I like RTÉ. I like the fact that we still have some kind of public service TV in Ireland. I like Prime Time and I watch the news and I detest TV3 (When Agenda was on TV3, then they had a total of 1 programme I would watch).
However, apart from the rugby today, for the past 24 hours RTÉ sems to be broadcasting complete and utter twaddle.
I was watching the TV last night - mostly, I was waiting for Jonathan Ross - and I was unfortunate enough to see part of the Late Late Show. There was this solicitor on - Keane is his name. Well, some time ago, this guy appointed himself as a celebrity. He engaged with some reporters from the Sunday Independent and suddenly he was news on the back pages.
Clearly, The Late Late Show was out of ideas, because he was a guest on the show last night. I didn’t watch for long enough, so maybe there was a point to this. Basically, it seemed that he was on the show to talk about himself. He said that he didn’t want to die leaving behind “5 or 10 million” (and then he thought “hang on, I’m underselling myself”) so he continued “or 20 or 40 million”. Whew, got out of that one - what if people thought he was only worth 10 million? The embarrassment. In the middle of the interview, this solicitors surgically enhanced girlfriend was interviewed from where she was sitting in the audience. Truly, she looked frightening. Her dad refused to sit beside her in the audience.
Enough said.
Today, after the rugby match, I switched over to RTÉ 1, where there was a song competition on. The journalist Brendan O’Connor, a girl that I don’t know and KEET Duffy of Boyzone were the judges. This is a low-cost version of X-factor, complete with good guy, bad guy and token girl. Truly awful stuff.
RTÉ should stick to public service TV and let the commercial stations do the stuff that RTÉ cannot do - specifically, light entertainment. This kind of cringe-inducing nonsense really doesn’t do them any favours.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI accidentally switched over to RTE last night and caught a few minutes of the Late Late show too. My television license is up for renewal this week and I briefly considered just doing away with the TV entirely rather than continuing to finance that dreck.
The “entertainment” they had was the comedian they usually use to warm up the audience before the show starts. I have never seen a less funny comic in my life. How desperate do they have to be to try a stunt like that? I wouldn’t be surprised if next week they have an exclusive interview with their own producer.
Indeed, Dave B, I have been considering getting rid of my TV too. The internet has all the news I might need. I can download movies or play DVDs on my laptop. Becoming a bit redundant these TV things.
I hardly ever watch television these days. I watched CSI last night and fell into a coma shortly there after. It’s the not drinking you see, when you’re slightly drunk everything is more tolerable. Although having said that I’d have to be drinking turpentine to find Pat the Plant and his cohorts watchable.
In Ireland theres this ‘Any auld monkey can do the job’ Attitude about anything involving public money. I seem to recall reading that TG4 has made more money from selling its programming concepts abroad then from advertising….
So I ask you, why do we pay a TV License fee for a station that employs Pat Kenny?
Pat Kenny? That’s nothing. What about the fact that Gerry Ryan is being paid by the TV licence…or even being allowed to live?
That man say ‘lurry’ instead of lorry. Had I a cross bow with enough tension and an arrow strong enough to penetrate that hide he would be no more.
FMC - from one assassin to another - it is frustrating when you find that engineering hasn’t advanced enough to provide you with the tools to do a job.
Bloody engineers.
I used to be annoyed that I can’t get RTE up here, but it looks like I’m not missing out on much…