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A RUMOUR THAT simply refuses to die is the suggestion that RTE said no when offered Father Ted more than 20 years ago, but don’t let that make you think the classic priestcom’s writers have any time for our national broadcaster.
Graham Linehan, one half of Ted’s writing team with Arthur Mathews, has taken to Twitter to deliver a particularly scorching burn regarding RTE’s approach to original comedy.
He begins the tirade by suggesting that giving the sitcom to RTE back in 1994 would have been counter-productive as they were ‘useless’ at the time.
The sitcom in question, The Walshes, was broadcast for three episodes in early 2014 before being discontinued after the BBC and RTE, who co-funded the production, passed on an extension.
Linehan’s primary frustration appears to be that it was the first time he had written specifically for an Irish audience since Father Ted and yet he was unable to get a response from the broadcaster.
This has led to some Twitter users nodding in agreement:
While this guy sees it as more a case of art imitating life:
You can read the full tirade on Linehan’s timeline, beginning here.
An RTE spokesperson gave TheJournal.ie this response when asked about the suggestion writers can’t get a response from them regarding their work:
“RTE is serious about supporting new writing, and will continue to do so.”
The prestigious win for Love/Hate at this weekend’s Celtic Media Awards, beating the BBC’s Sherlock as Best Drama, and recent awards for the latest Storyland series on RTE Player, including Shaun Blaney’s award for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the International Academy of Web Television Awards earlier this month, are testament to RTE’s commitment to developing new writers and new writing.
Regarding The Walshes itself, the station says it was “very proud” of and “very happy” with the series.
However, as a part funder, RTE was not in a position to provide majority funding once the BBC decided not to recommission the series.
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McAfee is like a real life Hank Scorpio
Awweee the Denver broncos!
Breaking news: John McAfee to change his surname to ‘Intel- Security’.
His comment is priceless
In fairness he’s right too, constant pop ups, overpriced, and bloatware. Hate McCrapffe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
Haha that’s some of the maddest shizzle I ever did see..I love him!
It’s a real killer though.
Nothing will put me off purchasing a new laptop / desktop than the sales guy saying “and it comes with anti virus software pre-installed”
not difficult to uninstall, don’t let that put you off.
Bought 3 laptops in my time. First thing i did with them was a full format. Lots of manufacturers crap comes with one. Background running memory eating crap.
Seems like the man himself is a virus
Such wit hiding behind that beard. Who’d have guessed?
I thank McAfee because they are the best at putting viruses on my computer and then even better at protecting me from that same virus ..
Ever notice how your computer always got infected just before your subscription was up ?
Same with norton, I have no virus protection on my comp and heyyyyyy gues what no viruses. Companys cteate them to get then to buy their bullshit
That’s just such bullshit, Dave! Too many AVP’s are resource heavy but very few are designed with any sort of malicious intent, esp the popular ones!
Too may people becoming stupidly cynical about these things. There are literal craptonnes of dedicated and independent communities that test, monitor and disassemble AV softwares in order to find out their true efficacy. And nobody has yet proven it to be true for the biggest players, barring Norton a few years ago with the whole ‘PIFTS.exe’ thing; when they attempted to censor people who found potentially dangerous flaws in the software.
Complacency is by far the most dangerous thing when it comes to security, be it online or personal, You may not require any third party protection, but for every one of you there are a hundred that really do, and if they decide to go without it then no matter how careful *you* are; you’ll be subjected to the inadequacies in and lackadaisical ‘use’ of resources by others.
He’s the sort of crazy SOB I’d want associated with my company
So who is more excited with the name change?
He killed his neighbour? That’s real cyber crime
Belize is in Central America.
Isn’t that where Mike went on ‘vacation’ in Breaking Bad?!!!
His comments are a bit harsh. Symantec is the worst software on the planet. McAfee only gets silver.
Check out YouTube video I posted here, it’s very funny. It’s not a vid on how to uninstall, it’s mcafee himself taking the pi#s
Watched it, it’s hilarious!!
That McAfee antivirus kills anything that gets in its way…..
He is really chuck norris stupid evil twin
McAfee ? anti virus ? What are these of which you speak…..
I laughed so much at his spectacular comment! Brilliant!
They’d wanna do more than just change the name
Now that’s what you call a well lived in face if ever I saw one.
You’d think he could afford better highlights too.
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