Gaybo to return as Late Late Host

iMax

I've heard this morning from someone who works in RTE, that Uncle Gaybo is going to present a six week show on Friday nights during the summer, live studio audience, light entertainment interview format. - which will be interesting as he's "Retired".

They also said that negotioations have opened on him returning to the hotseat for late late duties, depending on how well the show which is being viewed as a trial - (Late Late Lite if you will) is received.

gbee

He's not too bad, but he is a little past it. He said himself that the late Late was getting too much for him ~ maybe he's found some new youthfulness and is ready to take on this challenging role again?

From my experience with individuals who retire and end up more or less back working full time again after a few stints on and off, they don't last too much longer.

There is an initial delight but it soon gives way to why they left in the first places, this is chatting generally and is not a reflection on Mr Gaybo.

Oafley Jones

iMax wrote: »

I've heard this morning from someone who works in RTE, that Uncle Gaybo is going to present a six week show on Friday nights during the summer, live studio audience, light entertainment interview format. - which will be interesting as he's "Retired".

They also said that negotioations have opened on him returning to the hotseat for late late duties, depending on how well the show which is being viewed as a trial - (Late Late Lite if you will) is received.

Second parts sounds like rte trying to put pressure on tubridy. Which shows you what a poor organisation they are. They should at least be trying to rattle him with a real alternative or better still actally getting rid of him.

Colmo52

Its going to be called 'For One Night Only' where he'll have a musical guest on each week. There was a pilot on a few months ago with Westlife.

GAY BYRNE, FOR 37-years the host of the Late Late Show, will return to Irish television screens every Friday for six weeks this summer, according to a newspaper report today.
The Irish Mail on Sunday says that the 76-year-old broadcaster will host a new RTÉ music and chat show entitled ‘For One Night Only’ which will in fact run for six nights over a six-week period in July and August.
The programmes will be pre-recorded and filming will begin shortly, the paper reports, adding that the guests for the programmes are yet to be finalised and RTÉ have not officially confirmed the programme.

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/gay-byrne-to-get-new-friday-night-show-on-rte-118631-Apr2011/

telekon

Would love if this was true (but its not )

At the grand old age of 76, Gaybo is 10 times the presenter Tubridy is, or ever will be.

Gay's interview with Martin Sheen a few weeks back was the most interesting and informative interview I have seen in a looonngg time. Brilliant stuff.

Tubridy, take note: talking about depression, Irish connections, illness and staring at cue cards does not a good presenter make.

I remember Gaybo scolding Tubridy on his old show on Saturday night for depending on cue cards. It was brilliant.

Tubridy, as usual, had no come back. :rolleyes:

mike65

Sounds terrible, the sort of thing that Bibi Baskin, Mary Kennedy and then Babs from Prime Time struggled to make work in the bleak mid summer.

bernardo mac

LLS has become rather tedious.Radio, IMHO is more entertaining

gbee

bernardo mac wrote: »

LLS has become rather tedious.Radio, IMHO is more entertaining

Funny you should say that, in the early days I hated the LLS format because it was, for me, just a radio show.

bbbbb

Byrne reveals his pension is gone
'Everyone is worried and going through tough times,' says former host of Late Late Show
By Niamh Horan

Sunday July 12 2009

VETERAN broadcaster Gay Byrne has revealed that his pension fund has been wiped out by the recession.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/byrne-reveals-his-pension-is-gone-1818084.html

telekon

bbbbb wrote: »

Byrne reveals his pension is gone
'Everyone is worried and going through tough times,' says former host of Late Late Show
By Niamh Horan

Sunday July 12 2009

VETERAN broadcaster Gay Byrne has revealed that his pension fund has been wiped out by the recession.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/byrne-reveals-his-pension-is-gone-1818084.html

Just as it was 25 years ago when his accountant ran away with all his money (Traynor, I think yer man's name was)

Jaysus Gay, you really need to sort out your financial advisors...

