Saturday Night 9:30pm

Elmo

It's a new chat show and you are in charge of selecting a host for the show. As we know RTÉ and some independent producer have gone with Lucy Kennedy and Brendan O'Connor. But lets say they didn't exist who would you choose for your chat show

Ray D'Arcy
Ian Dempsey
Matt Cooper
Alan Hughes
Karen Koster
Aoife Ní Thuairisg
Mark Cagney
Martin King
Derek Mooney
Andrew Maxwell
Will Leahy
Brendan O'Carroll
John Creadon

Rules:

1. Person must be living in Ireland (e.g. Dara O'Brien and he is too expensive anyway, f sake)
2. Person must be alive (e.g. Pat Kenny, haha Joke :rolleyes:)
3. Person must not have hosted a chat show before (e.g. Marty Whelan, he had one in the early 1990s)
4. Person must have had some Broadcasting experience on any service.

RayM

Ian Dempsey. Accompanied by Zig and Zag. Guaranteed to draw the 20-35 age group in, at least.

Elmo

RayM wrote: »

Ian Dempsey. Accompanied by Zig and Zag. Guaranteed to draw the 20-35 age group in, at least.

said to say but it is looking more and more like the 25 to 40 year old age group! 20 years olds never saw Zig and Zag on Dempsey's den (That's what they used to call it before that Ray D'Arcy fella took over, you can tell he insisted that his radio show be called The Ray D'Arcy Show when RTÉ didn't call it D'Arcy's Den).

amdublin

Michael Flatley ftw!

Johnny Giles

John Giles.

Significant experience with RTÉ

Elmo

Michael Flatley and John Giles, now there's a show.

Holsten

Dunphy!

kaiser soza

Dustin with Jedward as guest hosts.

Basq

Christ.. do I have to pick out of that cesspool of "talent"?

Nah, i'll pass!

Dman001

David Norris.

Elmo

basquille wrote: »

Christ.. do I have to pick out of that cesspool of "talent"?

Nah, i'll pass!

You can come up with other names

Dunphy has already had a chat show.

LostGirly

Michael O'Leary!

Basq

Elmo wrote: »

You can come up with other names

I'm at a loss to think of anyone talented, and with enough charisma and appeal that I'd watch every week.

FouxDaFaFa

Daniel Day-Lewis.
Hey, he meets the requirements!:D

But seriously, I wouldn't choose any of the people on the list. We seem to be seriously lacking talented presenters who aren't annoying.

evil_seed

george hook & eamaon dunphy

Shane10

something fun with ian dempsey id watch. possiby involving some gift grub humour.

JP Liz

Ryan Tubridy

Mr E

Brendan O'Carroll? Seriously??
Why not just throw in Brendan Grace and Twink while you're at it!

Hard to pick from that list, though....

Elmo

Mr E wrote: »

Brendan O'Carroll? Seriously??
Why not just throw in Brendan Grace and Twink while you're at it!

Hard to pick from that list, though....

I was looking for an old comedian that might be able to hold a show on their own Twink worked on the Live Mike and Brendan Grace used to present Live From the Olympia.

You can make your own suggestion.

Mr E

Yeah I know. Struggling to come up with an irish presenter who has charisma, is funny & charming, and entertaining at the same time. Tubridy is probably the best we have.

Kathryn Thomas? (I know she has her haters, but she is very affable).

Bring back Gay Byrne?

Basq

I'd say give a shot to some of the younger more-inexperienced (on TV anyways) members of the entertainment industry.

e.g Ray Foley (I know he has his haters.. but he hasn't done much on TV bar an appearance on 'You're Fired') or Dermot Whelan.

fluke

Dave Fanning

Shane10

basquille wrote: »

I'd say give a shot to some of the younger more-inexperienced (on TV anyways) members of the entertainment industry.

e.g Ray Foley (I know he has his haters.. but he hasn't done much on TV bar an appearance on 'You're Fired') or Dermot Whelan.

hes desperate in fairness.
ya i like ray foley defo. he does seem better on the radio though. any times ive seen him on tv he dosent seem as animated. im left a bit disapointed but he is good IMO.

mikom

Paddy O'Gorman.......... shoulder mounter cam................ different county each week.