Tubridy Tonight
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Logo used by Tubridy Tonight towards the end of its run
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| Genre | Light entertainment |
| Created by | Kathy Fox |
| Directed by | Niamh White |
| Presented by | Ryan Tubridy |
| Starring | Clint Velour and the Camembert Quartet |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 156 |
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| Executive producer(s) | John O'Regan |
| Producer(s) | James Cotter |
| Location(s) | Studio 4, RTÉ Television Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland |
| Running time | 65–80 mins |
| Distributor | RTÉ |
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| Original network | RTÉ One |
| Original release | 16 October 2004 – 30 May 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Saturday Live (1999) |
| Followed by | The Saturday Night Show (2009–present) |
| Related shows | The Late Late Show (1962–present) |
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Tubridy Tonight is a talk show hosted by Ryan Tubridy that aired on RTÉ One for five seasons between 2004 and 2009. The programme featured guest interviews (usually three per show), audience participation and live music from both a guest music group and the house band. Tubridy Tonight aired every Saturday night, except during the summer months, directly after the main evening news. The show's house musical act was Clint Velour and the Camembert Quartet.
Tubridy Tonight was the first successful Saturday night chat show to be broadcast by RTÉ since the ending of Kenny Live in 1999. The programme had regular viewing figures of 450,000, however, the show also regularly fell victim to so-called "Saturday Night Syndrome", with The Late Late Show, broadcast on Friday nights, frequently featuring supposedly better guests. In 2009 Tubridy Tonight came to an end when RTÉ announced that Tubridy would succeed Pat Kenny as host of The Late Late Show for the following series, with the presenter describing Tubridy Tonight as "quite the odyssey".
Upon Gay Byrne's retirement from The Late Late Show in 1999, RTÉ announced that Pat Kenny, host of his own Saturday night chat show, would be Byrne's replacement. Kenny Live had aired since 1988 and had been a staple of the RTÉ schedule since the first series. The departure of Pat Kenny to the Friday night slot left a gap in the schedule. Saturday Live, a programme that had originally aired in the late 1980s and featured a different host every week, was revived as a replacement. The second coming of the show proved unpopular and was ended after only one series. Following the axing of Saturday Live RTÉ declined to produce a Saturday night chat show, instead favouring to show a film after the main evening news. On 9 May 2004, RTÉ announced that Ryan Tubridy would host a new Saturday night chat show that coming autumn.
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