After Your Bad Self, RTE continues to pump out new material as they test the ground in the new year. Apart from season premiers of ER, Grey's Anatomy, Entourage, and Brothers & Sisters, there's a lot of homegrown shizz going down.
First up is Project Ha Ha, where four comedy pilots will run every Monday throughout the month of January. Dead Cat Bounce, Diet of Worms, David McSavage and an ensemble piece featuring comedians such as Bernard O'Shea, Collum McDonnell and Carol Tobin are all included.
Here's a taster of Diet of Worms' excellent Dublin Stories series, which has already been developed and matured online:
Lucy Kennedy also gets her own late night series in the new year, imaginatively titled 'The Lucy Kennedy Show'. There's an Ireland's Got Talent series called 'The All Ireland Talent Show' presented by Grainne Seoige and featuring a host of other RTE heads, and perhaps most interestingly is ex-New York Dog and Blogorrah publisher John Ryan's stab at Daily Show fame with 'This Is Nightlive', a satirical news broadcast.
Pass la popcorn, as they say in the States
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Looking forward to Diet of Worms and Dead Cat Bounce.
I pity the poor social lives of whoever it was in RTE who decided that Lucy Kennedy was magnetic enough to get her own chat show. Off the top of my head I can think of a dozen comedians who could really do something interesting with that format. Lucy just isn't funny. She does that horrible Irish pretty girl thing of saying something snide under her breath before "remembering" where she is. Caroline Morahan does it too. Just because you smile doesn't make you any funnier, love. John Ryan's Anchorman-Day Today thing look appalling. Still, RTE are giving Diet of Worms a half hour of television so maybe they're slowly beginning to wise up.
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