Saturday Night with Miriam | |
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Genre | Chat Show |
Presented by | Miriam O'Callaghan |
Country of origin | Ireland |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 11 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Larry Masterson |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | RTÉ One |
Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | 9 July 2005 | – Present
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Saturday Night with Miriam is a televised talk show first broadcast on RTÉ One in the summer of 2005. The show runs for six weeks as a summer filler, and is overseen by Miriam O'Callaghan, a co-presenter of Prime Time.
Saturday Night with Miriam, airs during summer months on RTÉ One when programmes such as The Late Late Show and the former Saturday night talk show Tubridy Tonight are off air. The show has a wide variety of guests, often including musicians, who usually perform on the show. The Duckworth Lewis Method made their television debut on Saturday Night with Miriam in 2009's season opener.
The first two series were pre-recorded show was broadcast on Saturday nights after the main evening news, lasting approximately 60 minutes. In the 2007 series, the programme began to broadcast live.
The show's first guests included Charlie McCreevy, Paul Brady, D. J. Carey and Ray D'Arcy. The programme received thirty-six percent of the adult audience.
The series was also run in summer 2006 and a third series ran in 2007.
The fourth series in 2008 was very popular and achieved a forty percent audience . People such as Mary Coughlan, Enda Kenny, Cherie Blair and Jade Goody appeared on the series.
In 2009, the series returned for a fifth series, with RTÉ making the announcement on 4 June 2009. This happened after it was announced that she would not be the new host of The Late Late Show. O'Callaghan also got her first radio programme, filling in for Eamon Dunphy on Miriam Meets.... Newly elected politician George Lee was one of the first guests of the fifth series. The final episode of the fifth series received 422,000 viewers, a 35% audience share.