The Saturday Night Show
| The Saturday Night Show | |
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Opening titles for The Saturday Night Show
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| Genre | Light entertainment |
| Presented by | Brendan O'Connor |
| Starring | Brendan O'Connor |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 11 |
| No. of episodes | 133+ |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Larry Masterson |
| Producer(s) | Various |
| Location(s) | Studio 4, RTÉ Television Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Distributor | RTÉ |
| Release | |
| Original network | RTÉ One |
| Original release | 30 January 2010 – 30 May 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Tubridy Tonight |
| Followed by | Tonight with Craig Doyle |
| Related shows | The Late Late Show |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Saturday Night Show is a talk show hosted by Brendan O'Connor broadcast on RTÉ One between 2010 and 2015. The show features guest interviews, audience participation and live music. The Saturday Night Show is broadcast every Saturday night during the autumn-spring season directly after the main evening news.
Following Pat Kenny's stepping down as host of The Late Late Show in 2009, RTÉ announced that Ryan Tubridy, host of his own Saturday night chat show, would be Kenny's replacement.Tubridy Tonight had aired since 2004 and had regularly drawn an audience of up to half a million since the first series. The departure of Tubridy to the Friday night slot left a gap in the schedule. In late 2009 RTÉ announced that it was to commission a new Saturday night entertainment show that would be fronted by "an established name or a combination of established names". Miriam O'Callaghan and Gerry Ryan, two broadcasters who lost out in the battle to succeed Kenny as host of The Late Late Show, were two names that were mentioned as possible hosts. It was hoped that the show would be "high energy", would "provide a distinctively Irish take on contemporary entertainment" and roposals for the show's format could include "chat, music, comedy, satire or some other element, such as audience participation, games, etc". It was reported by the Evening Herald that the programme would have a budget of €90,000 per programme. Newspaper reports in late 2009 revealed that the new chat show would be hosted by Sunday Independent journalist Brendan O'Connor and Lucy Kennedy, however, these reports were unfounded.
In a new departure RTÉ decided to pit two new chat shows against each other. Brendan O'Connor, who moved to RTÉ from The Apprentice: You're Fired! on TV3, would present The Saturday Night Show for an initial run of eight weeks before handing over to Craig Doyle who would present Tonight with Craig Doyle for a further eight weeks. Whichever chat show proved successful would be recommissioned for a further series.
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