[bkman1990]

RTÉ have lost €3m in TV Licence renewals as a result of it's payments scandal involving Ryan Tubridy when compared to the same period last year.

RTÉ TV licence revenue loss close to €3m due to ‘hidden payments’ scandal (msn.com)

MSN

  Source: www.msn.com

[AJB39]

RTÉ have lost €3m in TV Licence renewals as a result of it's payments scandal involving Ryan Tubridy when compared to the same period last year.

RTÉ TV licence revenue loss close to €3m due to ‘hidden payments’ scandal (msn.com)

Yes it’s not a pretty picture. I suspect cuts in programming and content in RTÉ are inevitable before the Irish Government finally gets around to implementing Licence Fee Reform. They may have to give RTE emergency funding in the meantime but that will also come with conditions.

[bkman1990]

RTÉ have announced that the new series of The Late Late Show with Patrick Kielty will begin on the 15th of September.

www.rte.ie 

Late Late Show's return date announced
The September return date for the Late Late Show has been announced.
  Source: www.rte.ie

The online application form for tickets has appeared on RTÉ's website since today. No new graphics have appeared for the show yet.

The official instagram account has stripped all references to Tubridy as host with having two posts including Patrick Kielty to date.

When do you think we will see a new logo for the Late Late between now and September?

[JMT1985]

Mid September is a decent launch time for the show - for me, I am hoping they have reduced its run time to 90 minutes, as even Ryan Tubridy said he felt the over two hour format needed changing.

Hopefully Patrick has kept the owl, as it is the icon for the show

The theme tune is the issue for me - Gay Byrne's era theme tune is brilliant, but Tubridy decided to butcher that in his versions of it, and also the "To Whom It Concerns" is just more associated with Gay Byrne, that I feel a brand new theme tune is needed.

Pat Kenny had a very decent theme tune, and I feel Patrick's production should have a fresh new theme tune, maybe with night time scenes of Dublin, leading up to the night time view of RTE Television Centre, with The Late Late Show logo over it.

[Rdd]

Mid September is a decent launch time for the show - for me, I am hoping they have reduced its run time to 90 minutes, as even Ryan Tubridy said he felt the over two hour format needed changing.

Hopefully Patrick has kept the owl, as it is the icon for the show

The theme tune is the issue for me - Gay Byrne's era theme tune is brilliant, but Tubridy decided to butcher that in his versions of it, and also the "To Whom It Concerns" is just more associated with Gay Byrne, that I feel a brand new theme tune is needed.

Pat Kenny had a very decent theme tune, and I feel Patrick's production should have a fresh new theme tune, maybe with night time scenes of Dublin, leading up to the night time view of RTE Television Centre, with The Late Late Show logo over it.

Pat Kenny felt pretty much they same, or at least he said that publicly just before taking up the reigns. But then his theme tune was essentially a soundalike - a tune that wasn’t To Whom it Concerns but tried its best to sound like it - it even incorporated a similar drum roll.

TWIC (originally a single by Chris Andrews) is iconic and I was glad Tubridy brought it back, even though I wasn’t really a fan of the Brian Byrne arrangement used for most of Tubridy’s tenure - though to be fair that was arranged to fit in with the musical style of the house band that carried over from Tubridy Tonight and was a key feature of those years (dumped suddenly when Covid came along though). 

BTW the version used for the last few years (since 2019 IIRC) is the exact same arrangement as was used by Gay Byrne - just with a bit of the opening drum roll cut for timing (in Gay Byrne’s day, there was the odd practice of running the credits over the opening titles, which is why they were so long in the first place).  I do hope they’ll keep it, but hopefully the titles will be a bit less cheesy than the later Tubridy version, which was (visually speaking) awful.

[AJB39]

RTÉ have announced that the new series of The Late Late Show with Patrick Kielty will begin on the 15th of September.

www.rte.ie 

The online application form for tickets has appeared on RTÉ's website since today. No new graphics have appeared for the show yet.

The official instagram account has stripped all references to Tubridy as host with having two posts including Patrick Kielty to date.

When do you think we will see a new logo for the Late Late between now and September?

The later start date is also consistent with the shorter 30 episode season that Kielty is contracted to do. I think Tubridy did up to 38 episodes a season.

[JMT1985]

If they keep this show as an over two hour format, I think they would miss an opportunity to really refresh this show.

That two hour live show concept was a thing of the past - I feel having it tightened to 90 minutes at maximum would make the show better, fresher and just right.

[bkman1990]

Some interesting news about the ongoing financial controversy at RTÉ today.

The 2nd Grant Thornton report about Ryan Tubridy's salary was officially published today. The report runs to about 70 pages. It outlined that RTÉ were responsible in understating Ryan Tubridy's salary of over €500k during the noted years of the payments controversy to Mr Tubridy.

www.rte.ie 

'Plausible' RTÉ altered Tubridy pay to keep under €500K
A report by Grant Thornton has found a plausible explanation for the under-decla…
  Source: www.rte.ie

EDIT:

The official report is here if you guys want to read it.

about.rte.ie 

[Rdd]

If they keep this show as an over two hour format, I think they would miss an opportunity to really refresh this show.

That two hour live show concept was a thing of the past - I feel having it tightened to 90 minutes at maximum would make the show better, fresher and just right.

Confirmed today that the run time has been cut to 90 minutes.
www.irishtimes.com 

Late Late Show trims its broadcast slot to 90 minutes – The Irish Times
Shorter run time as Patrick Kielty takes the chair but no change in advertising …
  Source: www.irishtimes.com

(leaky paywall)

[JMT1985]

Confirmed today that the run time has been cut to 90 minutes.
www.irishtimes.com 
(leaky paywall)

Just as I expected - this was even put across by Tubridy before he left, he said the show needed to be cut down from the over two hour format - those days are long gone. So with adverts, which will probably mean just three breaks in the 90 minutes as RTE is limited in it's advertising, I wonder if they might have a problem with money. Unless they can get a decent sponsor for the show?