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THE LATE LATE Show might have returned last night, but TV3 bosses don’t seem to be paying much attention to what Ryan Tubridy and Co. are doing.
Nearly 12 years after The Dunphy Show was cancelled, TV3 is in no mood to go back head-to-head with RTÉ on the chat show scene.
“Is it back on Friday?,” says TV3′s director of content Lynda McQuaid when asked if she’ll be watching Ryan’s return. “I think I have plans”.
“To be perfectly honest, my whole things about chat shows is, we have Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross on 3e, they rate hugely well.”
“Even old repeats down the line repeat really well. The problem in Ireland, for me, is we’ve a very small pool and we’re all fishing in for the same guests. So it’s very hard to attract those sort of names.”
McQuaid was speaking at the launch of TV3′s autumn schedule, just a few days after X Factor returned. She says that Irish audiences are under served by Irish versions these large scale entertainment shows but that competing with such international juggernauts is next to impossible.
The former You’re A Star producer says this is why an ‘Ireland’s Got Talent’ type show is probably not worthwhile.
“Britain’s Got Talent is no longer Britain’s Got Talent, they send production teams all over the world. The magician from Vegas, they went out to Vegas to see the act. We’re an island of four million people, we’re never going to have those budgets.”
House Rules
McQuaid says that such shows probably aren’t unique enough either and wouldn’t feel ”typical to TV3″. Instead, she points to the upcoming series House Rules, a show she describes as “The Apprentice on steroids”.
The show is an Australian concept and sees couples competing to renovate each others houses. The winning couple will have their mortgage paid off and the series has been a ratings success in other markets.
Another returning show is the Great Irish Bake Off. These kind of shows are closer to the “big event food” type shows that TV3 are pushing, away from the older type of cookery shows that have a celebrity chef making recipes on camera.
On the flipside though, TV3 wants to sell content abroad and those type of cookery and lifestyle shows are much more transferable.
“We are capable of making content that sells off the island,” McQuaid says, “and what really excites me about Liberty Global coming in is that there’s a possibility and an opportunity where, we might not be making stuff that would really resonate with an Irish audience, but it would resonate in sales.”
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Well done girls. Now back to the kitchen to cook for your menfolk. There’s a 3 week pile of ironing that’s built up too.
And don’t forget the dusting
Jasus 3 weeks. They may look after there man in the bedroom too.
Just because they play football doesn’t mean they’re all straight.
Wow Beachmaster what a way to crash the party.
Not like twitter to be overly sensitive. Is there anything factually incorrect about the tweet? No. This seemingly constant need to be offended is the thing I find most offensive these days!
It must be hell to be a professional comedian nowadays. Anything you say is judged in the same way that football newbies judged every slightly negative thing that Dunphy and Giles said during Italia ’90.
Well bacoxy, ask yourself why it’s never said about men…?
That’s always a good barometer of what’s PC and what’s not.
If it’s not a standard that’s applied to both genders then there is cause for annoyance.
But as a white male living in the western world you probably don’t have to consider these things.
Hope that helps for future reference and why people are annoyed.
You came dangerously close to mentioning White privilege there.
Isn’t sexism the treatment of or perception that women are in some way inferior to men? What’s sexist about calling a woman a mother, daughter or sister?
@beano – it’s the way they did it. It’s not just that it was sexist. It was also patronising. These women didn’t stop being mothers, partners or daughters when they put on the jersey. Plus, the men don’t get tweets from the FA saying the men are going back to being sons, partners and fathers.
Whenever I read an article about a twitter outrage fest it makes me hope WW3 kicks off sooner rather than later
Factually, the vast majority of mothers I know are heroes already. They don’t need to win a football title to become one. Not winning a football title doesn’t make them less of one. Part of the problem with society is undervaluing the work of a mother, or father for that matter, in the home. They are shaping future doctors, scientists, architects, builders, leaders, parents, and yeah, footballers of tomorrow.
Similar is said about men too Abbi, just not in football because they are viewed as obscenely wealthy professionals. It’s often mentioned about GAA players heading back to milk the cows, or there were similar things said about the Irish cricket team when they took the World Cup by storm and then had to head home to normal jobs. You can’t compare male and female footballers as though they are the same because of the insane money in the men’s game, but in sports against which women’s football would be comparable sentiments like this are pretty common.
Maybe the fact that while at the world cup representing their country they were still “wives, mothers and daughters” as women are capable of being more than one thing at any given time.
Once I finish this moderately successful post I will return to be a single childless loser. :(
Twitter needs to be killed. We would be much better without it.
It annoys me when an article is supplemented by a hape of meaningless tweets from folk I’ve never heard of.
Apparently it gives it “colour”. Lazy journalism in my opinion.
*supplemented with? Damn it anyway. Where’s Tap Solny when I need her?
As you comment using your Twitter account…
According to feminists, it is offensive to acknowledge that women are a separate gender. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
please do explain this comment. where did this information come from?
PC gone mad ;-)
You’re blaming the computer? I bet the FA wished they’d though of that.
The English football fans are funny. Coming third is a decent achievement but I wouldn’t call them heroes. They always over hype themselves.
In fairness if you take a step back and look we do the same, we’re still talking about Italia 90 where we drew four games and lost one, if our women’s team came third in a World Cup we’d probably be naming streets and bridges after the players.
We think the English hype is peculiar because we get to see it as outsiders due to the fact we watch so much English TV, they’re entitled to hype their own national team if they want to it’s their own media after all, who are we to say otherwise.
Twitter outrage is like cheering in a large crowd even though you don’t know what the crowd started cheering at…
Nothing offensive here ffs!!
Stop cursing please.
Gawd! How DARE people be mildly annoyed by a thing! What kind of world do we live in where people can express their opinion freely? When will it ever end? ;_;
When our lads come back from the Rugby world cup, they ll go back to being husbands partners and sons.
This just proves there will never be a shortage of people that get offended on other people’s behalf.
Thank God they have husbands, that’s all I can say.
Because they’re absolutely shit at football.
In terms of skill the women’s world cup is the equivalent of watching Scottish League 3 football.
And if anyone has ever been unfortunate enough to have watched a game from that division then you’ll know why the average attendance is about 3 and a half people.
I’d rather listen to Serena Williams grunting for 40 minutes (the average time span of her matches) than watch a ladies football game.
There’s easier ways to get brain damage.
I’ve a strong suspicion any one of those women would make absolute sh*t out of you on a soccer pitch.
My local pub team could thrash the England’s ladies team.
At closing time.
For God’s sake relax. Let’s remember the real issue here, women’s football is shockingly bad :)
Yawn, keyboard warriors are bored obviously
…says the one who’s bored…
“three lions on a skirt……..”
Western corporate feminism at its finest.
everone of them falls into at least one of those.
A lot of PC whackjobs who completely miss the point and don’t bother their hole to do some research.
political correctness gone mental , I want my masculinity back , whatever happened to Gary Cooper , the strong silent type.
Alex Scott though…
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