I say there was an ad break every 20/25 minutes for the final 2 hours of the movie. It nearly drove me wrong. I will from now on only watch Film4 movies when they've been Skyplussed.

    I hear what you're saying about broadcast rights, but what I was getting at was that whenever RTE do show them, they will be cropped, they will be in SD and the will have a large dollop of ads thrown on top. If I said the phrase "Movies at Christmas sponsored by Niquitin CQ" would anyone here get alittle sick into their hand! I know I would!


  • #38
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Agricola wrote: »
    Does that EU law only refer to terrestrial or is it cable and satelite too. I watched Saving Private Ryan on Film4 afew weeks back and Im not exagerating when I say there was an ad break every 20/25 minutes for the final 2 hours of the movie. It nearly drove me wrong. I will from now on only watch Film4 movies when they've been Skyplussed.

    I hear what you're saying about broadcast rights, but what I was getting at was that whenever RTE do show them, they will be cropped, they will be in SD and the will have a large dollop of ads thrown on top. If I said the phrase "Movies at Christmas sponsored by Niquitin CQ" would anyone here get alittle sick into their hand! I know I would!

    Yeah the rules really let the Broadcaster put all of the adverts at the end of the movie, if you ever notice there is always a nice long bit before ads are introduced during the broadcast. RTÉ and TG4 can only have a max of 9mins per hour (6mins on average) (Irish Law), while commercial stations and UK stations can have 12mins of ads per hour.

    TV3 and TG4 would be in the same situation in relation to HD broadcast of LOTR.

    There may also have been some changes to the TV without Frontiers Directive now know as AV without Frontiers Directive from the EU.
    Relaxing the rules on advertising

    The Directive simplifies and relaxes the rules on the insertion of advertising, while encouraging self- and co-regulation.

    The existing daily limit of three hours of advertising has been abolished. The Commission has retained the limit of 12 minutes per hour for all forms of advertising to prevent an increase in the total amount of advertising broadcast.

    In addition, instead of being compelled to allow at least 20 minutes between each advertising break, the new Directive allows broadcasters to choose the most appropriate moment to insert advertising during programmes.

    However, cinematographic works, children's programmes and news programmes may be interrupted by advertising only once per 35-minute period.

    The Directive provides support for new forms of advertising, such as split-screen advertising, virtual advertising and interactive advertising.

    It's a really pity Sweden didn't win in the negotiations.


  • #39
    An Ciarraioch
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    Bumping this thread with the Fellowship on TG4 tomorrow- is this the first Irish screening?


  • #40
    Elmo
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    An Ciarraioch wrote: »
    Bumping this thread with the Fellowship on TG4 tomorrow- is this the first Irish screening?

    Thank you, I am fairly certain it is the first time for an Irish broadcaster to the Lord of The Rings. RTE2 had the Hobbit on over the Christmas.


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