Ryan Tubridy to step down from Late Late role when season ends

All the best to RT.

LLS should continue.

Miriam O'Callaghan, I heard a few days ago was leading the running as replacement. God I hope not it will be dumbed down even further.

turbidy no loss, I hope that rte go left field for a replacement but I seriously doubt it.

The show should continue but it needs a major revamp and to be shortened. No more serious items, it needs to be pure light entertainment like the Graham Norton Show.

I don't think the show should end.

However it should change format.

It should be Approx 90 minutes including ads.

The odd special could be longer.

It should be a light enetsinment show. There's plenty of other places on RTE such as Prime Time, single episodes,etc to discuss political/social,etc issues.

Season should also be shorter. Starter later in Autumn and finish up earlier in Spring.

The writing has been on the wall for years now.....

Tubridy realises how muck the show is now....

There is only so many times he can feign interest in the dermot bannons, the pat shorts, the amy hubermans, the vogue williams of this world....

He is keeping his cushy number on the radio....

The big question is.....will his pay packet be reduced?

My prediction is no, he will have a few other mickey mouse "projects" to keep him up at his grossly undeserving current salary.....

Id say Claire Byrne will get the new gig.....ticks the female box....and turned her previous "hard hitting current affairs" show into a light entertainment show in preparation for a shot at the LLS....

honestly I don't watch much rte so I couldn't tell you but not the usual suspects of miriam or brendan. I'd like to be genuinely surprised by the choice there have to be good hosts out there ? although I realise there is an infinitesimally small chance of this happening as big organisations don't work like that.

Like others have said the format needs to be tweaked.

The days of old when the Late Late was the show that set the tone for the whole country be it entertainment, politics, human interest etc are long gone and never coming back.

People say it should be more like Norton but I don't think RTE have a personality like Norton or the budget to get high caliber celebrities week in week out.

But I think they can come up with something in-between.

Make it more light hearted.

Keep the human interest stories but get rid of the misery porn.

I'd bet there are far more people out there with interesting stories that don't include misery or at least where misery is not the main thread that people would be interested in hearing.

They will play the diversity card.

Panti Bliss, or Al Porter I reckon.

Just imagine the fun some posters on here would have giving out about all the middle aged balding man everytime Lottie got criticised.

Emer O'Neill. She ticks all the boxes, clearly ambitious, and a proven big beast slayer in RTE. If she wants it she'll take anyone down to get it.

I'm going for The Burke Family Children. They could rotate presenters and there young and will certainly bring something different to The Late Late Show.

RTE would save a ton on wardrobe too seeing as they all dress the same all the time.

Will he come back for the Toy Show I wonder.

Baz as an outside shot would be decent.

Anyway,we'll get somebody who won't rock the boat and will tow the RTE line.

Tommy Tiernan is too much of a risk.

I'd say it'll be Brendan o Connor (imagine at one point he was considered a bit of a rebel in RTE? Now he can't get out a sentence out without apologising in case it causes offence or legal troubles)

Or more likely Claire Byrne because it has to be a woman.

I'd still be happier with either of those over Tubridy and his genuinely creepy misery fascination.People will look back in years to come and think what the fook was that all about?

And she said let’s not go there!

Its been nothing but misery porn since he took over, someone who is dying as a guest or talking about something horrible that happened in some part of the world.

And he was in his element when he had a politician on as a guest.

We have enough current affairs programmes for all of that depressing stuff, a chat show should be light hearted like what Norton has going on across the pond.

He is the highest paid presenter in RTE, do employers usually pay people they are not happy with the best salaries?

I'm just wondering is there a better offer on the table outside of RTE which allows him to keep the radio gig.

Never have particularly liked him. Always found his interviews more like bullet-point questions.

Show needs a shake-up. It's just too often has fallen into faux sincerity monologues, overly-heavy grieving segments, grovelling at celebs when they say they're an Irish connection, and anyone from RTE.

I don't know what route might work, but something needs to change. Norton has the celeb-only light fluff corner covered.

I could see them offering it to Sarah McInerney. Yes, her forte is current affairs but from what I've seen of her in other domains (social media, etc), she seems very witty and personable.

She'd be perfect too for the serious debates, something that was a key component of the LLS back in the Gay Byrne times.

There needs to be a rule that no foreign guests should ever be asked about their "Irish connections".

Makes the country look like a backwater every time its asked.

Younger people might tune in for The Toy Show, a special or they knew somebody on it.

In my experience Ryan's biggest fans are ladies over 55.