Irish Premier Broadcasting Event - The Late Late Toy Show - Tonight
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It's finally acceptable to put up the Christmas Tree and crack open a selection box, yes folks, The Late Late Toy Show is TONIGHT! Yipee!
It's set to be a supercalifragililsticezpialidocious night tonight, as The Late Late Toy Show goes Mary Poppins. Presented by Ryan Tubridy, who confirmed to RTÉ Ten yesterday that he will be dancing and singing at some stage during the show, the Toy Show is set to feature a record breaking 237 toys.
Ryan will also be joined for the first time by a co-host, Fergal Smith from Co Cavan, who wrote to Ryan asking him for a job on the show to help him get over his 'middle child syndrome'.
Throughout the show over 231 performers and demonstrators will take to the stage, with 34 of them performing a very special opening number from Mary Poppins.
So the Irish Broadcasting event of the year kicks off at 09:30 on RTÉ ONE & rte.ie (worldwide), the top progamme of the year on a continuous basis for which nearly the whole country watches (often topping over 1.5 million viewers). I can't but tune in every year and we all know from tonight at 09:30 Christmas has officially began!... Happy Christmas everyone
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True, Gay Byrne tried to get him banned though!
Poor wee Robert Keane was nearly in tears, I wonder if it was because of the noise.
Says more about Irish television than anything else, to be honest.
Yeah we were wondering about Keane's son too - the mother reckoned the kid was crying beforehand behind the stage.
They're still brave enough to do everything live though. Their two top chat shows both go out live at the weekend (one of which is two hours long). The equivalent shows in the UK like Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross are pre-recorded days in advance.
I've heard rumours their marriage may not be all it's cracked to be btw : talk of affairs on his part and suggestions she married him for status as much as anything else.
It makes for far better television though.....there's always an edge to the interviews as you don't know what's coming next.
I'd say Pat Kenny has nightmares about that nutter who stormed the set
Oh quieten down will you. Some of the things that get the top ratings in the UK is absolute dross
I agree with you about live television being better - remember The Panel, it used to be a great show going out live but RTÉ then decided to record it and it somehow lost its spark.
I don't think that he really did but every year it was a standing joke, Gay would always say about how they told him Dustin wouldn't be allowed in this year.
They do occasionally record parts, when Steven Gerrard was on it last year to promote a charity event his part was recorded as he had a match the next day.
I remember that Channel 4 used to show it sometimes when Gay Byrne was the presenter
It was actually on Channel Four for many years : 1984-1999 or something.