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Sopranos - final season postponed on RTÉ

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  • #32
    The Fool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭The Fool


    Vote for Tony ;)


  • #33
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Babybing wrote:
    This is SH1T:mad: A huge proportion of people simply dont give a sh1t about the b0ll0x these politicians spouts. Why shouldnt we have a choice of what we watch?


    Its not like watching those gobsh1tes makes a difference anyway. Its just a popularity contest based on personalities, does anyone believe anything these fellas say? Do you really think they will carry out the policies they say? This is nothing more than a vanity contest tonight. At least we would have been entertained with the sopranos. I fvcking despise RTE WITH EVERY OUNCE OF MY BODY.:mad: :mad:

    That made me laugh. Amazing really.


  • #34
    golfgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭golfgirl


    V peeved about this, 20 minutes of those politicians plenty for me, heard it all before, planned to switch over at 10pm as I've been looking forward to the new season for ages. What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children, and decide that it would be better for us to watch that boring debate, atleast there's a bit of passion in the Sopranos. <SNIPPITY-SNIP>

    MOD EDIT: Oh... no... you... didn't! I'll consider this a warning - please read the charter regarding asking the forbidden questions!


  • #35
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    golfgirl wrote:
    What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children

    Are you for real? It has been delayed by one whole week. Imagine if you were waiting on a UK channel to show it. How long would that be.


  • #36
    lodgepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭lodgepole


    The Fool wrote:
    If people prefer Tony over Bertie so be it!!!
    If it was any other program i'd agree, but the debates are of national importance. The Sopranos has a large viewership, I agree wholeheartedly with RTE delaying it for the benefit of their (excellent) election coverage.
    Babybing wrote:
    This is SH1T:mad: A huge proportion of people simply dont give a sh1t about the b0ll0x these politicians spouts. Why shouldnt we have a choice of what we watch?
    I fvcking despise RTE WITH EVERY OUNCE OF MY BODY.:mad: :mad:
    That's irrelevant. The election is more important than The Sopranos. You only have to wait a week to watch it. There's more important things to put your vitriol into. Like, you know, the state of the country.
    golfgirl wrote:
    What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children, and decide that it would be better for us to watch that boring debate, atleast there's a bit of passion in the Sopranos. Could someone please tell me where I can download the new episodes?
    I presume the police state comment was supposed to be funny. They didn't decide it was better for you to watch anything. The decided not to place two programs with large viewership against each other, gave precedence to the one with the higher importance and replaced the other with a popular film as an alternative.

    In seven days time you can go make your vote and then head home to watch The Sopranos. It's only a week, it's not like it's the end of the world.


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  • #37
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,177 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    golfgirl wrote:
    V peeved about this, 20 minutes of those politicians plenty for me, heard it all before, planned to switch over at 10pm as I've been looking forward to the new season for ages. What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children, and decide that it would be better for us to watch that boring debate, atleast there's a bit of passion in the Sopranos. Could someone please tell me where I can download the new episodes?
    Have you read the charter?

    I refer you to
    Don't ask where you can download/stream TV shows or give any links to them.

    Mention it again and it's a ban.


  • #38
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    golfgirl wrote:
    Could someone please tell me where I can download the new episodes?

    You should read the charter before asking stupid questions like that :rolleyes:


  • #39
    The Fool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭The Fool


    Lodgepole wrote:
    I presume the police state comment was supposed to be funny. They didn't decide it was better for you to watch anything. The decided not to place two programs with large viewership against each other, gave precedence to the one with the higher importance and replaced the other with a popular film as an alternative.

    The State broadcaster decided to take away peoples choice of watching Sopranos over election debate (muppet show)... Sounds like a Big Brother act to me


  • #40
    golfgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭golfgirl


    Sorry moderators, havn't been on boards since I discovered broadband downloads and honestly did not realise charter. And I stand by my point that RTE should have continued to run the sopranos tonight. I can read all about the debate tomorrow and listen to Morning Ireland, and I may even nip down now to watch the postmortem. RTE did decide that tonight I should not have the choice of watching the debate or the sopranos. Tell me one thing new that we learned from that debate?


