The Bridget and Eamon episode where they create episodes of Knight Rider, ALF, Golden Girls and MacGuyver for two escaped convicts... and the finale “you have ruined my life” Dirty Dancing scene…. Awesome #IrishTV
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Bad Sisters Season Two Review
#BadSisters #BadSistersSeason2 #AppleTV #IrishTV #comedyseries #blackcomedy #tv #tvreview
https://popculturemaniacs.com/bad-sisters-season-two-review/
A legend of #IrishSports has passed. A man who combined his love for #Gaeilge and #GAA. Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh will be greatly missed
@Gina I'd gladly follow that.
There's #IrishTV already and #IrishMovies has a few posts. Maybe a new one is needed? #IrishMoviesAndShows ?
Hey folks, hope you all had a good day yesterday wither you were celebrating Christmas or not. Hope you had a great day. and I hope you’re having a great day reading this today on whatever day it is when you read it. Were now in that part of Christmas between Christmas and new years.
It’s less of an issue now a days because I’ve rarely had that much time off. But when I was a kid the week off between then when it wasn’t a week day it was not Christmas day or new years.
You were in a kind of middle timeless zone. It’s an odd time because the tv isn’t regular tv there’s films on and things. Maybe the regular presenters are still not back.
Actually speaking of telly to go on a tangent, was there ever another kids show like The Den? Here in Ireland where the presenters would find themselves on Christmas eve helping Santa Clause or going on some big festive adventure. Zig and Zag, Dustin and Socky have saved Christmas I don’t know how many times.
Not to say we took it for granted or anything these felt epic. I should say for people a bit younger or folks out of the republic of Ireland. The Den was a show where presenter Ian Dempsey followed by lots of others during the years would be joined by very colourful characters originally Zig and Zag two aliens from the planet Zog who had made earth and Dublin city their home. And on Christmas eve they would somehow end up at the north poll where if you can belive it the once apparently a puppet (although they were faking being a puppet) Podge tired to stop Christmas from happening. Zig and Zag, later Dustin and Socky and the presenter would then save the day.
But here’s the thing about the den. the den wasn’t a adventure series. The Den was actually more of a programing block. in the evenings they would show kids tv shows. and The Den was a kind of a wrap around where they would tell you what was coming up, what you’d just seen. But in that it was a kind of univserse in itself.
There was Ted a teddy bear that would fly in and attack Ray Darcey (one of the presenters of the Den) There was Podge and later Rodge two villain characters (podge and rodge would go on to have two late night series of their own both very un kid friendly but completely hilarious) there was also Zuppy a puppy from Zog there was Socky a sock monster and of course Dustin the turkey who had many hit songs as well as a eurovison entry.
I’ll be honest folks when I started writing today I thought I’d write about that point in time in between Christmas and new years but here we are talking about this utterly iconic tv show. The people behind all of this I are geniuses. I don’t say that lightly they truly are. I mean there’s a reason Zig and Zag are equally iconic in the UK where they had other tv shows.
All this to say, Thank you Zig, Zag, Dustin and Socky and all the brilliant presenters for saving Christmas.
Well, eh. is it still a tangent if you never get back to the original thing?
anyway hope you’re all having a great day and see ya next time where who knows what I’ll talk about.
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Enjoying #RoseOfTralee this year. Loving the diversity... So far been an #Autistic rose, an #ADHD rose, severly #Dylexic rose...
Had an old cry there watching the Clare Rose. What a strong woman.
2 #Autistic Roses in the Rose of Tralee this year 🎉
Hurray for more #Neurodiverse representation on #IrishTV
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0815/1399894-roses-pride-at-representing-autistic-people-in-tralee/
Friday, March 7, 1980 - #RTE2
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Wednesday, March 5, 1980 on #RTE1
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Tuesday, March 4, 1980 on #RTE2
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I looked through the hard drive I used for my Saorview box a couple of years ago. Found a few episodes of Cat Hospital. @colm_ryan - there was a familiar face and cat in one episode. :)
There's the documentary on Brendan Grace, First Dates Ireland, a Nationwide in Connemara, The Story of Irish Street Art documentary, and even the Podge and Rodge Christmas Special from 2019, @DoubleZCreative !
Loved the feature piece on RTE1 last night about the independent toy stores around Ireland.
Quirky, nerdy, sweet, wonderful. And that was just the owners and staff. Nice one RTE. Great simple viewing.
You don’t need to know my age but i can tell you, those who watched Bosco are in my age category. Just in case you were wondering like…
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