Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! | |
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Genre | Situation comedy |
Written by | Morgan Jones |
Starring | Nuala Holloway Morgan Jones Lise Ann McLaughlin Lorraine Pilkington Norman Rodway Peter Vollebregt |
Country of origin | Ireland |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Production locations | Studio 1, RTÉ Television Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | RTÉ 1 |
Release | 3 November 22 December 1993 | –
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! is an Irish television sitcom that aired on RTÉ 1 for one season in 1993. The show was written by and starred stand-up comedian Morgan Jones.[1]
The show was notable for its negative reception. Writing in the the Connacht Sentinel, journalist Declan Tierney gave the program a negative review: "to say that this is a pathetic attempt at comedy is being kind to "Extra! Extra! Read All About It!"" and stated "the only indication that it is a comedy comes from the canned laughter, which is over-done and often goes on for so long that it is impossible to hear the start of the next sentence". [2] Writer Colm Tóibín stated Extra! Extra! was "probably the worst program RTÉ has ever shown". [3] Extra! Extra! was later included in an Irish Independent list of the worst Irish TV programs. [1]
References
- ^ a b "The worst Irish TV shows EVER!". Irish Independent. 28 October 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
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(help) - ^ Tierney, Declan. "New "Comedy" Sets the cringe alarms ringing". Connacht Sentinel, November 9th, 1993, pg. 9.
- ^ Tóibín, Colm "The Very Worst, Anywhere". The Sunday Independent, November 14th, 1993 pg. 17.