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

"Claire Byrne shocked the nation when she stepped away in 2022".

Get in the bin

I said this in another thread a few weeks back...

...and there it is, happening right in front of our eyes. A programme/series is farmed out to a indi company, Byrne gets her fees paid by the indi company and those fees won't show up when RTE declares the 2023 figs but RTE (aka us) have paid for it. I think the reason it had to be done at VM studios is so it is completely free of RTE involvement bar stumping up the cash - Just think about that - RTE paid our money to use another studio (as theirs lay unused) so they could complete this slight of hand

Quiz show contestants:-

episode 1 - Michael Harding, Conor Pope, Luke O'Neill, mammy Baz, Eoin McGee

episode 2 - Jen Hogan, Hugh Wallace, Dr Shane Bergin, Eoin Corry, Diarmaid Ferriter

episode 3 - Francis Brennan, Conor Faughnan, Aifric O'Connell, Kieran McCarthy, Anton Savage

episode 4 - Valarie Cox, Terry Prone, Geraldine Herbert, Shane Byrne, Joanna Donnelly

episode 5 - Alison O'Connor, Stefanie Preissner, Bernard O'Shea, Baz, Gabija Gataveckaite

All proceeds from the shows will be gratefully hoovered up by NKM ltd.

Yet another programme whether you have to wonder do RTE actually expect people to voluntarily watch this, or are they going for the "stuck in a nursing home with no remote" market.

It was a bit tongue in cheek Ro but hopefully in an informative way. I've no idea who the contestants are, but going on Claire's previous form, I'd expect it to be a team NK fest.

I took the opportunity to list a sample of the heads that I personally think are Noel's boys and girls (only three publicly aligned) It's based on where and how often these heads appear. It's a mad looking list I know - one could easily think 'GZ, ya mad bastard ya...Joanna Donnelly?, sure isn't she just working for Met Eireann?' Well yes, but wtf is she doing on the front of the RTE guide? - that's a classic NKM MO

Just remember, Noel works in a mysterious way - I stand by that list, I could be wrong on a few, but not many

@Gen.Zhukov he doesn't represent skeletor ! :pacman:

I saw this from Dee re: An Cailin Ciúin, lots of talk about how well RTÉ did getting it to the Oscars etc, they really have gone all out mention how well they did.

Oh wait no sorry that's TG4, but if you can imagine replacing Toy Show the Musical with An Cailin Ciúin, you might here more about their Oscar nomination, and even if they didn't get the nods that they got CINE4 would still have been worth it from a PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING point of view.

https://www.rte.ie/tv/audience-participation/2020/0123/1110415-angela-scanlons-ask-me-anything/

Okay we deserve a refund. Just for this. It's not like this show has a strong viewership, she's getting as many viewers as The Ray D'Arcy Show, if not less.

Cut his wages to match his reduced hours

Pity they didn't get rid of him years ago, he really is hopeless.

People are at least cynical of RTÉ, "fans" of DWTS call out RTÉ Staffer win (a headline you won't find anywhere), but scrolling through twitter that seemed to be the impression I was getting. Along with the few "ah! sure its only a game, and didn't you enjoy it" or "I don't understand why people want to call out the presenter in question, is it really that important!".

The cynic in me suggested 8 weeks ago Carl was added to the roster of "stars" because RTÉ 2fm Breakfast was falling flat and the 2 presenters need something to drag the audience to them, did it work, well I hope not ... but that is just the cynic in me.

One would have assumed that the stand-up comedy circuit would be active again since the lifting of Covid restrictions. So why is the Tommy Tiernan Show on RTÉ 1 still going on at the moment?

Joanna is not part of the NK stable.

O'Connor married the former DG of RTE's daughter, so that's how he's a lifer. Which explains why his shows have been so cringey, yet he still has shows.