Today Tonight.

Hangdogroad

RTE current affairs programme which ran from 1980 to 1992. Like a lot of people of a certain generation, the theme tune and the :double T" programme logo are instantly recognisable.

https://youtu.be/98ysk6o7y8Q?si=ula_yuzwFlSthNqZ

I've no memory at all though of this later intro and arrangement of the theme tune, it is the same theme but barely recognisable. Does anyone how long this was used for. This is from the very final edition of TT in 1992

https://youtu.be/VoXMUD25ghQ?si=vBGQotkZkYZbFjFt

Edit: Hosting for the viewing the video on platforms has been disabled by uploader. It can be seen on YouTube if you type in. "Final Today Tonight edition"

goingmadted

Seriously , it ended in 1992? I would have swore it went on untill the early naughties at least.

God i feel old. 😫

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123673099#Comment_123673099

It was replaced by Prime Time which was pretty much the same format.

squonk

Now I see the second intro I do remember it but it’s bigger best as dynamic or striking as the original. Neither is the show that replaced it mind you. TT from memory had an excellent line up of presenters. Brian Farrell, Olivia O’Leary and John Bowman. All serious heavyweights. Miriam O’Callaghan is nowhere in the same league and is basically the media wing of her FF family. Strikes me more of RTE modernising but dumbing everything down.

icdg

The later intro was only used for the last two years of the programme at most - I think it debuted not long after the 1990 Presidential Election, but it could have been 1991 either.

Prime Time was originally not meant to have been Today Tonight under a different name. RTE was relaunching their current affairs with a new approach and Brian Farrell and Olivia O’Leary were given separate shows. Farrell was on Sunday night and was long form interviews, the old Wednesday Report slot (which was originally a separate programme but had fairly recently been incorporated into Today Tonight) which was long form pieces moved to Tuesday and became Tuesday File. There was also a business show on Wednesday and Questions and Answers on Monday, which already existed, was the last part of the stranded approach. Prime Time was Olivia O’Leary’s show, with her catchphrase “it’s Thursday, it’s Prime Time”. The stranded approach was essentially abandoned after a few years, Brian Farrell went back to Prime Time and it became Today Tonight 2.0 after that.

George White

Mmy grandad would always call the Independent culture section Day and Night Today Tonight.

Galwayguy35

Back then Brian Farrell, now we have Miriam O Callaghan.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123673682#Comment_123673682

“Brian Farrell, Olivia O’Leary and John Bowman.”

Absolutely the heavy weights of current affairs broadcasting - no-one really comes close in todays terms

moceri

Seven days was its predecessor. Ted Nealon & Brian Farrell were great presenters.

MfMan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123730570#Comment_123730570

You know you're old when you can remember this one too. It also had distinctive theme music, which it shared with another Irish language program of the time - 'Seachtain'? Anyone remember it?