Hot Takes
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Paddy Raff hosts, with Emer Maguire, Cecilia Daly, Michael Fry, and India Sasha. | Paddy Raff hosts, with Emer Maguire, Cecilia Daly, Michael Fry, and India Sasha. | ||
| - | + | : "You are on a packed holiday flight and in the middle seat. Do you stake your claim to both arm rests; or neither arm rest; or something different?" | |
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| + | On such weak foundations they tried to build a comedy panel game. Opinion poll shows are easy to commission, hard to make great, and this was not great: no real excuse for the comedians to be funny, and no surprise insight into the lives of ordinary people. | ||
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| + | A later round had the germ of an interesting idea: ask the celebrity panel to guess each others' mildly shocking opinion, though that sounds a bit like Radio 4's long-running show ''Heresy''. | ||
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[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027s9z BBC programme page] | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027s9z BBC programme page] | ||
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| + | [[Weaver's Week 2025-03-30#Hot Takes|Weaver's Week review]] | ||
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Current revision as of 11:10, 30 March 2025
Synopsis
According to the billing, this is "a comic survey designed to reveal Northern Ireland's opinions about what matters most in every lives." In short, what are the area's hot takes?
Paddy Raff hosts, with Emer Maguire, Cecilia Daly, Michael Fry, and India Sasha.
- "You are on a packed holiday flight and in the middle seat. Do you stake your claim to both arm rests; or neither arm rest; or something different?"
On such weak foundations they tried to build a comedy panel game. Opinion poll shows are easy to commission, hard to make great, and this was not great: no real excuse for the comedians to be funny, and no surprise insight into the lives of ordinary people.
A later round had the germ of an interesting idea: ask the celebrity panel to guess each others' mildly shocking opinion, though that sounds a bit like Radio 4's long-running show Heresy.
