Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v 4.0 (08/07/14 to date)

Skid X

Welsh Megaman would enjoy this

Lady Chatterton

I feel like I'm at a funeral:(

Atlantic Dawn

Skid X wrote: »

They are already planning it AD, them boys know there's likely to be some kind of border and customs, and that means money will be made from getting around those controls.

Garlic could be the most lucrative like the chap who brought it from China via Norway.

Roger_007

A very lame ending?

Utopia Parkway

Male voice choir was the highlight.

Skid X

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Garlic could be the most lucrative like the chap who brought it from China via Norway.

One of the few upsides of the Brexit is that there's a good chance the Booze Cruises to the UK will be back

In your face, minimum alcohol pricing !!!!

Lady Chatterton

I want to thank Vincent for making four generations of women in my family very happy down through the years.

My Grandmother used to read his stories in the Tribune & Magill, she listened to his radio show on RTE 1 and she watched Tonight with Vincent Browne religiously every night until she passed away four years ago. My Mother & myself have been fans of this show since the start My daughter was born in 2006, as a baby she loved the sound of Vincent's voice and the Joe Taylor Tribunal re-enactments. There used to be a mad panic when he'd be going on holidays, I used to have to record the radio programmes. Vinny beats Peppa Pig and Barney any day lol.

We had lots of great debates in our family because of Vincent's shows - Thank you for the memories, Vinny.

Enjoy your retirement 🙂

donfers

TV3 budget for farewell VB show barely hit three figures

sligojoek

Fierce anti-climax. I was expecting Johnny Connors or Martin Collins to present Vinny with a new caravan.

RayM

I love that the last words he uttered on the show were "ah, jaysus".

The "eligible bachelor" thing by Mary Kenny in the Irish Press was originally tweeted by... me, earlier in the week.

https://twitter.com/RayMcGrath/status/889978176289505280

Irish News Archive is a slightly expensive, but fantastic resource for this kind of thing (it has every issue of the Indo, Sindo, Herald, Press, Examiner and dozens of regional papers).

sligojoek

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I want to thank Vincent for making four generations of women in my family very happy down through the years.

My Grandmother used to read his stories in the Tribune & Magill, she listened to his radio show on RTE 1 and she watched Tonight with Vincent Browne religiously every night until she passed away four years ago. My Mother & myself have been fans of this show since the start My daughter was born in 2006, as a baby she loved the sound of Vincent's voice and the Joe Taylor Tribunal re-enactments. There used to be a mad panic when he'd be going on holidays, I used to have to record the radio programmes. Vinny beats Peppa Pig and Barney any day lol.

We had lots of great debates in our family because of Vincent's shows - Thank you for the memories, Vinny.

Enjoy your retirement 🙂

My mother and my children can't stand him.
My mother for her own reasons. My children because whenever they came downstairs, for a drink or whatever, were told, "Get it yourself. I'm watching this".

FrancieBrady

We need a transvestite to ceremoniously close the thread and I have no frock.

RayM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

We need a transvestite to ceremoniously close the thread and I have no frock.

Mine are all at the dry cleaners.

sligojoek

FrancieBrady wrote: »

We need a transvestite to ceremoniously close the thread and I have no frock.

My OH is out for the night. I'll zoom up stairs and see what fits me.

Skid X

https://twitter.com/TonightWithVinB/status/890718636037607427

Fin

JP Liz V1

sligojoek wrote: »

This is how a man should wear a dress.

Ah Glenda don't look too bad

tayto lover

donfers wrote: »

Disappointed with the panel for the last show and the format, it should have been a 2 hour special with a broad spectrum of guests who had appeared and made an impact on the show during its life-span, a kind of remembrance or homage to the tumultuous period in recent Irish political history that the show document

Instead we get a half-hearted look at Ireland post-crisis in the echo chamber of liberal lefties (of which I am one) and their self-congratulatory positive discrimination...and to round it all off a couple of drag queens reading out tweets. Much like the show, this final episode has just given up and ran out of steam.

It ran out of steam a few years ago and just got silly afterwards.

Mr.Nice Guy

I haven't watched the show for a few years but I would say it made a positive contribution to political discourse in the country. I liked when the economist Constantin Gurdgiev was on the programme. I thought he was one of Vincent's better guests.

Hope Vincent keeps up the writing.

dense

tayto lover wrote: »

It ran out of steam a few years ago and just got silly afterwards.

Only because weak politicians were afraid to be questioned.

Many who entered the lions den failed.

If they did well in it, it would do their careers no harm.

dense

One thing that struck me is that over the years he never had a serious ongoing interest in the science surrounding climate change.

For a broadcaster who came across as a sceptic I would have expected him to.

Good loser

dense wrote: »

One thing that struck me is that over the years he never had a serious ongoing interest in the science surrounding climate change.

For a broadcaster who came across as a sceptic I would have expected him to.

Farming and rural Ireland bored him.

To me he was 'full of sound and fury signifying nothing'.

Atlantic Dawn

Rumours of Brendan O'Connor to replace him, I doubt it...
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/person-rumoured-take-vincent-browne-last-person-expected-596618

bobbyss

Atlantic Dawn wrote:

Rumours of Brendan O'Connor to replace him, I doubt it...

Can't stand him. His accent is off putting. He's more a funny man; he being the joke.

FrancieBrady

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Rumours of Brendan O'Connor to replace him, I doubt it...
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/person-rumoured-take-vincent-browne-last-person-expected-596618

Yeh, might not be the worst choice. O'Connor is alright on political issues, can ask the tough questions.

mikeybrennan

As long as ivan yates doesn't get it I don't mind

Lady Chatterton

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Rumours of Brendan O'Connor to replace him, I doubt it...
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/person-rumoured-take-vincent-browne-last-person-expected-596618

I hope this rumour is true but I doubt that it is. Vincent mentioned during one of his broadcasts that he was earning about €55,000.