RayM

mike65 wrote: »

Sounds terrible, the sort of thing that Bibi Baskin, Mary Kennedy and then Babs from Prime Time struggled to make work in the bleak mid summer.

And Phil Coulter. And (unless I'm mistaken) Daniel O'Donnell. Awful, awful stuff.

If RTÉ insists on having a chat show during the summer, they could always just run the Late Late Show all year round (thus saving money on tacky new set construction, etc) with a rota of guest presenters whenever Tubridy is on his holidays, moonlighting, writing literary masterpieces or whatever.

telekon wrote:

Just as it was 25 years ago when his accountant ran away with all his money (Traynor, I think yer man's name was)

Russell Murphy. And I only know that from listening to old episodes of Scrap Saturday.

Richard Dower

Jesus...he's STILL alive????????????

iMax

telekon wrote: »

Just as it was 25 years ago when his accountant ran away with all his money (Traynor, I think yer man's name was)

Jaysus Gay, you really need to sort out your financial advisors...

Des Traynor. I worked on a contract in IT in the same big 5 place that guy did. his network password was the name of an Island famous for offshore banking.

Skid

telekon wrote: »

Just as it was 25 years ago when his accountant ran away with all his money (Traynor, I think yer man's name was)

Jaysus Gay, you really need to sort out your financial advisors...

iMax wrote: »

Des Traynor. I worked on a contract in IT in the same big 5 place that guy did. his network password was the name of an Island famous for offshore banking.

I'm fairly sure it was Russell Murphy who was blamed for the fraud carried out on Gay Byrne.

Edit: RayM said this earlier, hadn't seen his post.

mike65

Russell Murphy cleaned out Gaybo, he said it robbed him of his first 20 years of savings. He did the same for Hugh Leonard

Deregos

Never mind Gaybo . .Bring back Pat Partridge I say . . .If only for his pure cringie style of entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELI1iigdmOs

All I'm seeing is a crowd of culchie ....s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2cqk4bCumw

SuperInfinity

No, not "Late Late Lite if you will", this show has nothing to do with the Late Late Show. Get it right.

iMax

Oooh get her...

Elmo

Ironic that The Late Late Show started out as a Summertime show back in the 1960s. Think this would be a strange thing to happen after all Smug Uncle Gaybo still has a chat show "lite".

Wester

I would think a lot of pensioners were cleaned out by the bust. Unluckily for them they can't go back to their former employer and ask for a few weeks of work here and there. Gaybo set the bar in his time and RTE would do better to look to the future and try and nurture some talent, as opposed to turning to the old reliables.

Elmo

Wester wrote: »

Gaybo set the bar in his time and RTE would do better to look to the future and try and nurture some talent, as opposed to turning to the old reliables.

Agreed. Which host/presenter should be given a shot. Young or Old but new with experience.

BARRETT.50BMG

The Savage Eye version of Joe Duffy would shake things up a bit . . . . . . . . him interviewing the McCanns would be like the deliverance . . . . . . . Im off to write a letter to RTE!

RachaelVO

telekon wrote: »

Would love if this was true (but its not )

At the grand old age of 76, Gaybo is 10 times the presenter Tubridy is, or ever will be.

Gay's interview with Martin Sheen a few weeks back was the most interesting and informative interview I have seen in a looonngg time. Brilliant stuff.

Tubridy, take note: talking about depression, Irish connections, illness and staring at cue cards does not a good presenter make.

I remember Gaybo scolding Tubridy on his old show on Saturday night for depending on cue cards. It was brilliant.

Tubridy, as usual, had no come back. :rolleyes:

I totally agree about the Martin Sheen interview, it was just class. I was completely absorbed in the entire interview. I actually enjoyed that entire series (Mean of Life).

I don't think tubridy is a bad presenter. I'm not mad about him on the radio, but I don't mind him so much on the LLS. When Jim Corr was on it, he reigned him in very well. Yes he's a bit bland, but that's what I'd be looking for, brain dead telly on a friday night!