PK@rte.ie (again). The All New (Patrick Kielty) Late Late Show Thread

Whatever about the athletics, I hope they don’t wheel out rigger buggers the first show out. That’s exactly the problem with RTE. If you’re stuck a. Find someone from the canteen. If you can’t find someone b. Get in a rugger bugger or GAA-head. Sick of it!

But it's not just the run of the mill, let's interview Johnny Sexton randomly.

We are about to hit the rugby World Cup, with Ireland as no1 team in the world. Admittedly the players usually are quite generic when they are interviewed, so perhaps it would be good to hear an in-depth chat with the English man trying to win the WC for us?

That would be a good start. I'm sure there are plenty who would like to hear from them.

Misery slot. Ryan turbridy on to tell us about his traumatic 6 months.

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That suggests it will be more lighthearted than the previous misery that was inflicted.

I'm glad the owl survived too. 😁

I'd say you are not alone.

I expect there will be a lot of new LLS viewers for the first few shows anyway.

Wouldn’t be a fan of pre recorded tbh- then it becomes any other show- I think pre recording will kill off TLLS.

The shorter time duration (90 mins) will work in its favour - PK will have a certain pressure on him to “perform” well, over these 90 mins but really, it’s the format, the guests, the discussion the panel approach that will make or break this show.

If it’s just one book publicity interview after another it will die. I genuinely support PK and I’ll certainly be kind to him in his first 3 months but he can’t carry the full weight of responsibility on his shoulders - he needs massive support from the researchers and producer to get engaging guests who are allowed to talk- to get controversial topics going- to get debate going but without it becoming a Monday night current affairs show with audience-that’s a fine line there but it can be done -but to also put “entertainment” back into the show as it was starved of that for the last decade.

If the misery slot is retained then everyone associated with the show deserves a p45

That’s probably why RT was asking every guest “And how did you feel?”, regardless of what it is they said.

I wonder who the show sponsor is now

Won't be watching. Haven't rte on the telly anyway.

It was interesting to watch the video on first post to see tubridy in action. Is he incapable of sitting still for even a second or is it a way of grabbing attention?

Truly annoying. Glad I just can't be bothered with rte.

Whatever about the toy show I think the LLS will continue.

I don't see how a nation famed for story tellers, musicians, singers, poets, authors and actors can't maintain a chat show once a week.

And you could throw in a few spoofers and chancers to make up the numbers 😀

Even BBC are covering it.

The intro music in the clip above sounds like the original from Gay Byrne's era, I Dornie why they changed it.

I cannot help but notice how low key everything is .... 2 days to go no guest announced .... apart from a few showing of this Patrick Kielty/owl promo not much RTE hype either ... it is as if to say RTE know they are flogging a dead horse ....

I cannot see this being anything special ... Charlie Rich and Elvis and Ray Charles are all dead ... and music is dead and buried with them as no one is following them singing anything worthwhile that RTE will promote .... it is all just Imelda May n Dermot Nepotism .... comedy is just smut .... reality TV is a pandemic that makes Covid 19 look tame ... let's face it .... the entertainment industry is dead and buried ... the Late Late Show is as pointless as a Christmas tree in July ...

Mad that people are saying the promo clip is 'disturbing'. They must have little enough to be worrying about in their lives ffs

Yeah right now it’s a Schrödinger’s box. It’s could be brilliant or it could be shíte. Everyone will end up tuning in to open the box and see! Publishing a lineup now just ruins the whole thing and will probably cost them viewers.

Exactly .... the format and esp type of guest is the MAIN problem ... let's take a quick look ...

Format ... I believe not everything has to be live ... have a hybrid show ... scrap the house band and the silly intro they give to guests ... this costs money and adds nothing ... end that Valentines special ...

Type of guest ... RTE canteen guests promoting their wares needs to go ... the Bannon, Baz, etc. show ... music needs to be broadened ... nothing to my taste has been promoted ... I'm sure there are singers out there doing the classics from Elvis, Charlie Rich, Ray Charles, et al ... but RTE insist on all that modern stuff written by these acts themselves ... often they cannot write ... I'm sick of Dermot Nepotism, Imelda May, boybands and talent show winners singing songs written by ex boyband singers ... Tubridy turned the LLS into something smutty ... that needs to end ... all that Luv Island/Maura Higgins worship and that smut masquerading as comedy too ... all needs to end ... the misery slot needs to be replaced with more inventive debates/discussions ... health related issues should get its own programme like Check Up years back ...

One of the shítest things Tubbers did with TLLS (and there were many) was releasing the whole guest list in advance.