[JMT1985]

The Late Late Show should be shortened to 90 minutes, and with an emphasis on getting some decent stars to appear on the show - rumours were going around during the final years of Tubridy's tenure that his production team were getting their guests from whoever was visiting RTE at the time, especially in their canteen.

Interesting that during the key stages of the pandemic, the show did attract bigger names, who were of course interviewed via Zoom video conferencing, but they managed to pull in big stars - as soon as restrictions were lifted and a live studio audience returned, it was back to the dire mix of guests and heavy depressing stories which were a complete turn off for viewers who want to be entertained on a Friday night.

RTE seems to live in the past - they think the show should remain the same as it has always been - especially with the long drawn out interviews with substandard guests. RTE forget, Irish viewers have complete access to the UK channels and international channels, as well as streaming. That era of The Late Late Show is dead and buried, except RTE feel they can reanimate it's corpse every Friday night.

Hopefully Paddy will give the show a huge kick up the arse it needs, and stop being complacent. As one Irish media critic said about the show, it continues to rely on the older generation of viewers, those viewers are are dying off every year, but RTE still panders to them and not to the under 50s.