Brendan would've been on very good money in RTE when he was presenting the SNS so I can't see him moving to TV3.

alan partridge aha

bobbyss wrote: »

Can't stand him. His accent is off putting. He's more a funny man; he being the joke.

I think he would be a good proposition, had a good show on Sat night till RTE IN their infinite wisdom replaced him with a Tom tit twit Arcy.

CatFromHue

I thought The Cutting Edge was starting to run out of steam so might not be a bad idea for Brendan to move. The late nights might be an issue for him, or whoever takes over.

Atlantic Dawn

I see TV3 have "The Best Of Vincent Browne" on tonight in the usual slot.

FrancieBrady

Good show. Reeling In Vincent

The thought strikes, if the national broadcaster had more like Vincent perhaps politicians wouldn't get away with so much.

A career of asking the tough questions.

dense

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Yeh, might not be the worst choice. O'Connor is alright on political issues, can ask the tough questions.

Can't stand him!!

There must be someone else!

dense

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Good show. Reeling In Vincent

The thought strikes, if the national broadcaster had more like Vincent perhaps politicians wouldn't get away with so much.

A career of asking the tough questions.

Was there a 15 minutes ad break in the middle last night?
I noticed they didn't replay F Sheehan throwing his toys out of the cot.

FrancieBrady

dense wrote: »

Was there a 15 minutes ad break in the middle last night?
I noticed they didn't replay F Sheehan throwing his toys out of the cot.

I would say they toy throwing clips could have filled two or three shows.
Thought it was very well done myself.

sligojoek

Brendan would fill his panels with Sunday indo and Newstalk heads the same as he did with Cutting Edge

Atlantic Dawn

Could Gavin Reilly be a possible replacement down the line?

GAVAN REILLY HAS been named as the new political correspondent at TV3.

Reilly, formerly of TheJournal.ie, will now be responsible for the station’s daily political and current affairs coverage on the recently rebranded 3News.

He leaves Today FM, where he had served as the political correspondent and regular stand-in for Matt Cooper on The Last Word and Neil Delamere on The Sunday Best.

http://www.thejournal.ie/gav-reilly-tv3-political-correspondent-3524695-Aug2017/

tayto lover

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Could Gavin Reilly be a possible replacement down the line?



Naw. It will be Twink.

Atlantic Dawn

Suggestions that both Ivan Yates and Matt Cooper will take over from Vin...

http://www.thejournal.ie/vincent-browne-poll-2-3555516-Aug2017/

Lady Chatterton

I like Ivan Yates and Matt Cooper and their presenting styles very much. However, I have a genuine concern that we could quickly become tired of them and their opinions as both men will also be presenting 2.5 - 3 hours of drive time radio every weekday.

My granny used to say that familiarity breeds contempt and I think this could happen here. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

brooke 2

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I like Ivan Yates and Matt Cooper and their presenting styles very much. However, I have a genuine concern that we could quickly become tired of them and their opinions as both men will also be presenting 2.5 - 3 hours of drive time radio every weekday.

My granny used to say that familiarity breeds contempt and I think this could happen here. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

But, people who watch the TV show might not necessarily listen to the radio shows. I very rarely listen to Matt Cooper. His whiny voice is too much for me!
I do listen to Ivan whenever he is on anything.

Galwayguy35

I'd like them to give the job to Ian O Doherty, that's a man that would ask the tough questions.

You wouldn't see Connors and Collins on the show then because there would be no more easy interviews.

Agent Coulson

Confirmed: Ivan Yates and Matt Cooper will be taking over from Vincent Browne

IVAN YATES AND MATT Cooper are to replace Vincent Browne on TV3, it has been confirmed.
Although the news leaked a number of weeks ago, the television station unveiled details of its new-look The Tonight Show during its Autumn schedule launch this afternoon.
Both men will present the show together each night. Mario Rosenstock will be on every Thursday.
According to Yates, the new show will be “very interactive”. Speaking from the event at the National Concert Hall, the Newstalk presenter said that Matt is a “professional journalist” who “takes this sort of seriously”, while he is “there to provoke debate”.
Cooper himself said that the show will talk to people who have “solutions to the problems in Irish life”.

http://www.thejournal.ie/ivan-yates-matt-cooper-tonight-show-3572290-Aug2017/

sligojoek

More DOB employees.

Skid X

I wouldn't be shocked if either Ivan or Matt quit their TV3 TwoHander before too long, they are both used to being the top dog and it seems like an unlikely alliance.

expectationlost

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Confirmed: Ivan Yates and Matt Cooper will be taking over from Vincent Browne



http://www.thejournal.ie/ivan-yates-matt-cooper-tonight-show-3572290-Aug2017/

at some point Matt Cooper decide to be no longer a professional journalist and simply become a.... broadcaster like George hook.

realdanbreen

The whole VB show is jaded and dated at this stage. Discussing what's going to be in tomorrows newspapers is almost comical in this day and age. Reading out tweets from half a dozen anoraks plus multiple ad breaks only adds to the blandness of the show.

expectationlost

realdanbreen wrote: »

The whole VB show is jaded and dated at this stage. Discussing what's going to be in tomorrows newspapers is almost comical in this day and age. Reading out tweets from half a dozen anoraks plus multiple ad breaks only adds to the blandness of the show.

yeah the ads breaks was part of reason I stopped watching that and Vincent couldn't interrupt anybody without coughing