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Saturday Nights RTE - Jan 2010

  • 24-11-2009 7:22pm
    #1
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭


    The Tubridy Tonight slot is to be filled by Kennedy & O Connor. It's a depressing glimpse in to the future.

    http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2009/nov/22/kennedy-and-oconnor-to-fill-tubridy-tonight-slot/
    Kennedy and O'Connor to fill 'Tubridy Tonight' slot
    Ken Sweeney

    The unlikely pairing of Lucy Kennedy and Brendan O'Connor has been chosen by RTé to jointly present a replacement show for Tubridy Tonight.

    Due to begin in January for an eight-week run, the new programme will cost the station €90,000 per episode. It has been created to help RTé cope with the battering it has been receiving in the ratings from TV3.

    RTé's decision to have two well-known faces fronting the show rather than one is said to have surprised many – including the presenters.

    However, both Kennedy and O'Connor are said to have agreed to the proposals after a meeting in RTé last week. Lucy Kennedy (33) has pursued a Saturday night show for some time. Last September she told an interviewer: "I'd love to do the Saturday-night slot – who wouldn't? It would be great. I loved doing The Lucy Kennedy Show so it would be nice to do it again on a Saturday."

    Friends say she also wants to get back to work after the birth of her first child, son Jack, earlier this month.

    O'Connor – well known for his advertising voiceovers – has become a ratings winner for TV3 recently presenting the Apprentice spin-off show You're Fired.

    In securing the Tubridy Tonight slot, Kennedy and O'Connor won out over stiff competition from the likes of Craig Doyle, Gerry Ryan and Irish Big Brother winner Brian Dowling, who were all reported to have been attached to rival proposals.

    While exact details and format of the show are not yet known, "chat, music, comedy and satire" were key elements RTé asked for in proposals.

    When Ryan Tubridy brought the curtain down on Tubridy Tonight, he was drawing an average audience of 517,000 viewers.


Comments

  • #2
    ateam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭ateam


    Aidric wrote: »
    The Tubridy Tonight slot is to be filled by Kennedy & O Connor. It's a depressing glimpse in to the future.

    http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2009/nov/22/kennedy-and-oconnor-to-fill-tubridy-tonight-slot/


    Where did Lucy Kennedy come from? She is terrible. Is it RTE nepotism or something. O'Connor has been good, I don't think he needs a co-presenter.


  • #3
    skelliser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    afaik her father works in rte

    keep it in the family!


  • #4
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    skelliser wrote: »
    afaik her father works in rte

    keep it in the family!

    AFAIK her father played the piano on her last Chat Show and was in a Showband in the 1960s, I don't think he works in RTÉ.


  • #5
    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    the new programme will cost the station €90,000 per episode

    :eek: no recession with RTE


  • #6
    DeepBlue
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    JP Liz wrote: »
    :eek: no recession with RTE

    Relax, the show itself will only cost €20,000 per episode.
    The remaining €70,000 is the cost of Brendan O'Connor's hair grooming.


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