RTÉ One is delighted to announce that the world-renowned entertainment format Dancing with the Stars is to air in the New Year!
— RTE One (@RTEOne) August 3, 2016
Dancing With The Stars will be produced by @ShinawilTV for RTÉ and will air on RTÉ One in early 2017!
— RTE One (@RTEOne) August 3, 2016
“We are delighted to be bringing such a hugely popular format as Dancing with the Stars to RTÉ One…we are confident that Irish audiences will take this home-grown version to their hearts. Family entertainment shows are a cornerstone of what RTÉ One is all about.”
Adrian Lynch, Channel Controller, RTÉ One and RTÉ2.
*Cha-cha-chas over imaginary telly licence*
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Oh dear…
Karl Spain as the bumbling contestant? Jennifer Maguire brings the sass but is ultimately grateful for the experience and making new “friends? Majella O’Donnell as the ringer? Bald dude off Fair City? David Norris? PJ Gallagher a MUST! Lucinda if the budget stretches.
Can’t wait….
Marty Morrissey
Brian Ormond
Marty Whelen
Twink
Brenda Donohue
Katrine Thomas
**As long as they don’t clash with their other RTE duties.
Shut it down already.
– some Dublin GAA gouger
– one of those digital influencer OMG Snapchat birds
– an ITV/BBC hasbeen
– a Labour pol who lost his seat
– a female RTE polcor type
A rugby person and an Irish model who goes out with or used to go out with a rugby person.
also
– a token gay.
– perhaps a slightly brown person. like brown but not ethnic?
– certainly no travellers or persons with a disability.
just the incestuous circle-jerking élite
– someone who had cancer/depression and recovered
– a trendy priest
Almost certainly Majella O’Donnell.
And Gerry Keane undoubtedly
Mary O’Rourke in the Anne Widdicomb role.
Fidelma Healy Eames
Hughie from Big Brother!
Lol
a Healy-Rae
Gerry Hutch
Twink
George Hook
Catherine Nevin
The Strypes
Bodger
Fr Michael Cleary (deceased).
Heh.
(to the deceased entry, obv).
Former Senator James Heffernan?
oh no, not more RTE horse manure. Dreadful. Hosted by Mike Murphy or Gay Byrne. FFS.
Brian Ormond probably. Or Westlife guy.
Since they need to find ‘vehicles’ for their ‘talent’.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/10/14/westlife-songs-used-in-cia-torture/
Wonder what RTE paid for the franchise ….
A young irish tv cook with zero industry experience and well placed relatives working in rté
Skehan Sunday?
Of course. And teamed up with the gamey older woman, i.e. Twink.
I’ll have a fiver on a Seoige…
Maybe an all-encompassing show, that puts Singing, Dancing, Cooking and house renovations, starring of course celebrities like Sean 0’DillyODeamhas and Maura H’aonDoTrí could be produced. 4 hours per day, 365 days of the year.
Sure isn’t that what we all like?
Have we met Paddy?
Bressie
Senator Jerry Buttimer
Lottie Ryan
Miriam O’C
Kenny Egan
Random former Rose of Tralee
Jean Byrne
Bernard Brogan
Stephen Hunt
Nathan Carter
Marie Louise O’Donnell
TG4 Tottie
Glenda Gilson
I think you win
Beyoncé
Justin Timberlake
Christine Lagarde
Justin Trudeau
Shakira
Bruce Springsteen
Nathan Carter
Melania Trump
So the BS massive have decreed the following shall appear
Marty Morrissey
Brian Ormond
Marty Whelen
Brenda Donohue
Katrine Thomas
Majella O’Donnell
Gerry Keane
Mary O’Rourke
Fidelma Healy Eames
Gerry Hutch
George Hook
James Heffernan
Bressie
Senator Jerry Buttimer
Lottie Ryan
Miriam O’C
Kenny Egan
Jean Byrne
Bernard Brogan
Stephen Hunt
Nathan Carter
Marie Louise O’Donnell
Glenda Gilson
Twink Twink Twink
And someone from the following categories if not included in the above
Random former Rose of Tralee
TG4 Tottie
Someone who had cancer/depression and recovered
A trendy priest
Some Dublin GAA gouger
One of those digital influencer OMG Snapchat birds
An ITV/BBC has been
A Labour pol who lost his seat
A female RTE polcor type
BUT
No one mentioned drag queen extraordinaire … Anne Doyle?
What about Panti Bliss. A must
Jean Byrne is the new Anne Doyle.
Add in :
Slane Girl
Flat Cap
Frostbit Boy
Female Sindo columnist
Charity plugger
Brendan * I am mean* O Connor
Amy * I am nice* Huberman
Fair City reject
Bodger & Jules
Another gig for Daithi O Sė
Hilarious comments PLEASE revisit this thread when they announce the line up, it will be scarily accurate. But FFS do we really owe these people a living? Why do RTE create these shows to keep these cretins in work
That’s unfair, Lotti Ryan has worked for years to make a breakthrough with RTE.
Is her nickname ‘Lottery Ryan’?
It should be
Can RTE actually come up with or encourage an original idea? Everything on the damn channel is an Irish version of Next Top [insert profession], in this case celebrity dancer. Don’t even know why they spend serious money on importing things like this when they’re actively ripping off UK TV shows left, right, centre.
Monkey Tennis?
Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank?
It’s there to be done
Celebrity Newsreading. Featuring relations of former newsreaders.?
A definite winner, Paddy – although I’m very drawn to Otis’ suggestions above.
The Restaurant is a good one now
Be fair
And that Lyrics Board
Now gone
Its wasn’t everyones mug’a tay
But it had wider appeal
Frilly, they couldn’t even hold on to The Restaurant – TV3 were delighted to pick it up.
*Whispers* I also enjoyed Lyrics Board and Music of the Night with Tony Kenny.
Michael Noonan can drag himself around the floor with Mary Harney at the intervals.
Nearly wet myself reading that.
The best part of this news is that they have silenced The Voice to do it.
http://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2016/0803/806722-rte-swaps-the-voice-for-dancing-with-the-stars/
Still, it will give Kathryn Thomas an opportunity to spend time actually getting fit.
Ha!
The news is bound to be a blow for presenter Kathryn Thomas who has fronted the show since the very start in 2012.
Thomas remained upbeat about the news saying that “it’s been an incredible journey over the past five years” and said she’s looking forward to presenting Celebrity Operation Transformation on RTÉ in the coming weeks.
so we’ve run out of talentless halfwits from the general public willing to humiliate themselves on national tv and are going back to talentless halfwits from the celeb élite willing to humiliate themselves on national tv
That’s about the size of it.
Ohh sugar or words to that effect.
The long slow mangled tango with the thick ankles or big feet.
Suppose, like ye know, plenty of the usual GAA lads.
Now, Dustin would be the ideal host, for that.
Hang on – did RTE buy the format from ABC in the states?
Because they bought it from the BBC and renamed it – Strictly Come Dancing. Did RTE really just buy Strictly Come Dancing?
So they’re replacing The Voice, a BBC format, with Strictly, a BBC format, but using the American name we’re less familiar with to downplay the fact they’re a bargain basement, awfully executed BBC rip-off?