The Late Late Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread

Don't think Xpose being recorded presumably close to broadcast it will affect it too much - and actually any show being forced to ditch interaction with the Twitterati is probably a good thing.

I'm not sure Entertainment Tonight is broadcast live - from the bits and pieces I've seen it's to slick (that's not a complement) to be live.

The News is worthwhile and Much as it's criticized Xpose has a place but the Seven O Clock show is just filler, it was put on at that time in a rush because all their other programmes failed. It's the same with this News. They claim it was always the plan to put the News on at 8. I somehow doubt that. If it was their plan they were 3 months too late. It should have been launched the Same week Red Rock came on.

The audience appear to have moved on at this stage and this does seem to be a last throw of the dice to be honest. They'd be better off Having all News and Current Affairs till 9 and then Red Rock and their Other entertainment shows. Counter what's on The other stations as much as possible rather than going after the same audience. However, it might be too little, too late.

It's evolving - in a way they're having to start more from scratch than UTV Ireland. I don't think news and current affairs through to 9pm is the answer at all - that's not the channel TV3 is. Although the 7pm Show is clearly an emergency solution to a problem it has a chance - The One Show has stuck on BBC1 longer than I suspect many thought it would. I do think though they should ensure The 7pm Show at least breaks for the summer to give other shows a chance in the slot.

They can now concentrate on 8.30-11pm and I think filling 8.30pm with Irish content is key - they've got two slots filled already and should have enough to put in the other slots with minimum investment. They need to make home grown content their strongest asset.

I appricate what you're saying but Figures between 7 and 8 since the 5th of January have been shocking. Nothing has worked at that time and I doubt the Seven O Clock show will do any better. If it couldn't get much of an audience after 2 years on in the afternoon, it's not going to get an audience at 7 when it's natural audience are everywhere else. They'd be much better off showing some American Drama at that time. It mightn't do any better but it would be a lot cheaper.

Filling the 8;30 slot with Quality Irish Content is the key. Red Rock is decent and there are some other shows that might be okay, but a lot of what they've produced recently is ropey.

As for not putting on Current Affairs, they're the only shows that now actually work on TV3. All the entertainment shows in primetime don't do well. The News is actually the only show with decent ratings at this stage. TV3 will have to reinvent itself and quickly.

TV3 are having to start from scrtach but they don't have the ability to rack up 10 or 15 million in losses over the next 2 years like UTV Ireland. A few more months of these figures and they'll either close or go back to the Irish Taxpayer for yet another bailout.

It'll be interesting to see how they use the BGT Live week. Assuming ITV stick with the 7.30-9/9.30-10 slots I guess they can either run filler at 7pm (like Come Dine with Me) and if they don't drop the news run it at 9pm - but IMO it would be better to air the news at 7pm and strip Red Rock for a week at 9pm to try and take advantage of that audience - I know it would likely be up against Corrie but not using BGT to help Red Rock seems foolish.

BGT week rather messes up UTV Ireland's usual schedule. Presumably ITV wouldn't allow them advance copies to screen Coronation Street in its usual slots (ahead of network ITV).

Red Rock would never be able to Compete against Coronation Street. Plus if they Strip Red Rock over a week, that's another 2 and half weeks in the Summer with no Red Rock. I actually think they would be better off putting Red Rock on Directly after BGT on Saturdays and then have the BGT extra show on after it. BGT should have much bigger audiences this year because UPC viewers will have to watch it on TV3.

I can actually see non UPC households watching an ITV HD or UTV HD feed on Satellite or Aerial to avoid all the switching about. Plus a better picture for most people. There are one or two BGT fans in the office I'm in and they all be watching ITV on Satellite because it's in HD and TV3 is not.

I just got word that RTE One HD has replaced the regular RTE One on Saorsat.

Well done RTE, common sense has prevailed

Now, how long will it take for them to get it on Sky I wonder...?

No changes to TV3 news presentation, though the "News at 8:00" logo (yes, it really does read that) looks really awful in the title sequence that was quite obviously only ever designed to read "The 5:30" (though, as well as "The 12:30", there is a hardly-ever used version that reads "3 NEWS" that they probably should have used here). Astons read "3 NEWS" (as they do on The 12:30) - obviously common sense as trying to squeeze the News at 8:00 logo wouldn't work (the text would be really really small!).

Meanwhile TV3's idents have had "We entertain" added to them, though that happened a few weeks back.