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# telly

All time
# telly
Public Service Broadcasting Charge to be introduced in January 2015
The new charge will replace the television licence fee.
# up in flames
The funniest soap opera moment of all time
It involves a urinating doll being thrown onto a flaming barbecue.
# Pawnee
7 reasons you should be watching Parks and Recreation
And turn that frizown upsidizity.
# crispy pancakes
8 TV shows you weren't allowed eat your dinner in front of
Closer each day…
# Imagine
What if John Lennon auditioned on The Voice?
Here’s a video of what would happen.
# happy birthgervais
Remember when Ricky Gervais was the funniest man in the world?
He still kind of is but we’re talking the absolute heyday here.
# Pay Up
Video: This is an actual excuse someone gave for not paying their TV licence
The UK equivalent of the TV licence inspectors have come up with a novel way of making sure people pay their licence.
# wliia
7 awe-inspiring improvisations from Whose Line Is It Anyway?
It’s coming back!
# CDWM
15 things to expect from the new Irish Come Dine With Me
The Sligo edition of the bitter cook-off starts tonight.
# real talk
14 alarming situations explored on The Jeremy Kyle Show
Reality is a dark, dark place.
# Woof
Dog doesn't like baseball, nearly smashes up flat-screen
Good hustle from the telly/dog owner though.
# Crisps
Have you started watching Moone Boy yet?
Get on it.
AS IT HAPPENED
The Voice Of Ireland live show #2 – as it happened
Every performance – and every dodgy judges’ outfit – as they unfolded.
# Sausages
VIDEO: What Dáithí Ó Sé was thinking during Sausagegate
Remember when he had a bit of a moment on the telly? Here’s the real story.
# telly
5 classic Irish TV shows that should be remade in the US
And who we’d cast in them.
# UPC
UPC says it now has over one million subscribers in Ireland
The broadband, phone and TV provider had strong growth in 2012 with a nearly 50 per cent increase in phone customers.
# Deception
Here's everything crazy that happened in the Deception finale
Fluffy bunnies, smutty innuendo, and some killing. Yep, it was insane.
# Deception
Last night's Deception: Orange juice, blackmail and LOTS of bare arse
Here’s how it went down. (Bare arse photos NSFW.)
# RTEPT
Pics, video: New look Prime Time starts on RTÉ One tonight
Claire Byrne and Pat Kenny are recruited to the Prime Time team, joining Miriam O’Callaghan for the now thrice-weekly show.
# Deception
Last night's Deception: Hatstands, baked beans and the worst sex ever
Oh, and someone faking their own death. Here’s how it went down.
# CDWM
Celebrity Come Dine With Me recap: And the winner is...
Plus Rosanna’s dance face. Here’s everything we learned last night.
# Nostalgia
7 Irish things you'll probably never use again
I remember when all this was fields…
# telly
Mrs Brown's Boys' gets a huge increase in UK viewers for Christmas
In 2011, 6.61 million people watched the show’s Christmas Special – a figure that has jumped by around a third.
# pass the remote
Here's what's ACTUALLY on telly today...
Straight from (Not the) RTÉ Guide.
# RTÉ
RTÉ reveals new presenter for morning news programme
Keelin Shanley will front a new morning news programme on RTÉ One television and RTÉ News Now in the new year.
# love hate
Love/Hate season finale: 7 questions we want answered
The big issues – and the small ones – that the final episode left hanging. SOMEBODY HELP.
# love hate
Love/Hate parody Twitter accounts: Your essential guide
All the way down to Aido’s dead budgie.
# Love/Hate
Love/Hate to air on American online video service HULU
RTÉ has announced that the hit drama will be now available to audiences in the United States.
# Glencent
TV3 still hopes to air Vin B/Glenda Gilson travel programme next year
The prospect of the ultimate odd couple touring European capitals is not dead despite the programme not coming to our screens before Christmas as had been hoped.
# X Factor
QUIZ TIME! Should you watch the X Factor final?
Do you have what it takes to watch telly this evening?
# Christmas telly
Here's what's on RTÉ this Christmas...
… and New Year.
# love hate
Last night's Love/Hate: Sexting, mammies and topless tapping
And when will Darren get the ride? Everything we learned from last night’s horrorshow.
# love hate
PLAY: The Unofficial Love/Hate Drinking* Game
*For use with minerals or tea. We’ve all got work in the morning.
# tellywatch
WATCH: Booze, boobs and buttocks in the new Tallafornia
They’ve all gone to Santa Ponsa… and it’s trashier than ever.
# Four more years
Videos: The moment US TV networks called the election for Obama
As the networks called the state of Ohio for Obama, they called the election for the US President. Watch how it unfolded…
# Glencent
Vincent Browne could front TV3 travel programme with... Glenda Gilson
Don’t lie, you’d definitely watch the ultimate ‘odd couple’ trek around Europe together wouldn’t you?
# analogue memories
15 memories from the good old days of analogue TV
All changed, changed utterly.
# UPC
RTÉ News Now and TG4 HD now available on UPC
‘Ardghléine’ is the Irish word for high definition apparently…
# R-TEE-HEE
Best RTÉ Guide parody Twitter account you'll see today
Craig Doyle Week, Ireland’s Biggest Trucks, Mary Wilson Ninja Tutles…. my sides.
Voices
Column: Why I don't watch Vincent Browne
… or Prime Time, for that matter, Ciarán Mc Mahon writes.