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

Hmm if you didn't know his agent was NK how could you book him?

Noel Kelly used to have D'arcy listed on his site- he's now been bumped. Wonder if he's now considered so 'toxic' to the brand he was bumped off the site?

So then next year we’ll be subjected to a ton of planted articles in various media telling us how lucky we were to have Dee, and we’ll never see her like again……..

I wonder what semi-state executive board will snap her up when she becomes a free agent..? ….. on €170k per year of course…

She be over at An Post and David McRedmond will be at RTÉ just wait and see. At least its between David McRedmond (he was with TV3 when they had to be bail out for €83m and when the sold the channel to VM for €80m having bought it for €265m!, he was also the spokesperson for eircom when they went public, that was fun!) or the current strategic director, Rory Covney of the Covneys

In fairness to McRedmond, he has had rural post offices on his watch closed and the price of a stamp raised numerous times. Very, very difficult things to get done politically. I think he may have closed a sorting office in Cork, despite fierce opposition.

That's exactly the type of CEO RTE needs now or may be 15 years ago.

What did Ms. Forbes do? Bang on about the funding model and presided over staff numbers going back up over 1800. This is despite selling valuable land to pay for an Voluntary Exit scheme. She has been nothing less than a disaster.

I don't think they're interested in that. Just protection of what they have now.

As for August, I suppose it's based on this old view that everyone's outside having a great time without the tele. Audiences would be lower and there'd be little point in commissioning expensive programming that fewer viewers are available to watch. Stick on Reeling in the Years, a couple of movies and some cheap-ass music show with Danny whatz his name instead!

(I couldn't tell you if any of that is accurate, by the way)

That month off in August is staggering, by the way. Even the lowliest paid people are "working from home" that month, I'd imagine.

So they are unhappy, but life is good!

Sounds like they've forgotten to unzip the tent when peeing out!

It's not anti-woke at all I am point out his short comings and I am pointing that he has jumped successfully on to the bandwagon, read the report into gender equal pay in An Post and perhaps you come away with something else. He will be the next DG IMO.

But don't let my divergence ask the question, how is it that An Post can't seem to Collect The Licence fee, they only collected 900,000 last year. He sit over that and has never been asked.

Any sign of Killing Joy...the most aptly named tv show in tv history!

She was in Harry Wilde, I assume she'll be in season 2 of that, so she is sort.

Finding Joy... Killing Joy might a good serieal killer movie... though I think you might be thinking of Killing Eve.

That's dialect not pronunciation, some "aul' Dubbelin" people do that too.

"Turty year ago I bawt dat, 20 powend it was"

Decided to give RTE's new 'comedy' show a chance... No Worries If Not. All the TV coverage of the Queen's death became overbearing.

It was so frustrating. Didn't know who it was aimed at. Sketches set in 1998, others making jokes about 'You're A Star', and 'Britain's Got Talent' (who still watches those? And You're a Star is ancient TV).

There were moments where I thought 'oh, it might get good here'... and it didn't. Such a shame. I've seen Sean Burke in his twitter videos, and he can raise a smile. But I was stone faced the whole time.

You could see a joke buried under the premise of their gags. But never arrived.

The BBC gives would-be TV comedy writers radio shows. No hiding place there and cheap to produce so a failure isn't the end of the world.

Nothing wrong with it but the way RTÉ presented it as we're bring comedy back to RTÉ2... oh yeah because you failed to give "would-be TV comedy writers" any form of opportunity across TV or Radio.

On that Ladhood is a good comedy TV series that came from BBC Radio.

She's getting her obligatory LL appearance tonight

Also did they send their whole newsroom across the water... they'd want to be careful BBC might see their stars and offer them all jobs!

Yeah happened to be in the car when I heard that also.

So this is what I think happens in RTÉ. There correspondents all do overtime but because RTÉ don't pay overtime they take TOIL. I'd question management as to why they have so much overtime which causes so much TOIL.

I will be interesting to see how RTÉ defend sending this amount to cover the Death of the head of another nation. Why couldn't she have died in August!

The standard of writing, use of spell check etc has gone to the dogs on rte.ie recently. Every second article has spelling mistakes, poor wording or just simple mistakes. Its mind boggling stuff. First paragraph here contains a prime example.

'Today with Claire Byrne' - No sponsor for 18 months or more, mainly because..well, it's a bit rubbish.

In comes the 'White knight' state agency SOLAS with a €350k pa dig-out!

Complete impartiality eh

*This article was sponsored by Piano.

Sorry I see you said it was promotional :)

They could see it on UK channels and I'm sure many are happy to use that facility.

If RTE didn't cover it they would probably be criticised for that.

As I said for my part I'd prefer that RTE provide their own take on the events after all it is 70 years since the last time so it really is an exceptional event.

Regarding RT I found it amusing that some of the posters who sneer at the LLS for not having access to big show biz stars were out whinging about the expense when they actually did get two real stars for the price of one.