go on, go on, go on, go on
We had Black History Month, there are at least 3 or 4 all-french TV channels, daily hour-long news in Cantonese and Italian.
We have BBC World and Coronation Street, A Touch of Frost, Doctor Who and of course Monty Python all regularly shown on TV.
There is a Little Italy part of town and a Little Portugal, GreekTown and a few Chinatowns.
All great.
And the Irish?
We have a half hour a week, well, some weeks, of this.
An American-based program, to quote them - "news, culture and entertainment program presenting the best of modern Ireland in a magazine format".
The woman who presents it is actually quite entertaining, in a 'my god she's not very good at this' way. She has a pause-and-neck-twitch-thing going on.
So, purely in the interests of balance and not just because it makes me laugh till I cry, a couple of small examples of the genius that was Father Ted.
posted by Amanda @ 11:57 a.m.
3 Comments:
yeah well wait until the papers next week with all the Patrick's Day references - if you said some of that stuff about Caribana or Chinese New Year you'd be lynched. There's an Irish hour on CHKT1430 at 11 on Saturdays but it's a bit diddly-eye for me especially on the music side.
There is this proposal btw
http://www.torontoirishnews.com/irish-tv.html
not really sure what I might have said that may get me lynched. I was just trying(and obviously failing)in a humourous way to point out the lack of Irish representation in the Canadian media.
Especially, as you said, next week everyone will suddenly be Irish.
didn't mean what you said :)
I mean what even papers like NOW write about P's day.
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