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    Feckin hell that Ray Foley is the biggest waste of air time there has ever been!
    He's woeful bad.

    Like Superfrank, I caught the first 10 minutes of Katherine Lynch show
    last night and all I can say is that useless unfully waste of space robbed
    me of 10 minutes of my life.

    Saw a bit of Makin Jake the night before ... this must be the end of that lads
    "comedy career".

    RTE should refund licence fees until they start earning them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    RTE should refund licence fees until they start earning them!
    RTE should be made show where the licence fee money is being spent. It is ridiculous that it just gets dumped into large pool. Maybe TV3 have tried this already but I am sure they would like to know if licence fee money being spent to price them out of commercial bids. Would anyone be happy if licence fee money being paid to Katherine Lynch...
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete View Post
    RTE should be made show where the licence fee money is being spent. It is ridiculous that it just gets dumped into large pool. Maybe TV3 have tried this already but I am sure they would like to know if licence fee money being spent to price them out of commercial bids. Would anyone be happy if licence fee money being paid to Katherine Lynch...
    I remember i think it was Q&A where they where talking about the licence fee and the guy from TV3 said that RTE offer much cheaper airtime to advertisers undercutting TV3 who have to charge full price as they dont have a licence fee to beef up there funding.

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    Somebody in the house was watching that crime against comedy Katherine Lynch programme last night so endured about 10 minutes of it before heading of to read a book.Really patronising to the viewer the way she resorts to extremely crude lines in the absence of wit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cheifo View Post
    Somebody in the house was watching that crime against comedy Katherine Lynch programme last night so endured about 10 minutes of it before heading of to read a book.Really patronising to the viewer the way she resorts to extremely crude lines in the absence of wit.
    Christ, it was that bad

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    Quote Originally Posted by anto1208 View Post
    Christ, it was that bad
    RTE make chiefo read book shocker!
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    Yeh and I was too tired to read it once I had finished colouring it in.

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    Top 20 Programmes RTE 2
    (Weekending 13/1/08)

    3rd Makin' Jake Mon 9 295 3

    20th The Roaring Twenties Mon 4 128 16
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete View Post
    Top 20 Programmes RTE 2
    (Weekending 13/1/08)

    3rd Makin' Jake Mon 9 295 3

    20th The Roaring Twenties Mon 4 128 16
    I find it very hard to believe they got 295 viewers for that.

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    Was in a house on friday with no digital tv ( yes i was scared and confussed ) but saw that Lynch one on the Late late . Now while she isnt funny to me, she is just loud and annoying i think there is a market for her and as a public service broadcaster they have to cater for everyone.

    She reminds me of the kind of woman that wears a GAA mayo jersey and is all ways "only having the craic" and thinks going "OOOO HO HO GOWAN" is funny.

    Women are not funny if she was hot you might watch it but being old belted and fat doesnt make funny .

    The english class roaring twenties makin jake dont appeal to anyone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anto1208 View Post
    The english class roaring twenties makin jake dont appeal to anyone.
    What about the makers' mammies? I'm sure that they thought that they were great, even though they didn't really understand, they were sure that they were very good. Now they have to finish the ironing, so leave mammy be for a few minutes...

    Quote Originally Posted by Roadend View Post
    I find it very hard to believe they got 295 viewers for that.
    Take away about 45 people related to the show (those involved, their parents, and their unfortunate close friends). (250 viewers)
    Take away 30 people who fell asleep in front of the TV earlier in the evening without turning it off. (220 viewers)
    Take away 28 people who leave the TV on when leaving the house to go to the shops, to discourage people from breaking in (202 viewers)
    Take away the 21 people who turned it on and turned the volume down in order to look somethign up on Aertel (181 viewers)
    Take away 20 people who's job it is to monitor RTÉ for adverts, quality of picture, etc. (161 viewers)
    Take away the 19 people who passed in and out of an isolated pub that leaves on a TV showing only Irish channels with the sound turned down unless there is a match on (142 viewers)
    Take away 17 people who went out to make the tea after the last show ended without turning the telly off and ended up playing with the dog / the cat / themselves (125 viewers)
    Take away 16 people (including couples) who'd visitors in a bit before it started and just turned it down (109 viewers)
    Take away 15 people still on a phone call on the landline in the kitchen that came through during the last programme who didn't turn off the TV (94 viewers)
    Take away the 14 people either too stoned too realise or ODing before the show came on (80 viewers)
    Take away another 12 who happened to be in the country in a hotel tired and just having thrown some "local broadcasting" on to acclimatise to the language (68 viewers)
    Take away the 11 people visiting friends who are too ill-mannered to turn off the TV when they have a visitor in, and just turn it down (57 viewers)
    Take away the 11 people visiting friends who are discovering that they have either constipation or diarrhoea (46 viewers)
    Take away another 7 infants with parents that use the TV as a babysitter being traumatised by the fact that they don't have any access to a remote at times like these(39 viewers)
    Take away the 6 people who died in front of their TV set earlier that evening (33 viewers)

