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ANOTHER CHAPTER IN the story of Ireland’s longest-running television programme came to a close last night.
Yesterday’s episode of The Late Late Show was Ryan Tubridy’s last in the presenter’s chair before he hands over to Patrick Kielty for the new season later this year.
Kielty will become the fourth full-time presenter of the show since it was launched in July 1962, following in the footsteps of Tubridy, Pat Kenny, and Gay Byrne (or fifth if we include Frank Hall’s brief stint in 1964).
But what’s behind Ireland’s enduring love of the programme? How, after decades on our screens, does it still remain popular when appointment viewing is declining in favour of on-demand?
Joining us on this week’s episode are Mark O’Brien, head of DCU’s School of Communications and associate professor in journalism history, and Kirsty Blake Knox, writer with the Irish Independent, to delve into the show’s history.
How did it come to be in the first place? How has it evolved over time? And will Kielty be able to revive what might be seen as a dated format?
https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/whats-behind-irelands-love-affair-with-the-late-late/s-xFFW08Rbzta?si=749b154b2e994342aaec4f10e4fcf09d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
This episode was created by presenter Laura Byrne, senior producer Nicky Ryan and executive producer Sinéad O’Carroll.
Pack of gimps
Pack of Gimps II is playing in the lighthouse cinema this December. Not a great narrative but the lighting is half decent.
@O Swetenham: sequels are never better than the first except for terminator and the godfather
@Kieran Stafford: and Ace Ventura.
@Kieran Stafford: and Rocky III and IV
25 incidents of violence at sixteen different cinemas They were right to pull it
@yildun: so now because some people are outlaws films are censored ? The problem is the people not the film .
Feck imagine what would happen if they watched Rambo or read a book
Sounds like Balbriggan on a Saturday night.
Is there any nudity in it father?
Sick Bruv init
“It has also been suggested that the decision to cancel the screenings was racially motivated.”
I want to know more about this. Who suggested racial motivation here? Why are those that made this suggestion not called upon to justify the suggestion in the same way that the cinema chain management and film producers have been?
First we had the millenniums then then snowflakes now we have the lemming generation
What’s it about?
@potnoodle: about 90 mins
It’s a sign of aggression… Aggressive and threatening behaviour…
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