Ryan Tubridy - From Virgin to Youtube **Mod: Read OP**

I agree tubs has effectively distorted the former rte management and any credibility they may have had.

Their hubris has been their undoing.

But while bakhurst talks of 400 jobs to go either voluntary redundancy or otherwise, unless everyone from the top down is singing off the same hymn sheet, things won't change.

I appreciate the man came into a new job and doubtful he saw the sh$tshow that was to come.

Or in her shed, if they're looking to cut costs...

I don't get the want to have the LLS remain after PK stint.

It's it so important to this country or to the watching public?

It seems to always be the same formula. Same rotation of guests.

The demographic of viewing public is changing. The older generation who would have watched it religiously are dying out. Do younger people brought up on a diet of streaming and access to everything on the net really want to watch the LLS in the coming decades?

Personally thing it should die a quiet painless death and let rte admit that this country doesn't have access to the celebrities needed to keep a 'talk show' going.

I know I don't watch it. Haven't since the early 80s and have no interest in doing so.

And don't get me started on viewing figures. Where they pull the numbers of viewer/listener figures from for tv or radio shows is a mystery to me😃

I never watched it in the Kenny or tubridy years, but I had enjoyed Kielty gigs over the years. He can read a hall the way the other two never learned how to.

I actually found myself for the first time in my adult life feeling disappointed it wasn't on last Friday, and that's only because I enjoy Kielty.

Will it survive after Kielty? If it doesn't no loss.

Has he started to move past being Irish yet, or is it still all about being Irish and Ireland again this week?

If so, he's probably not intending this to be a long term gig and has little interest in making it big in the UK. Its a stopgap until RTE believe he has served his time and he's brought back in. And if RTE do that, its curtains for RTE and licence fee revenue.

He was asked for a recommendation for a person who is not really into reading. The book he recommended (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), was one that he did on his book club on Radio One more than ten years ago. He did the same thing a few years back when asked what is his favourite book. He answered 'Never Let Me Go', which was also part of that book club.

Considering that the book club only lasted for about a year and included maybe a dozen titles, it's odd that he's still almost exclusively picking them as his favourite books over a decade later. Makes me think that he's a spoofer of the highest order when he calls himself a bookworm. Also, he didn't pick those titles for the book club on RTE, so it's not like the were his all time favourite books. He read them as part of his job. He seems to love short books, that are only one hundred pages long.

Not yet, but perhaps NK is working on that.

To be fair to him, books are like music in that you don’t, necessarily, recommend your favourite book, or album, to someone who isn’t that into books or music.