  • #41
    The Fool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭The Fool


    golfgirl wrote:
    Tell me one thing new that we learned from that debate?

    Miriam got a new haircut


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  • #42
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Yawn. Watch it next week, or boycott **** RTÉ and watch it on E4 in a few months. See you do have a choice.


  • #43
    lodgepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭lodgepole


    The Fool wrote:
    The State broadcaster decided to take away peoples choice of watching Sopranos over election debate (muppet show)... Sounds like a Big Brother act to me
    It might sound like it to you, but you'd be wrong. At worst it was a bad scheduling decision by a televsion station. But it wasn't even that... It was a sensible change to their schedule to allow people access to both the election debate (which regardless of your opinion is important) and The Sopranos. Correct me if i'm wrong, but RTE are still the first broadcaster in Europe to show it, even with the seven day delay.
    golfgirl wrote:
    And I stand by my point that RTE should have continued to run the sopranos tonight. I can read all about the debate tomorrow and listen to Morning Ireland, and I may even nip down now to watch the postmortem. RTE did decide that tonight I should not have the choice of watching the debate or the sopranos. Tell me one thing new that we learned from that debate?
    I can't tell you what you learned from the debate, I don't know you. The function it served was to present the leaders of our two main political parties to everybody in the country and to have them lay their party's election promises out and to answer questions put to them. It has massive value, perhaps not to you, perhaps not to me, but it is of national importance. Important enough that it's not worth losing viewers by showing a massive ratings show like The Sopranos.

    I'll say again... It's only a week. Why be so upset?


  • #44
    The Fool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭The Fool


    As soon as RTE threatened to cut the political coverage they got the huge TV Licence increase. Now, not only are we being ripped off they they bump our show to watch this drivil


  • #45
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    After watching the debate tonight, I'm now actually kind of glad that they postponed it for a week even thought I've been waiting for Sopranos for ages. I suppose it did make sense.


  • #46
    The Fool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭The Fool


    Lodgepole wrote:
    It has massive value, perhaps not to you, perhaps not to me, but it is of national importance. Important enough that it's not worth losing viewers by showing a massive ratings show like The Sopranos.

    I'll say again... It's only a week. Why be so upset?

    Can't we decide ourselves if it's important enough to watch??


  • #47
    lodgepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭lodgepole


    You might be, I don't know. Maybe you're already well versed in the issues related to the election. I dare say many people aren't, and they're the people I would hope would tune in to watch it. Splitting the audience straight off the bat doesn't make any sense, is that not fairly clear?

    And again... a week?


  • #48
    liamdubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 159 ✭✭liamdubh


    Why don't you download it and watch it?

    No ads. HD-TV version available. It's 2007!


  • #49
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    liamdubh wrote:
    Why don't you download it and watch it?

    No ads. HD-TV version available. It's 2007!

    To paraphrase Walter Sobchak:

    This is not Nam! This is Boards, there are rules. Am I the only one who gives a damn about the charter around here?


  • #50
    liamdubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 159 ✭✭liamdubh


    Jeff_Lebowski wrote:
    To paraphrase Walter Sobchak:

    This is not Nam! This is Boards, there are rules. Am I the only one who gives a damn about the charter around here?

    We're not talking about the nuts and bolts of downloading TV shows. Like "OMFG check out this torrent http://blah.org/torrent12345!!!!!!&quot;

    Talking about why you would or wouldn't download illegal movie/tv files is a valid discussion in my view. Maybe the Mods would disagree?


  • #51
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Only six days to wait now :rolleyes:


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  • #52
    standbyme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭standbyme


    One thing's for sure, Bertie aint bashful, as he had to get the last word in by saying 'Go raibh maith agat' to Miriam. Fly fecker but we knew that already ;)


  • #53
    liamdubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 159 ✭✭liamdubh


    Bertie in The Sopranos?

    I can see it now.


