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

The producers of No Time To Die won't have needed to spend any money on advertising in Ireland.

The film has been covered ad nauseam for free on multiple shows on rte for the last 3 or 4 weeks. I have never heard a film talked about as much. You'd think it was the most important film ever made in the history of cinema.

Then again, shows need cheap filler content, and talking about films and tv is easy.

Dee should have been charging the producers money for amount of airtime it got.

I am guessing they paid for the late late show on Friday night.

daithi and your wan (mauraeennnn) have another whan helping them now. another white middle aged man as ....sorry....of course not. why cant they drop one of the existing presenters?

Also Anna Daly has joined em, after leaving Ireland AM.

Aidan Power and Laura Woods might be next to 'return' to RTE.

Tbf, Noel Clarke got a Bafta award, despite numerous allegations and whispers about him. Doesn't surprise me how many people get high up gigs, despite numerous creepy allegations.

I mean, many people knew about Harvey Weinstein... but they still turned a blind eye.

Weinstein and Noel Clarke were very well known, and as for HW very powerful so its understandable that the powers that be would have turned a blind eye and covered up their horrific crimes.

But for RTE to claim ignorance regarding EMcD allegations is indefensible

It's interesting, too, how people who enabled Weinstein still have careers. There's an unfunny 'jack of all trades' (since he's done everything-but isn't much good at any thing he's tried) called Nick Kroll. He primarily showboats as a comedian. Anyways, his dad is a billionaire, runs a company called Kroll Inc.

Whenever Harvey Weinstein wanted to kill a story about him, or about a client/ Starlet he was promoting-he'd hire Kroll Inc (among others) to kill the story.

Nick Kroll and John Mullaney did some hosting gig, and they proceeded to do stand-up bashing Weinstein. But Kroll's daddy helped enable Ol'Harvey.

They were babysitting. ;)

This also leaves me asking what do RTÉ do with their TV studios in Dublin.

The RTÉ Quiz Show (there is only one) was filmed in Virgin Media's TV studios, according to RTÉ because all of their studios were in use.

RTÉ TV has ~4 live shows per day, one comes from Cork so only 3 are coming from the Dublin studios, News at 1, 6 and 9, and then Prime Time, Claire Byrne Live and TLLS, this leaves only one Daytime use of the studios News at 1. With news and sport at the Weekend.

I don't think their are many more studio based programmes from RTÉ.

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RTE don't think about elderly people in nursing homes etc... 

RTE don't think about anybody but RTE. It's as simple as that.

I'd say the ratings weren't as good as they thought. I mean, twitter folk aren't an endorsement. But for a supposedly 'simple' show, I'd say the costs were rather large. D'arcy on 500 grand, Double Z productions getting paid. Puppeteers, 'comedians', guests... someone might have gotten too greedy behind the scenes, or someone's agent might have been too pushy about their 'talent' and trying to get more money.

I didn't watch a single episode of 'the new Den'. I didnt' want to taint my memories of the Den in its heyday.

You can't recapture that moment in time, because it was a product of its time. Fast forward almost three decades later - Sky, Netflix, Amazon prime, Apple tv, HBO Max (coming soon), Disney +, to name a few, offer many options for your viewing pleasure. It's not the 'stuck with 2 channels' like it was before. Not for many of us.

I thought it might get another year, but not surprised it didn't.

Were there ever official numbers released? I mean, Kin had 500,000 viewers on its first night. The new Reeling in the Years had 515,000 viewers on it's first episode.

I'm glad to be proven wrong, but I don't remember RTE releasing any viewers numbers for the Den.

The Den infested by D'arcy will always be the poor relation once Dempsey's Den get's mentioned.

It's not you Ray, it's us. We've had some great times but we feel we're holding you back. We think you can go on to much better things outside of our organisation.

ring, ring

'Dee, it's Linda. I have Noel Kelly on line two'

'------ ----- ------?'

'Yes, that's the one, your boss'