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

CB out according to Info.

The options really are dwindling. Rte going to get caught out?

It might survive if they change the format.

Need to cut the running time. Turn it into a tight 90min show.

Can have serious human interest section, but for Jesus sake, try not to make it all about the misery. It's Friday night, people wanna tune in for a bit of craic, a laugh, see a bit of music, the odd light hearted interview. You know, like most chat shows.

come on Sarah Mc woo hoo.. she would be fabbb

If RTE want to freshen it up and bring a new audience in Zamparelli is the obvious choice. The geriatric demographic will have to find there misery somewhere else.

Sarah McInerney is the bookies favourite

A Listers are generally dull. Norton has three or four of them on and gets a bit of banter out of them,but one on one it's just platitudes.

Plenty of interesting folk out there to interview if they had a bit of imagination and a good interviewer.

Could never figure out the appeal. She was amateurish on Newstalk, somehow RTE thought to make her their lead political presenter.

I wouldn't exit her either :)

I think RTE is finally seeing that Claire hasn't really got a personality.

That was just a public negotiating line these potential presenters or actors usually use.

If she didn't want it, she would have ruled herself out early on.

It seems RTE have seen the reaction to the quiz show and decided to look elsewhere. You can't have someone presenting the Late Late Show who has no personality or charisma.

Problem is RTE walked into this by allowing the narrative to be that it had to be a woman that presenter getting the job. This is one if there biggest monetized products. There narrative should have been ''best person, best person, best person '' instead of the narrative that it has to be a woman after after sixty years

It was the same with the Sunday Game, a woman presenter had to get it and we know the mess that created. Every big job now in RTE has to be given to a woman. It must be hard to be an ambitious male presenter at this stage

Has to be Anton Savage, nobody else good available within the country for this format.

Tommy better doing what he does off the cuff, the stiff by the numbers structure the old guard want isn't his thing.

I do not buy the narritive that CB did not take the LLS. It was either indicated to her that she was not getting it after the Ireland Smartest debacle or else RTe have started putting feelers out to other contenders. I agree I think it unlikly to be a woman at this stage unless its a female presenter from outside RTE. I am not sure if Daithi has the experience to carry the show, mainly becase he has been sidelined on the afternoon show for the last few years.

Patrick Kielty will cost them serious dosh . I do not see Oliver Callan getting the chair. I think BOC is still in the running but RTE will have to beg a little bit, with him or Keilty it would be on there terms.

My 2c's worth - On Claire Byrne, I think it was in the bag for her up until recently. As I said before, it had been well choreographed up to a few weeks ago and then it started to fall apart based on the new quiz and I also think that (for the first time in history) RTE actually did a little bit of research re where the public were on this on SM.

Claire's statement today (coming late) was a face saving exercise after being told - 'sorry Claire, you're out'

Who ever does get it is one thing but I'm glad that Ryan's career is on the wane. He's still on the gravy train but has been fecked out of the Pullman carriage and now resides in the freight carriage beside the bicycles, trunks and post bags

He winged it for years and made many millions (off our backs) giving very little in return