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THE MORNING SHOW on TV3 – which had been presented by Sybil Mulcahy and Martin King – has been axed in favour of a new afternoon show.
Curiously, Xposé – the celebrity gossip and style magazine show – does not appear on the new autumn TV3 schedule. One of those, Glenda Gilson, is at this launch and the Xposé logo has appeared on promotional material at the Ballymount venue this afternoon.
When contacted by TheJournal.ie about the omission of Xposé from the schedule, a TV3 spokesperson said: “Xposé as is. Exactly the same. Its fabulous self!”
The new schedule features a new show called ‘Late Lunch Live’, which is to be fronted by Martin King and Lucy Kennedy. Sybil Mulcahy will take a role in the Midday show. While Elaine Crowley continues presenting that show, Sybil will, according to TV3, “bring us the views of the nation from all across the country via live link”.
TV3′s early morning show – Ireland AM – stays in situ. It gets a new co-host in the form of PR man and broadcaster Anton Savage, who takes a seat on the couch alongside regulars Mark Cagney, Sinead Desmond, Alan Hughes, Aidan Cooney and Anna Daly.
The new afternoon show, Late Lunch Live, is described as a blend of “recipes, chat, previews and celebrity interviews” with a roving reporter, Clair Solan, recording outside broadcasts for show segments.
As well as Sybil Mulcahy’s addition to Midday, the show gets a new live studio audience to interact with the guest panellists. The Midday show will kick off at, er, 11.45am.
The daytime schedule was a source of speculation in the past month as information was leaked that some of the shows were at risk of getting the chop.
The leaks caused enough of a kerfuffle for staff at the station to receive a memo from new head of content Jeff Ford warning staff of disciplinary action if they breached confidentiality.
More to come on the new schedule from TV3.
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Spare us please
Jaysus Martin you have been dumped by TV3 so they can pay the Healy Rae’s, makes ya wonder….
When is TV3 getting axed?
yawn! …..not news!
How many different ways can TV3 name a Lunchtime show? Live Lunch Late?Late Lunch? The Lunchtime Show? The Live Lunch?
Or how about a Mid-day… Live Mid-Day?Mid-Day Live? Mid-Day Madness?
The lunch box.
With Glenda.
I’ll have to sit down in a darkened room, to calm my giddy excitement !
Ah no that’s after ruining lunch.
Won’t someone think of the Z Listers please?
Probably because that Expose programme is pure crap, thank god its fnishing!!!
Tv3 programming is horrendous
Could not agree more, what if any are the viewer figures for this cheap, nasty, tabloid excuse for a TV station, its appalling in every sense of the word.
“Xposé, it’s the news – for stupid people!”
I thought that was TV3 news!
TV3 News actually has some news, and covers issues that RTE news might ignore (such as the recent student’s suing Athlone IT as their course was cancelled).
FYI, on 3e, on the other hand…is the news for dumb people. Including ‘what’s the most popular video on youtube today’.
Five tw*ts plus Anton sitting around chatting absolute tripe during a 3-hour morning “holy-show”. Christ of almighty. BBC Breakfast have two anchors and good content.
IRELAND’s shAMe.
No doubt they will fill the gap with re-runs of “Ultimate 10 Worst Sausages” or “My Uncle is a Transgender Gypsie Midget (part 3)”.
cue the follow up special:
“Whey Gypsey Midgets Attack”
Nun my uncle was very brave allowing himself to be the subject of that documentary. It’s hard being a member of several minority groups all at once . Bit of respect please .
Sorry Catherine, but at lease the disguised his voice!
Stop giving them ideas for new shows!
All 6 viewers will be upset.
I think TV3 should be axed entirely, the most useless TV station. For all the crap that is on RTE at least it has Love/Hate, TV3 on the other hand has nothing of worth.
Liam,I think you’ve forgotten about the massive hit that was Deception…oh sorry,there was a reason for that wasnt there!
Your comment is ridiculous. You said tv3 should be scrapped because they have nothing of worth whereas rte has love/hate?? As much as I love love/hate myself it is only 8 hour long episodes. So what else do rte give for the rest of the year? Tv3 is independent, none of our tv licence money goes to funding them, all of it to rte to highly overpaid presenters who are very overrated. I’m not saying tv3 is brilliant but they do really good current affairs talk shows like midday and other documentary type shows which are so much better then anything rte pulls out of the bag.
