Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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Well he's definitely good at reading. Prompts, cards, A4 pages etc. rather than being on top of his game.
Very much an production for Eason rather than a Virgin Media TV production.
RTÉ have a bookclub Googlebox-esq series on Thursday Nights called Page Turners
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2023/0125/1349241-page-turners-reading-list-the-books-featured-in-this-weeks-show/
Easons are producing tv shows now?
Bookshops like Easons have to cover costs and make a profit. Apart from academic books, this means concentrating on fast selling books rather than books that might sell one copy every few months. Not sure if some distributors still offer a sale or return scheme. Otherwise books have to be paid for and that means that they have to sell. Getting the balance right between the fast sellers and the slow sellers is a bit of an art. Without his radio show or the LLS, Tubridy isn't as influential as he was last year and the only thing for which people remember him is the 150K payments scandal. Radio and TV bookshows have a major advantage over podcasts in that they are zero/low effort for the audience.
Regards…jmcc
Plenty of Irish semi-states doing the same RTÉ is filled with shows "sponsored by" some semi-state e.g. My Uni Life is just a visual brochure for the member colleges of the IUA, the latest Track and Trails is largely supported by county councils and another "sponsor", any of the road safety programmes by the RSA, really horrible uninteresting programming in many cases, because VMTV, RTÉ and to a lesser extend TG4 give some editorial control over to these bodies.
Everytime since the bank guarantee Ive felt that banks should have "part sponsored by you, the Irish state" at the end of all their patronising ads.
You mean to tell me I am paying twice or three times for Baz across CnaM funded programming on VMTV, patronising ads and for DIY SOS on RTÉ!
OTT the schools ad for BoI is daft you'd think that school's didn't have Business Studies as an option, or that Home Ec didn't cover household budgeting.
Well, there's the elephant in the room that can't be mentioned.
Seems our hero is a just a book lover with an evangelical zeal (his words). And Keith Richards had better watch out as well.
More shout outs to restaurants where he can get a freebie in return.
https://evoke.ie/2024/04/21/entertainment/celebrity/ryan-tubridy-ed-sheeran
so the only part of ‘The London Diary’ that’s in anyway related to him living in London is that he now has his Ed Sheeran guitar with him in London, and he shares a local with Ed Sheeran.
And the rest of the article discusses successful tic tokers. And some successful Irish people…
Absolutely riveting stuff
On the podcast does Tubs know what his guests book choices will be beforehand or is it a suprise to him?
Switched on radio just now, he was in full flight about the podcast. Off to an alternative channel. 📻
Read the latest Tubridy article. Doesn't seem to be any mention of the next guest on his podcast.
Just skimmed through that. I'm not an Ed Sheeran fan, whatsoever, but I'm fairly sure he didn't need Tubridy to help his career/ popularity in Ireland.
The idea that Ryan gets asked regularly by strangers how to start reading is funny.
I see that today's guest on the pod is Cecilia Ahern. It didn't take long to him having to fall back on the parade of LLS regulars. Dermot Bannon has to be next, surely? Francis Brennan? Will he have The Duffster on?
It's really to get back to Ireland and Irish broadcasting.
It looks like this interview takes place in Dublin?
She remembers a lot, not very like her father!
I'll have to take your word for that - no way am I subscribing to that, or downloading to help his stats
This could explain the week off 2 weeks ago! get over to Dublin and record the entire series in a few days…
Do people really recognise him on the streets of London? Perhaps it is just a feature of his Virgin Radio show.
Two may not be enough for a pattern:
David Walliams. Publisher: Harper Collins.
Cecelia Ahern. Publisher: HarperCollins.
May be just coincidence. Don't think that Easons would have sponsored it if it was a mini-LLS so there may be more authors than RTE canteen dwellers on the next ones.
One thing both guests had in common was they had something to sell at the moment. Maybe that's the pattern?
I still expect we'll be hearing from Dermot Gavin, Francis Brennan, Brendan O'Carroll 🤢
We'll just have to wait and see, I guess.
They do hence the book tour aspect of Tubridy's podcast. Easons will want value for money and to see that those links translate into sales. But the HarperCollins publisher connection is interesting because of the owner of HarperCollins. Perhaps the next guest authors will have different publishers but two is not enough for a pattern.
So far, the podcast guests would appeal to Tubridy's demographics. It might be unusual if the guest list strayed too far from the books they would buy. Next up might be a detective/true crime author.
My money is on Gavin.
Whatever happened to this project? https://m.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/ryan-tubridy-and-vogue-williams-tease-secret-project-as-pair-share-video-from-london/a202828284.html
Could she be a guest on his book podcast?
Vogue most likely realised (as someone who'd probably fairly tuned into social media/public opinion etc..) that association with Tubridy would likely be toxic to her own brand and interests, so quickly backed away from whatever was being discussed.
She lives in the UK so might not have gauged the mood in Ireland around Barter Acc boy, but I can imagine she'd have read feedback since her appearance with him and probably reassessed. He adds nothing to her UK audience, and is probably more a negative distraction for her Irish followers.
JNLR due in ~2 weeks and RAJAR on the 16th of May. I suspect the JNLR figures won't be thrown around press releases unless they're very good; so it'll need someone with access to the books to release them - only the station % and top ten shows make the press release.
She's also a lot smarter than Tubridy and has a brand to protect.
