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

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Oh, well... He's Irish now, so he can work anywhere in the EU. Smart lad. Smart move.

Joe Schmidt did the same...before he high tailed it back home.

Great bunch of lads though.

Think they need a new sound engineer

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I can understand the criticism if you want a current affairs lens on the show but RTE clearly don't. They want the Graham Norton/Jimmy Fallon vibe of the audience enjoying celebrities deigning to acknowledge them for ten minutes and have a laugh along with the harmless host. With that in mind I thought tonight's show was fine.

I like Saoirse Ronan from what i see of her. I agree that she was holding back a little but I prefer that to someone going over the top. You can see she's still very Irish in her manner, but she's careful. She didn't want to talk about her husband unnecessarily and that's fine. It's her private life.

They have people or screen to tell the audience when to clap and it had no effect at the start of the show with him being funny.

It just wasn't funny.

Was poor - but was at least live , but sound was a mess - and lets be honest , you can't take a 20 year break and sing as well - they are very hard songs to sing , with complex key changes.

They already seem to have largely dropped the current affairs and discussion ….. and replaced it 100% with celebrity and sportspeople interviews ….. for me this is samey and v boring ….. not many of these celebs are remotely interesting …. for all the talk of trying to return the show to Gay Byrne's style ….. Tubridy re-introducing the theme tune ….. Kielty having Gay's voice introduce him plus the Brendan O'Carroll look a like dancing from Gay's era shown in the opening credits ….. the show is in fact moving further and further away from anything Gay did …. it is now just silly and rather smutty ….. airhead and lightweight …..

Graham Norton's show for me is one of the most overrated ….. it works when there are good guests but that is not all the time ….. same goes for Seth Myers and all the US ones ….. for TLLS there are even less good guests ….. I think they made a huge mistake with this new format where there are no discussions and nothing other than celebrities and sports people …. copying Norton and US shows does not work and the show has become a borefest ….. Kielty is not the right man for the job IMV …. those intros and promos are cringeworthy ….. last night he is singing some song comprised of lyrics of the guests from his show !!!! …. we need someone who is more serious and more rounded ….. maybe Claire Byrne should have got it …. would love to see a debate focusing on those far right types and conspiracy nutters …. bring em in and roast them …..

Yep, the amount of those junk shows is getting ridiculous. I used to enjoy Gogglebox but now it seems to be full of clips from shows I don't want to watch.

Show is even gicker now than when Tubridy hosted it..

The rule used to be you were eligible to play for a country once you had lived there for three years, it's since been changed to five.

So no need for a passport then ? Bit strange.

Whilst it was a welcome change the North did overly dominate his first season - but fair enough , topic was totally neglected for years.

But so many topics we could have a right old debate like old late late - and let the headcases loose - RTE is dying due to editorial control .

1. Housing - have it out
2. Low tax of tech sector / tax exiles
3. Get absolute head case right wing lads on - and bang it out.
4. Money being spent on refugee housing / hotels - a national scandal not covered yet
5. HSE / Children's hospital - why are we messing up so many projects
6. Public transport / cycle lanes
7. United Ireland
8. The Burkes - have to get them on - would be legend
9. Sex abuse cases / Church in Ireland
10. Israel
11. USA
12. Russia
13. UK
14. Joe Brolly
15. Irish soccer structures - what is wrong - get experts on ground on
16. Funding of GAA / is it amateur or not / is it over dominating Irish sport
17. Irish language / education

Now I know most of them are covered in more serious shows not the Late Late - and maybe there is a logic to changing the show to banal boring shite talk show.

But - whilst The Late Late was always a crazy show of variety , they have gone a bit soft and a big fake laugh every second.

As for the daft games to fill time - sure show is already much shorter - what is all that about.

I enjoyed last night's show. Sure it was not as good as last week's show but he had three good gests on and one nobody on. Saoirse Ronslan was really good and greet to see how grounded and down to Earth she still is. The Rugby player too. Just wish he speaked louder could barely hear him and Snow petrol were really good too as for that other fellow doing tge cheap show he was a nobody as far as I am concerned and full of himself.

The Late Late Show is a victim of its times ….. we are living in the worst era of 'entertainment' ….. awful music dominates the charts ….. smutty comedy reigns supreme ….. and Big Brudder/Luv Island define TV ….. Gay Byrne did not have all this to contend with ….. things were much better ……

This is why shows about Covid, Ukraine, etc. were much more watchable than 'light entertainment' ….. or lightweight drivel more like it …..

I get the feeling some in RTE think this should be all about laughs and jokes ….. sadly the fare they serve is not funny ….. smut and the latest flavour of the month modern pop band or modern 'country' singer ….. plus the latest reality star ….. this Rylan guy whoever he is = exactly the type of guest NOT to have …..

Bring back the mediums and psychics …… and bring on the Burkes and Derek Blighe, Philip Dwyer, etc ….. and roast them ….. that would be entertainment ….. would love to see the Burkes fly off the handle when confronted ……

This show has to move past 'celeb' stuff and 'light entertainment' ….. and maybe go down the confronting far right politicians, self styled 'shamans' and so on instead …… plus some culture ….. maybe have seanachais on ….. historians …… people who know our culture ….. plenty can be done with this show besides smutty comedians, reality 'stars' and bad modern music …… all it takes is a bit of invention …..

I don't think Kielty did well with the Ronan interview. He wouldn't stop the sycophantic 'you are great' stuff, it was nauseating. He is not usually that bad. In fairness to her, she handled it well, while being bemused by it.

It's better than the misery stuff from Tubridy but there is a danger of going too far the other direction.

The show has gone too far the other direction imv ….. at least the 'misery slot' was something contrasting with the constant silliness this show has turned into in recent years ….. reality TV 'stars' and idolatry of the mediocre has become a way of life for this show ….. not talking about Saoirse Ronan here to get it straight …. she is good at what she does …. but talking about another guest on it that typifies what this show has turned into ……

The show needs to address the silliness and balance itself with proper serious discussion, cultural issues and so on …. it cannot be all 'laughs' and 'jokes' ….. most people who remember Gay's era talk about the discussions and the genuine cultural entertainment sections sadly lacking today …..

I think it is worse than Tubridy ….. that UK TV personality was in no way interesting ….. they are the same as Tubridy had only maybe from another country !!! …. when will RTE get it that these types are not at all interesting and have nothing to offer ….. plus it is ok to have sports stars on sometimes but 3 out of the 4 slots of the past 2 shows were sports people …. some people are not interested and it needs to be more balanced ….. Rory McElroy and/or the Olympians should have been on different shows not the same one …..

I did not care for Tubridy much or Pat Kenny ….. but they had a better mix than Kielty ….. as all Kielty is doing is interviews of 'stars' and it is 100% lightweight ….. he cannot move past this type of show it seems which makes him less versatile than Kenny or Tubridy ….. Claire Byrne should have got it and move it in another direction ….. as all Kielty is is Tubridy taken to the extreme sans the good parts ……