    So, if the RTÉ stats are correct, we now have an accurate figure (33) for people in Ireland who revel in seeing how bad RTÉ have become.
    That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.

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    Katherine Lynch's working girls

    Jesus wept.

    There are military coups that have been funnier than that abomination.

    "I have a funny accent. Ha ha ha! You know, I talk funny! Ha ha ha!"

    Aye. We couldn't help but notice, you noisy cow. Throw in an oul few jokes from this century if by some fluke or clerical error, you manage to get another gig, will ya?
    There's a good muppet.

    Now feck off.
    On the way into the stadium, an elderly San Marino Steward waved us in and said "Tonight, may the best team win"

    And they nearly did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anto1208 View Post
    Was in a house on friday with no digital tv ( yes i was scared and confussed ) but saw that Lynch one on the Late late.
    I actually saw some of that & it was so bad I had to watch it. Pat Kenny thought she was hilarous (lets be honest he could not fake a smile) what with all her cursing & such.

    Top 20 Programmes
    (Weekending 20/1/08)
    1 Desperate Housewives Tue 16 537k
    2 Katherine Lynch's Working Girls Tue 8 250k
    3 Home And Away Thu 7 237k
    Surely this was the numbers for Week One & so many people watching because it is so bad? The more likely reason it is getting a piggy back from the Housewives on before it
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete View Post

    Surely this was the numbers for Week One & so many people watching because it is so bad? The more likely reason it is getting a piggy back from the Housewives on before it
    It was. Jan 8. And it goes to show that despite them advertising the bollicks out of it, and pegging it into a prime timespot for the genre ( immediately post the stations Highly rated Female-aimed comedy import ) over HALF of the 537 thousand Housewives viewers disappeared before it even started..
    On the way into the stadium, an elderly San Marino Steward waved us in and said "Tonight, may the best team win"

    And they nearly did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bondvillain View Post
    It was. Jan 8. And it goes to show that despite them advertising the bollicks out of it, and pegging it into a prime timespot for the genre ( immediately post the stations Highly rated Female-aimed comedy import ) over HALF of the 537 thousand Housewives viewers disappeared before it even started..
    I know that but still high enough rating. Maybe half the Housewives viewers left their TVs on afterwards.

    Latest figures.

    (Weekending 27/1/08)
    1 Desperate Housewives Tue 14 474 1
    2 Katherine Lynch's Working Girls Tue 8 248 3
    3 Home And Away Thu 7 234 6
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    Alright. Fair enough.


    My only hope now is that Neilsen gave their Rating boxes to complete fúcking morons.

    Thats my only explanation.
    On the way into the stadium, an elderly San Marino Steward waved us in and said "Tonight, may the best team win"

    And they nearly did.

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    Roaring Twenties crew manipulate Imdb?

    Hmmm... Curiouser and curiouser....

    1 week ago ( on imdb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121919/ ) Irish sitcom "The Roaring Twenties" had 3 negative text comments - including one from me : I very much enjoyed factually dissecting it's faults in print. Im funny like that - and 3 visible user ratings of 1 star (out of ten)

    This week, 2 of the three negative comments have been removed (including mine) for "Abuse" , and 3 anonymous IMDB members have suddenly appeared and voted it 10 stars out of 10, which has had the effect of increasing its score from 1 star to 5.9 stars...

    To be honest, I'd been trying to forget about the whole shambolic exercise, but the 'removal for abuse' email has piqued my interest again....It's bad enough that they've created one of the most terrible television programmes ever made, but to attempt a Stailinesque purge of any negativity surrounding it has made me even more determined to spread the word....
    On the way into the stadium, an elderly San Marino Steward waved us in and said "Tonight, may the best team win"

    And they nearly did.

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    Heard that Katherine Lynch show has been commissioned for 6 more episodes!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Heard that Katherine Lynch show has been commissioned for 6 more episodes!
    Haha! Now that's some proper comedy from RTE.
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