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Ireland: New TV show for Dustin?
Rumours circulated recently in the Irish media suggested that the the popular character was to be dropped entirely by RTE bosses ahead of the autumn schedule. However, a RTE spokesman said: Dustin previously had a contract for young people’s programmes, but is now moving in a different direction. We’re trying out a format which is indicative of the new approach. The pilot is about to go into production and is designed to test out a particular format. RTE said that giving Dustin a development contract facilitates an exploration of formats.
A spokesman for Double Z, the production company behind Dustin, said it is happy with the nature of the contract RTE has given. Asked what the future holds for the turkey, he said: It depends on how the pilots go. But the intention is that he will go back on air. The puppet will now target a more mature audience, Double Z said, but the format will not be a chat show. The new Dustin the Turkey show will not be expected on RTE until next year.
Dustin has been a fixture on RTE since 1990 when he appeared with fellow puppets Zig and Zag
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@Martin L,
Are you the people of Ireland my friend ?
Who cares about that stupid turkey?
Dustbin the Turkey.
oh God Dustin - get off our tellys pleeeeease! the people of Ireland are begging you to literally go and get stuffed!
Dustin song was the truth about ESC!!!
It sure was benjamin... try to tell that to other ESC-visitors on this site.
Good luck to Dustin
I loved his performance in Belgrade. He's witty and cute.
LOL!
That's all I can say about this. Thankfully the Irish don't seem to keep such great expectations about Eurovision anymore...
@Benjamin Johnson.
"song"!? What song?
Dustin song was the truth about ESC!!!
Awwwwww come to the UK Dustin!! If I could I would have voted for Ireland this year
Since turkeys can't fly, I'm happy
Good luck to Dustin.
As long it stays in Ireland, I am happy!
as lng as RTE will be keeping Dustin away fron the ESC, i do not really care about its future.