Reeling In The Tears

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Liveline host Joe Duffy

Liveline.

On de telly.

Joe Duffy spoke on Mornings With Dave Fanning on RTÉ Radio One this morning to talk about his new six-part TV show, which will be called Call Back.

“It’s like Reeling In The Liveline, trying to trace back what happened various people’s stories, projects that were helped, that were supported, people that came on the programme over the years, what happened them after the programme, what happened, the issues they raised, what happened the projects that Liveline got involved in.

I’ve been pushing the idea for a few years but now it looks like its day has come, we’re making a six-part series. We’ve made a pilot. We had to make a pilot first and showed it to the powers-that-be and they liked it and they’ve commissioned six of them and they’ll be going out between now and Christmas.”

“The nature of Liveline, as you know, is a very rolling, very energetic daily programme, subjects change within the programme, subjects change within the week and sometimes, when one issue is raised and people ring and say we’ll help, we’ll do this, we’ll try and get someone home from America, we’ll try and repatriate this, we’ll try and help that A&E unit, we’ll try and help that family in whatever, by the time the next Liveline comes around, it’s moved on to, as always happens, to more urgent topics, so it’s a simple thing, people are always stopping me saying, ‘whatever happened the family of’, ‘whatever happened that house you built’…”

FIGHT!

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33 thoughts on “Reeling In The Tears

  1. norm

    Jooooe Duffy, good luck with the show Joe.Many,s a day you kept me company,whilst I tramped round Ireland in a truck( usually running late or stuck in traffic)Perhaps these stories and dramas reminded me there were folk with more immediate concerns and traumas in their lives,rather than some idiot wanting to know where I was and what time I was going to make a Delivery.

  2. Medium Sized C

    “What ever happened to that lad from Dalkey who wrote that book that slagged off a load of working class areas in Dublin, but got pilloried for including Ballyfermot?”

      1. Clampers Outside!

        Forget the pedantry, I’ve never known of a human being to play off the bael bocht so much in me life… it’s all fakery at this point.

        The man does a good job for those that need raising of an issue, but the fauxerity is just painful.

  3. Mr. T.

    New Autumn schedule also includes:

    “Best of the Weather” with Needy Carey – a look back at the highlights of the post nine news weather forecasts of the last 20 years.

    “Angelus Bloopers” Hilarious out-takes and unseen footage of people being still and contemplative but totally laughing their asses off.

    “Guess which Season” Mary-Louise O’Donnell brings us a totally new program where you have to guess the original broadcast season of a variety of repeats of lifestyles shows.

    1. Clampers Outside!

      I spilt me tae over this one… ““Angelus Bloopers” Hilarious out-takes and unseen footage of people being still and contemplative but totally laughing their asses off.” :)

  4. Sheikh Yahbooti

    This along with Fair City should keep the water protesters off the streets and perhaps convince them to buy TV licences…

  5. rotide

    That’s actually not a bad idea for a tv show, especialy given how popular liveline is.

    Stories on Wes Anderson and Craft beer will be thin on the ground so you guys won’t like it. There might be the odd gay though.

  6. Caroline

    How is this not a perfect idea for an RTE show? I’m surprised it took him years to convince them.

  7. Mr. T.

    “So Bernie, did ye ever manage to get that hood for your son’s jacket for the two eeeuuuuuro?”

    “I did Joe. Didn’t I get it in the end down in Thomas Street”

    “Go ‘way”

  8. mike

    Been anticipating this for years. I’ll tune in. Hopefully I will recall some of the radio episodes. But then I also watch “Adoption Stories” on TV3 and such-like.

    [No, I’m not Joe].

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