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Podge
Pádraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy (born 1941) are the central characters of Irish television series ''A Scare at Bedtime'', created and performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O'Hara. More recently, the brothers have presented ''The Podge and Rodge Show'', a chat show in the same vein, and ''Podge & Rodge's Stickit Inn'', set in a pub. Morrison and O'Hara also created and perform the characters of Zig and Zag (puppets), Zig and Zag, Bronx Bunny, and Teddy T. Character history Origins Podge originally appeared as a "villain" character on the children's programming block, ''The Den (Ireland), The Den''. He was introduced in 1990, as an ordinary puppet that Zag (of Zig and Zag (puppets), Zig and Zag) had found in a box amongst the rubbish behind an old joke shop. Dubbing the puppet "Podge," Zag used him to practice ventriloquism, and would put on the "Podge and Zag" show, which a jealous Zig usually interrupted. During one of these shorts an unidentified voic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Den (TV Programme)
''The Den'' was a long-running children's entertainment television programme on Republic of Ireland, Ireland's public broadcaster, RTÉ. First broadcast on 29 September 1986 on RTÉ1, it moved to Network 2 two years later. Initially a continuity strand for weekday afternoon programmes, ''The Den'' later expanded during the late 1990s and the 2000s, until it became synonymous with RTÉ Young People's Programming, RTÉ's children's output. At various times during its run, it was known as ''Dempsey's Den'', ''Den TV'' and ''Den2''. In mid-2010, RTÉ Television announced an overhaul of its children's output with the launch of RTÉjr and TRTÉ (now ''RTÉ Kids''). ''The Den'' aired for the last time on 19 September 2010. The ''Den'' name returned for six weeks from November 2020 on RTÉ1, reuniting members of the original cast in a Sunday-evening variety-show format, predominantly aimed at families living through the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland, country's cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |