Tubridy Tonight
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| Genre | Chat show, Talk show, variety show |
| Creator(s) | - |
| Starring | Ryan Tubridy (2004–present) |
| Country of origin | Republic of Ireland |
| No. of episodes | unknown |
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| Running time | 60 minutes per edition |
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| Original channel | RTÉ |
| Original run | 2004-10-16 – present |
Tubridy Tonight is a television chat show broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ One. The show is hosted by Ryan Tubridy and is broadcast live on Saturday nights after the RTÉ main evening news. The show began broadcasting on October 16, 2004 for a ten-week run and was extended by a further thirteen shows until April 2005. A second series of the show ran from October 2005 to May 2006. The third series is currently underway.
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[edit] Format
Tubridy Tonight is the first chat show that has proved successful in the Saturday night slot since the ending of Kenny Live in 1999. The show has an American-style feel about it with a house band, The Camembert Quartet, providing the opening music. Similar to American chat shows Tubridy Tonight has no opening titles. The show follows a very simple format. There are usually three interviewees as well as a musical guest. The host, Ryan Tubridy, also conducts a quiz with a member of the studio audience and to a competition consisting of a live call to a viewer at the end of the show, to win a prize.
[edit] Host
Ryan Tubridy has hosted the show from the beginning. He was given his own television show to succeed Kenny Live on Saturday evenings, after much success[citation needed] with his radio breakfast radio show The Full Irish on RTÉ 2fm. This new platform has allowed him to express himself openly and he is known for his variety of poses. Whether sitting at his desk or standing to address the audience, he may ask the viewers or his guest a question with open hands or he may sit with arms and hands placed firmly on the desk in front of him. He also may clasp his hands together in mid-air.
[edit] Guests
Guests on the show have included Bob Geldof, an Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Charles Dance. Actress Brenda Fricker appeared with her Oscar and was shown playing drums with the house band whilst former tennis player Pat Cash was shown playing guitar in a separate moment. Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow sang The Beatles song "Hey Jude" and encouraged the audience to join in. Hollywood actor Richard E. Grant revealed his reason for appearing in Spiceworld: The Movie (it was on his daughter's wishes). Also appearing were comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish international rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll, snooker players Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay, actor Jimmy Nesbitt, supermodel Twiggy, Naked Camera star Maeve Higgins, West Wing actor Martin Sheen, actress Julie Walters and television personality Hector Ó hEochagáin. Musical guests have included Blondie, The Human League (singing "Don't You Want Me"), Natalie Imbruglia (singing "Shiver") and David Hasselhoff entertaining the audience with "Unchain My Heart".
[edit] Music
As is standard with television chat shows, each week an artist is invited onto the show to perform a piece of music. A number of Irish artists have so far featured on the show, including Bell X1, The Blizzards and Pugwash.
[edit] Praise and competition
Tubridy Tonight and its host have won praise[1]from the former host of The Late Late Show, Gay Byrne.The show has on occasions[citation needed] had better ratings than The Late Late Show. The show competes for guests with The Late Late Show and politicians[2] , including Bertie Aherne and Michael McDowell, have occasionally opted to be interviewed by Tubridy, for a softer focused interview, instead of the more probing [3] style of Pat Kenny's Late Late Show. However, both Ahern and McDowell have regularly featured on the Late Late Show also. The competition between the two chat shows is analogous to similar competition in a previous decade between Gay Byrne and Pat Kenny. Tubridy's career is similar to that of Kenny and he has been speculated as a possible successor to Pat Kenny, as host of The Late Late Show.
[edit] External links
- Tubridy Tonight on RTÉ
- Pugwash perform Tinsel and Marzipan on Tubridy Tonight
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