This morning RTE Radio One star Joe Duffy sat down for a chat with presenter Dave Fanning to chat about his new TV series Call Back.
Any Liveline fans are sure to be happy about this news, so you better start preparing yourselves now.
Joe says he’s been “pushing the idea for a few years now” and revealed “the day has come”. The pilot episode for the series has already been produced and the “powers that be” are apparently very impressed.
The idea behind the series is to revisit some of Joe’s most memorable callers from the radio show over the years, and there have certainly been a few.
“Sometimes when an issue is raised, we try and help, but by the time the next Live Line comes around it's moved on to more urgent topics,” the man himself explained when discussing why the format should be on television rather than radio.
The first episode is set to go back for a check-in on the “incredible” day when a woman rang Joe to discuss her elderly neighbour being scammed out of €10,000 by builders which led to a car chase across Dublin as Gardaí pursued the criminals.
“We’re staying with personal stories. Live Line has always been and will always be about the strength of its human stories,” Joe said of the new series.
When asked about how he keeps up to date with some of those stories, he gave a rundown of his morning routine:
“I get up at 6am and go to the gym – with little effect,” he joked. “If I see something in the papers while on the treadmill, I text them the team.”
The veteran broadcaster and his callers have been responsible for some pretty amazing stories over the years, even just recently they managed to help out a young Irish couple in Florida who were robbed.
Comedian Brendan O’Carroll called the show to explain their plight and the couple were soon inundated with offers of places to live as well as job opportunities.
We imagine this is going to be one TV series that will have people talking. Six episodes of Call Back are supposedly going to air on RTE in the run up to Christmas this year.
