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Pat Shortt’s Entertainment from D’Telly **NEW SERIES**

Pat Shortt’s Entertainment from D’Telly. Image Name: Pat Shortt’s Entertainment from D’Telly. Description: Pat Shortt Copyright: RTÉ
Pat Shortt’s Entertainment from D’Telly. Image Name: Pat Shortt’s Entertainment from D’Telly. Description: Pat Shortt Copyright: RTÉ

Pat Shortt’s Entertainment from D’Telly

Culled from over five decades of Entertainment television, Pat Shortt’s Entertainment from D’Telly showcases a rich collection of comic confectionery, powerful performances, candid conversations and sharp satire in a series of 7 half hour programmes- and a one hour Christmas Special- reflecting, in their own unique fashion, the rich abundance and enduring quality of the very best in Irish entertainment!

 

Episode 1:

On tonight’s opening programme of Pat Shortt’s Entertainment From D’Telly, Pat reflects on the central role that Variety performers and Drama. Drama groups have played in the evolution of television entertainment. The RTÉ Archive provides the material for some hilarious moments from John Bishop, Kenneth Williams and Maureen Potter and Pat also peeks behind the scenes of two very famous Dames who eventually made it big when they transferred from the Stage to Television – Danny La Rue and Dame Edna Everage.