Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

I am also surprised that Sean Whelan was at the Oscars yet I don't think he produced a report in relation to the train derailments in Ohio?

Tubbers is stepping down from the Late Late…

so read that as sacked!!

Tubs leaving the LLS is quite a turn of events, considering it was only a few weeks ago he said he was going nowhere for a good while. My guess is he wouldn't take any more pay cuts

I'd say it was planned, he had a cut in wages and said he'd finish on TLLS at the end of his contract and his new contract has TV built in, until the realise that he's not all that likeable.

2024: Tubs: The Irish Famine, New York The Irish Story, Ireland in Power in the US, Ireland and WW2, Ireland The Civil War.

2025: Tubs and Friends (AKA Pat Kenny In The Round)

2026: The Meaning Of Life but not the meaning of life because Joe Duffy is still presenting that one

2027: Scratch Saturday book review with Ryan Tubridy.

2028: Well much like Ray D'Arcy tubs won't be going on as many holidays from the radio show!

No but good news Dee has said she's going to consider changing the format.

I will do as Dee does and consider such changes and I will be as likely to effect that change as much as any former DG of RTÉ, I will of course have a chin wag with Bob Collins, Cathal Goan, Noel Curran and Dee Forbes so that we call also try to get the new DG to see our point of view. It will be a lot of fun!

That show's been rigged ever since Aidan O'Mahony won in it's first year. You could tell the RTE folks were quite upset that Aidan won that one. The GAA vote even kept in Des Cahill. Since then, it's been rigged for the likes of Lottie or Mairead whatsherface.

It's pre-recorded. Filmed around October/ November according to folks in the know.

Tiernan is hopeless at everything but been good or half presentable has never been a prerequisite for becoming an Rte lifer. Brendan O'Carroll another example.

Drawing in good viewers, it's lost a lot of them, though it is going a number of years.

RTÉ always flash the audience figures when they are good, but not so much when they are bad. Watch Claire Byrne's Ireland's Smartest get large numbers in week one, largely by people to see if she's good enough for TLLS and then the following week to have low figures because RTÉ don't seem to know how to produce the most basic of TV programmes.

Yeah 12 week run, they have started to record Ask Me Anything, I assume that will start back in September and have a similar run.

It might be but ... RTÉ have form on this ... and even if the show is not good Claire Byrne should be able to bring in those viewers.

And we should take an anylitical look at audience number when it comes to stars remember RTÉ states that these stars bring in revenue and that its only 1% of their total budget and that the rest goes on ... "other things".

Just think of Tubs in Gerry Ryan's old slot for 5 years and how that worked out.