TV3 get grants from the licence-fee funded Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound & Vision Fund so to say none of the television licence fee goes to them is wrong.
I actually like Midday but I think they overdo current affairs with Vincent Browne being on every night (and now on weekends as well with his Vincent Challenges God programme).
They also have an annoying habit of promoting a new series and then dropping it after a few episodes or endlessly repeating the same series over and over again.
Sybil Mulcahy has been shipped around numerous diff shows by TV3, can someone please explain to me how she continues to be employed by the station? Awful broadcaster, anchor, reporter or whatever guise she is currently claiming to be.. Has to be a nepotistic connection somewhere?
i still at a loss as to how glenda gilson got a job fronting any program on tv3
I agree, and her ’60-fags-a-day’ voice is just ear pain.
But I have to wonder….who the hell thought Lucy Kennedy was a good presenter? She’s awful, just awful.
Why hire her, when RTE saw sense and did not renew her contract?
Vacuous cráp
Thank god for small miracles
Thank god finally exposé has been ‘exposed’ (see what I did there?) for the rubbish it really is!
It’s not going anywhere Dave…
Susan, sometimes I post a rude comment to see how long thejournal.ie takes to remove it. Aoife, is very good at zapping me.
Ah, just let him enjoy the fantasy, at least for an hour…:)
Damn it… Wishful thinking on my behalf
I REALLY dislike Martin King immensely. He makes my skin crawl. Can they not find ANYONE else instead.
yeah he gives dubs a bad name with his jaysus howya accent
Half of TV3′s programmes are imported or ideas stolen from ITV
All of those shows are exactly the same, just at different times of the day.
yup and if you miss them on tv3 you get tortured with them on 3e
I could not have lived without this “news” ..thanks journal..**bows head in shame **
Bloody awful programme. Tv3 tabloid telly at its worst.
About time …. Boring shite
TV3 is pure muck. I.M.O! What’s their obsession with travellers?
The axis of evil that is TV3 and 3e must be stopped.
TV3 is south Dublin airhead FM. Anna Nicole Smith TV with sprinklings of Vincent Browne.
How bout “My Big Fat Gypsy Live Mid-Day Lunch” has a certain catchiness / continuity to it…..just saying
TV3 and their “shows”… They’re on par with the red top rags!!
TV3 is total rubbish. Its the TV version of the Daily Star.
She’s Susan Daly….. No man on earth would say that he don’t wanna.
Is it.
Midday is a terrible program. Panel consisting mostly of women who don’t seem to have a clue what life is like for most people in Ireland. All taking and having opinions and taking about things they know nothing about. You can say we all do that but we don’t get air time on a national tv channel to do it or get paid for it either. There was one who,e segment with them ridiculing people’s accents. That was anyone who did sound like them and their fake and sometimes real Dublin 4 accents. If I met them I may never stop trying to slap the ignorance out of them .
Alan queues dis dat tree !!!!
Oh no. My life is ruined.
Who cares ?
I’m delighted, but Paul Byrne might disagree.
That is a disgrace!
Was there not an article a few months ago quoting tv3 swearing blind this wouldn’t happen??? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care, but I love the way they just lie and hope we don’t notice!
TV3 is a very poor man’s effort of ITV. I wonder with the axeing of the morning show will result in martin and Sybil’s salary being reduced… I doubt it!
Please tell me they’re giving all the GAA coverage back to RTE… When will the snoozing during tv3 commentary end?
What is it with TV3 and “celebrity interviews” Who will these “celebrities ” be . . . My guess D listers such as actors from corrie and the like, some ” celebrity” Irish chef. . . TV3 is just a waste of a station
sad
Don’t care about anything that happens in RTE, for one thing, I never watch TV, but especially a Propaganda Network that only gives the Government Narrative! The Nazis would be proud of RTE, but the BBC is the world’s Greatest propaganda machine that tells the lies of Government and suppresses all the truths that could change the world if only it was allowed to be heard.
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