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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I kind of dismissed it before but when Tubridy's Virgin Radio UK contract is up, RTE will probably be in a financial position to go ahead and re-employ this "talented broadcaster" as Kevin Backhurst describes him. Sure they will have oodles of money to throw away again.
that is unbelievable… he’ll be allowed slip in the rear door of Montrose, and shortly take centre stage in the studios 🤦♀️
He could do the death notices as filler.
Who?
Two artistic directors have been brought in from the UK to work on the Late Late Toy Show, even though the Christmas special already has its own in-house producer and director.
The Sunday Independent understands the pair have been tasked with delivering the Toy Show’s opening number.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/new-rte-toy-show-upset-as-two-outsiders-are-brought-in-to-work-on-this-years-production/a235054192.html
RTE are absolutely taking the p** at this stage. Last year people liked the Toy Show because the smirking, overbearing Tubridy wasn't involved. How many people really care about the musical numbers? It was back to being a bit of fun, not scripted conversations and sob stories.
Does he actually really read these books? Granted, I'm sure he will try focusing on getting through the one that has been placed on top.
I have read three of those authors Norton, Osman and OCK. I can tell you there is not a lot of reading in their books. Easy enough to get through. I belive Power is a self help author, so should be easy enough to get through. I am not familer with Loxton so cannot comment.
Should be able to plough through those easily enough in a month. Are they freebies with publication dates marked on the spine.
As a poltical nerd, I am suprised he isn't reading Anne Applebaums new book. Which was just released last week.
You have it wrong two artistic directors have been brought in to work on "The opening number". No the show, just the opening number.
It's really getting like no lessons have been learnt.
That article is peculiar. When is Bakhurst supposed to have said this? If it's recently, then he has lost any tiny shred of credibility that he had,
I think some of it was said at the time when Tubridy was sacked. But with the type of bailout that RTE have been given, nothing that Backhurst, that organisation or our government announces in the future would surprise me.
If he's brought back there will be uproar among the staff in RTE, and licence fee collection will collapse once more, putting the entire RTE organization at risk. I begrudgingly paid this year, but only after and because Tubridy was booted out. Won't be paying it again if he's brought back.
Over to you Kev.
And he's a bang average broadcaster by the way, should be obvious by now.
And he's a bang average broadcaster
I think you are being extremely kind to him with that statement…..
Whatever credibility Bakhurst had evaporated when he gave Ray "buttons" D'Arcy a new 4 year, 250K p.a. contract
A seance you say? Maybe he could try and make contact with his now dead career?
It's Vague magazine a Tubridy safe space?
I reckon it's a bit of mischief to stir the pot in the silly season. I do vaguely remember Bakhurst saying something like that before Bryan spat the dummy.
They should bring back Dee Frobes too, don't you think Bob? I doubt they will bring him back, audience numbers largely static since he left, much like that of Mr Kenny, Kenny's TV career is large over at this point.
Ryan, being the Book Man that he is, will no doubt at all, make some points about the finer aspects of Edna O’Brien’s writings,
I interviewed Hilary Clinton soon after she lost the 2016 race and as we sat facing each other in upstate New York, I remember vividly how engaging she was.
I walked away from that encounter thinking that if her campaign managers let that version of Hilary run for the White House with all her warmth, empathy and easy humour (none of which were on show in the run up to election day) I was quite certain she would have won and the world would be a very different place.
I had just landed in my flat here in London and as I turned on CNN, my eldest daughter FaceTimed to tell me to turn on the news, Biden was out. I was not surprised but I was shocked. I think most of all, I was relieved – it was definitely time to step aside.
https://evoke.ie/2024/07/28/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-kamala-harris-brat
That's what I thought, I remember him saying something along those lines, at that time. And yes, that's true re bailout - 'right lads and lassies, ye played fast and loose with public money previously, so here's lots more.' 🙄
Yes indeed. Not that he had much credibility to begin with, imo, anyway.
He had the horn for Hilary, presumably he will have the kink for Kamala
RTÉ should start him off on News 2 Day, he can work his way back.
The election takes place in a land far away called November and if a week is a long time in politics, can you imagine what might happen in 15 weeks? It won’t be boring, that is for sure.
They should give him a bucket and tell him to go mop the car park
And so the rehabilitation of Ryan begins…..
Are they freebies with publication dates marked on the spine.
Yes, they are. I've Alice Loxton's book on order and only a couple of days ago she was doing a massive book signing at the printers. Should arrive on 15 Aug. He won't even open the cover of her book - from Waterstones blurb, "In this unconventional and witty history, award-winning writer and broadcaster, Alice Loxton, delves into Britain’s past, exploring the country though eighteen notable figures at this formative age."
https://evoke.ie/2024/07/28/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-kamala-harris-brat Regarding that article, he leans far too heavily on the use of adjectives when talking and writing as sometimes the use of such words can be an attempt give the reader - whether it is print or listener when it is radio, the impression that he is more intelligent than he is. He does not want to make the article a political diary but that is exactly what he ends up doing and that is exactly Tubridy. His reference to driving through the southern states, making reference to the feel and vibe and then immediately going into a description and comparison as to the type of "junkie" he is residing in the thriving coastal cities, smacks of the type of entitlement and privileged vibe that oozes from him and what can make him so dislikable.
No improvement in his radio show either but there is also another smug vibe coming from him that he just doesn't care, his ass will be covered irrespective of how well he is received (or not) when his contract is up at Virgin Radio UK.
Jáysus Hawley, I actually read that quote initially thinking you were doing a sketch of Tubs, until I realised it was verbatim.
But you missed a bit elsewhere in there, where he says "people love authenticity and can smell a fake a mile off" - oh, the irony.
amazed that you have never met him… …………
RAJARs out soon I guess for Q2.
