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Updated 23.12pm
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news…
Aer Lingus plane takes off at Dublin Airport. (PA Image)
The wreckage of a helicopter in Norfolk where four people were killed including, Dr Edward Haughey. (PA Image)
#NEW YORK: An eighth body was recovered from the Manhattan apartment buildings destroyed in a gas explosion.
#MALAYSIAN AIRLINES: The US Navy sent in another ship to search for the missing liner.
#CRIMEA: Last-ditch talks between US and Russia on Crimea ended in failure.
Here’s what Glenn Ford did after he was released from prison this week after serving 26 years for a murder he did not commit. [The Atlantic]
Originally published 9pm
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Was a novelty back in the day but if watching people sit around a house is more interesting than what you can do yourself in your own house…well, I don’t know what to tell you.
@ecrowley ecrowley: you’re ok, I’m not looking for advice pet.
@Jen McC: but you listened to him pet fair play
@Shane C: twas a joke to be fair. Very serious nowadays on The Journal.
The irony.
@ecrowley ecrowley: Gogglebox is excellent and that is just watching people watch tv.
Much the same set up as the Dáil I’d say.
Bring back Quicksilver
@Shelly Levine: loved the guy on the organ giving musical hints. So out of it that the enigma code breakers wouldn’t have been able to spot the links between the music and the answers. Should have been given his own show.
I’ll give it a chance, hopefully a new format or a little bit different, it might have a few characters and not just wannabes.
@KTH: IT’s goingto be filled with influencer wannabees and well you know it.
You’d have to wonder about the kind of person who can read 1984 and come away with ‘I think there’s a good TV show in that.’
@Ignatius J Reilly: Really? It’s hardly a jump.
@Ignatius J Reilly: Well they made a movie from it also..
Frankie Boyle said it best:
“When a contestant is voted out the remaining participants inside should hear silence…..followed by the sound of a single gunshot”
Should it not be called Big Gender Neutral
Never bothered before ant about to now.
Not everything is for everyone.
Disgusting programme.
Television soaps are a distraction from the real world.
@Garreth Byrne: Remember The Real World, think it was MTV seem to recall the mid to late 90′s seeing it was it the first ever of this type format
@Garreth Byrne: All entertainment and past-times might be described as such, depending on one’s views. Not that distractions in life are an inherently bad thing. We all need temporary escapism at times.
To quote from the movie Brüno I’d rather “poke my eyes out with hot needles.”
Read 1984 or watch The Truman Show to see Big Brother in action
I’d rather be peeled and salted!!!
F no… absolutely terrible show. Can’t understand how such tripe was ever popular…
Why would you when you can watch Israel blowing up the Gaza outdoor prison
Why are you inserting political comments into every news story regardless of topic?
@Clare Power: Because they close comments on most articles.
@: The whole world can watch Israel commit war crimes, then get the US to veto them from getting charged for them.
We can post on this garbage but comments closed for anything g to do with the abominaion that Hamas perpetrated yesterday. Whay us that? What is the media afraid of? Perhaps that the majority of the comments wont be of the trendy lefty variety.
Netanyahu and his security intelligence staff must resign over this
@John Conforms: Over Big Brother coming back?? It’s a crime but lets not get carried away..
Was good when it was just a bunch of regular people..The it became wanna be influencers. Now it will be wokesters, LGB-*”;’748;48)((!+_+ and whatever other weirdos they can drag up.
24 hours a day.
@Pól Pot: hahahah
Where’s the box for “Not if you paid me”
Would love if virgin media went HD on saorview. On a big tv, the picture is so fuzzy
The original ‘layout’ was influenced my hypothetical long term missions to Mars. Limited number of adults, cooped together, little entertainment, daily tasks and weekly tasks, rewards to avoid complacency and possible disaster, etc.
We need to pray and show solidarity to Israel by changing our profile pictures to the Israeli flag, and send aid to help them protect our freedom.
@Stanley darsh: Yes because praying works.. lol
@Stanley darsh: You pray for the war criminals. I’ll pray for their victims. #BDS #EndIsraeliApartheid.
Might actually be more interesting if they got someone like Derren Brown in to design a proper concept. Rather than getting a bunch of attention seekers thinking they’re auditioning for Love Island. Has potential to be an interesting show but whoevers in charge as usual cheapen it with cameras in the shower rooms and hot tubs etc.
Just watched the intro with my wife. Full on DEI. All bases covered, obese people, Trans, LGBT&$(✓✓•÷ndjxiemlep¢®£®`®. Feminists and others with a potential sob story
They know that they are filmed and putt on as much “acting out” as possible to be in the picture. No reality at all.
Irrelevant Minister for Sport from Ireland. Urges the US funded terrorist state Israel to go easy on Outrageous Hampshire attack on aforementioned terrorist State.
Just a quick honest rewrite of an article headline closed to comments..
Netanyahu is weak
Why watch nonsense reality shows when we are living in the most insane one yet!
MTV coined this format in the 90′s with ‘Real World’ & its tag-line was ‘when people stop being polite & start getting real’ … even then I thought those words were a departure from civility, yet here we are.
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