  • #54
    standbyme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭standbyme


    At least we know now that Bertie can keep a secret after all those years!
    Him being the finance minister without a bank acc. & not leaving a paper trail, now that's crafty & cunning he'll go a long way :D

    Compared to Enda he's too innocent looking & wouldnt be able to keep a secret! :o


  • #55
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    RTE were absolutely correct in not giving the viewers the choice of The Sopranos over The Debate. RTE decided it was more important that we watch The Debate, and that was that.

    I'd like to see them take this idea a little further. How about eliminating any programming choice at all on the viewer's part - it's clear RTE knows best. And I wonder can they fix it so we can't turn the televisions off, just the volume down? Maybe we could replace the Angelas with a Two Minutes Hate too.


  • #56
    hot fuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭hot fuss


    Babybing wrote:
    This is SH1T:mad: A huge proportion of people simply dont give a sh1t about the b0ll0x these politicians spouts. Why shouldnt we have a choice of what we watch?


    Its not like watching those gobsh1tes makes a difference anyway. Its just a popularity contest based on personalities, does anyone believe anything these fellas say? Do you really think they will carry out the policies they say? This is nothing more than a vanity contest tonight. At least we would have been entertained with the sopranos. I fvcking despise RTE WITH EVERY OUNCE OF MY BODY.:mad: :mad:

    Does someone tie you to a chair and force you to watch RTÉ One or Two every night?!! You have a choice - they're called other television stations, or maybe not watching television at all!!

    Good God, it's only a week. Other people would be giving out if they had a big hitter like the sopranos up against the debate..

    RTÉ just issued a release saying that almost a million people watched the debate last night, so I reckon it was a good move on their part. It was purely public service and that's what they are there for afterall..


  • #57
    shane86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Ive been watching it for the 8 odd years its been on now, and Im nearly sure this is at least the 2nd or even 3rd false start to a season that we have had. Anyone else recall it before?

    Have to say, I wasnt hugely impressed by the last series (then again, watching the repeats on Channel 6 again it didnt really get going until season 2 imo)


  • #58
    Milktrolley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭Milktrolley


    For all their faults, RTÉ were right in their decision. Supposing RTÉ did show The Sopranos last night. There still would have been uproar. People would have complained that two heavyweight programmes were shown side by side. They would have likened it to Dublin Bus - you wait ages for something and then two come at once. 950,000 people watched the debate last night. I would assume that a considerable chunk of those would have been torn between the two RTÉ channels had Tony been on.

    I may very well be wrong here, but I gather that The Sopranos has a young-ish audience. There would have been criticism from people who believe that the government is alienating the young electorate that now RTÉ have followed suit.

    It's only seven more days. Granted, this debate should have been scheduled much earlier and then this could have been taken into account. That's the only fault I see RTÉ having here, and even so that may have been outside their control.


  • #59
    hot fuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭hot fuss


    Milktrolley wrote:
    For all their faults, RTÉ were right in their decision. Supposing RTÉ did show The Sopranos last night. There still would have been uproar. People would have complained that two heavyweight programmes were shown side by side. They would have likened it to Dublin Bus - you wait ages for something and then two come at once. 950,000 people watched the debate last night. I would assume that a considerable chunk of those would have been torn between the two RTÉ channels had Tony been on.

    I may very well be wrong here, but I gather that The Sopranos has a young-ish audience. There would have been criticism from people who believe that the government is alienating the young electorate that now RTÉ have followed suit.

    It's only seven more days. Granted, this debate should have been scheduled much earlier and then this could have been taken into account. That's the only fault I see RTÉ having here, and even so that may have been outside their control.

    Finally... someone talks sense!

    That is very true.


  • #60
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Nevertheless, RTE have advertised the season premieres in the preceeding weeks and days. It wouldn't take Mystic Meg to foresee that PrimeTime would be the venue for the TV debate, so it just smacks of bad planning on their part. And if they did feel they had to limit competition against the debate, they could have done so in a matter more agreeable to their audience. Instead they spring it on the audience at the 11th hour, and shunt it to a week later. It's either a case that RTE can't see past their own nose, or they simply don't care.

    Not wanting to distract the youth audience doesn't hold water either - I mean they replaced it with Road Trip!


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  • #61
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Stop spamming


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