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.
copying some frequent posters from original thread.
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well he’s finally found a hook to keep people listening
Different to his normal style?
Regards…jmcc
since the Panti Bliss/Rory O’Neill episode he overnight became “risk averse” himself
Coming up on the 4 month mark now since he started. The novelty has worn off. The honeymoon over.…The sheer trauma of putting in 3, maybe 4 full hours in the studio, 5 days a week is starting to bite. No impromptu duvet days whenever he fancies it. No week off every couple of months. No teachers holiday schedule to luxuriate in. The only hope, the possibility of Virgin giving him the axe before year end. That would end this purgatory. But what then?
The Toblerone addiction only a matter of time.
I'm listening at the moment. He sounds like he's having a nervous breakdown.
But he's not in Ireland is he?
He might have a slot that's broadcast to Ireland, and he might pander only to an Irish audience on that slot, but he's not in Ireland.
The fact that his show robbed hours off a golden oldies channel in Cork says a lot.
the Sunday 10am to 12 midday slot on local radio is the golden oldies slot on Nursing FM as the original poster puts it 😂
Ithink I'd struggle to name 5 broadcasters in Ireland. Tubridy would be on that list, but it's hardly an endorsement of his celebrity.
There's so much detail there that I'm now convinced that there must have been connections.
He’s still suffering from that on his weekend radio show. To be fair, RTÉ were sued by the, homophobic, lunatic fringe when a guest pointed out, correctly, that they were homophobic.
He’s been a slave to RTÉ’s, dreaded, “balance” ever since.
You are remembering it slightly wrong.
1st series, yes he did have that attitude.
2nd series, he seemed to be afraid to let anyone voice any controversial opinions, as the show died a death as a result.
I loved Brendan O'connor on Cutting Edge, he came across with a '**** you' attitude and said what he thought, he's toned down a lot since then, would have loved him on the LLS if he was able to be himself.
He's curious and has a natural affinity with most guests on his show.
Agreed. It's something I have said previously about Tubridy, he has no real curiosity about people. He lived in a bubble, within the cosy confines of Montrose and his environs, with occasional forays to Clifden. That was it, really. Just watching Graham Norton here, a repeat, and (of course) there's no comparison. Graham is always on top of his brief, is well read and best of all, has a sense of humour. He handles the fun and the serious stuff with equal skill.
The LLS with Tubridy lacked any spontaneity because he had to have everything so scripted. I tried to watch when he first took over but I couldn't. I can't abide D'Arcy so didn't watch the show once he replaced Brendan O'Connor.
That was certainly the rumour.
Gave the slot to Ray. Who had a Jack Nicholson look a like on. He introduced him as if he WAS Jack Nicholson. The audiece gave him a standing ovation (I assume promted by the production team). Then they were told by "No, no. Ya know it is not really him. It is just a look a like".
He wasn't even a professional look a like. They then spent the segment talking this random strangers life. Who he was, if he was enjoying his vacation in Ireland, etc.
I always felt sorry for the audience, being made fools of live in air.
Without doubt. He's curious and has a natural affinity with most guests on his show. Like all good interviewers, he just treats everyone like a normal human being and usually attempts to dismantle the celebrity persona in front of him, if he can. Unlike Tubs, who prefers to worship at the alter of celebrity.
Ray D'arcy is alright for the afternoon light entertainment radio show he does, but like Tubs, should never have been let near a chat show on TV.
I remeber a guest on Ryans morning program. He was on somewhere between Jan 2021 and May 2022. He was the head od something or other. But effectivly Ryans bosses boss. He mentioned that when Ryan started he had been told by multiple people above him to keep an eye out for Ryan and to look after him.
That would suggest some connections, no?
Think that his show started getting more viewers than Tubridy's LLS so RTE management canned his show instead of giving him the LLS.
I used to enjoy his tv show.
He was a far better chat show host, in my opinion than either Tubridy or D'Arcy.
"RTE management seem to be risk averse and incapable of innovation."
That's for sure.
Would encourage anyone who might be interested to listen back to Brendan O' Connor's half hour interview with Rushdie over the weekend. It was very clear Brendan had read the book, asked pertinent questions about key points in it and allowed the interviewee to talk at length about his stabbing ordeal and near death experience….
There was no whooping, hollering, or inquiries about Salman's love of Ireland, Guinness or carrying pigs under his arm.
Brendan's a real pro!
I thought that he had two children.
https://evoke.ie/2024/04/28/entertainment/celebrity/ryan-tubridy-guinness
Incumbency. He had a "Tubridy Tonight" show before it and also a radio show or two. RTE management seem to be risk averse and incapable of innovation.
"McWilliams would have been a far more interesting LLS choice but he hadn't the connections that Tubridy had."
What connections got Tubridy the LLS gig?
Yes. A 1second viewing or a misclicking that loads the page counts as a view.
You can also see retention stats on your own videos, when people tune in or tune out. Be interesting to see if theres a big dropoff of people closing the video in the first 60 seconds...
Yeah, but you can see how long some one stayed with the video and the most watched parts of the video, but I think views are simply if you have played a video from 1second.
@bellbottoms I noticed that Bobson stated a thread about Tubs before this one but it got closed down. You might get some answers from there.
Tubridy was a very bad choice for the LLS. What is surprising is that Joe Rogan podcasts can run to four hours or more. Tubridy's style, by comparison, is like that of a spoilt child on a sugar rush hopping from topic to topic.
McWilliams would have been a far more interesting LLS choice but he hadn't the connections that Tubridy had. Cooper would have done well too. Even Brendan O'Connor could have handled it. With podcasting, Tubridy seems to be a generation too late and what he thought was his audience turned out to be RTE's and that of the time slots all along. Very little of it seems to be translating to his podcasts.
Does watching YouTube for a minute or two count as a view when they do the tally?
Heartbeat is comfort programming also. It started out very issue based than it became, largely its soft 60s nostalgia, the idea of the small town police station dealing with a few issue based crimes, their love lives and final the auld rascals trying to make a quick book on the black market.
Colombo is way out of the league of Murder, She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder. You might think he's a bit twee but the shows are very well written, particular those early seasons, the 1990s season are very much a nostalgic look back with writers who'd been writing on the Return of Perry Mason or Matlock.
Thats what I would love to know as well.
