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AFTER 350,000 PEOPLE watched TV3′s attempt to break RTÉ’s monopoly on Christmas present showcases, the broadcaster is having another go.
However, the station has decided not to put their show on the same night as RTÉ’s Late Late Toy Show, instead opting to go a week earlier.
They say that The TV3 Christmas Toy Show, which will be broadcast live from the RDS at 8pm on 21 November will be hosted by “a well-known celebrity face”.
They are also looking for kids to demonstrate the toys on the day.
Demonstrators must be aged between 5 and 12 and details as to how they should apply to take part in the TV3 Christmas Toy Show will be announced in the coming days. There will also be an opportunity for viewers to apply to be part of the live audience.
Victoria Quinn of TV3 said that the 90-minute show will be “bigger and better” than last year.
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For the love of god please not Alan Hughes!!!
Won’t somebody please think of the children
I’d say you’ve guessed it Alan Hughes god spare us anyone for more cheese
Brush Shiels. Or Sil Fox with the odd mother in law joke.
My mother is law is odd, he can joke about her
It will be Alan ‘showbiz’ Hughes… Ta Daaa!!!!
Lol, couldn’t agree more. Like so many on this awful station he is talentless. Amazed but sceptical so many watched their first attempt and for that matter this station is still going.
Oh the Dublin accent that comes out of him makes me want to stab my eardrums with a rusty ice pick.
Late late toy show used to be an integral part of Christmas in my house. Apart from being jealous of the kids on the show and resenting the bille Barry kids it was great. I dont know if TV3 will ever match it but at least the kids get two shows to look at and the parents get twice as much tormenting and it will start a week earlier too. :)
Its the ps santa I forgot to ask for…….
Two words for you ” Santa notebook” ! It’s merely a normal notebook covered in christmas paper and glitter with the child’s name on it . It arrives towards the end of November complete with packets of stars and black dots . The excitement if the kids finding them in the hall in the morning is totally unreal . Only don’t do it on a school morning as they will be extremely hyper lol. After that you have five or even six weeks of the best behaved kids in the world. Desperately trying to get stars in their notebook. The amount iof overall stars decides what Santa gives and of course the overall amount of black marks too. Try it ! It’s bliss lol I ended up having to make them for extended family and work mates for their kids. I could have gone into business at one point lol .
Thats a great idea! I defo think santa will be sending them out this year. My lot have a lot of sympathy for santa so they cut of the pictures of what they want and pritstick them to their letter just so there can be no confusion
That’s very clever and hilarious lol I will get my son to do that this year. Loves Santa but has an intellectual disability and can’t read or write . Thanks for the tip Sam! !
Catherine Sims, that’s genius! I think I’ll start mine now! (First mark will be a black one each for drawing on the (brand new) carpet last night with the contents of my makeup bag).
Thank you!
Omg Denise poor you. Mind you I had a goth teenager tramp up the stairs in her very muddy nurocks boots two hours after the carpet had been fitted so I feel your pain lol
Christ – the rip! You’d be fit to be tied sometimes.
Brings me back to a giant black drawn smiley face on cream carpet
Haha imagine it’s Vincent Browne “Tell me why does it work like this ?!”
I want the government to scrap Alan Hughes in next weeks budget.
Why is TV3 still a television channel? Why is it still relevant??
Was it ever relevant?
Wait a second, they’re taking on the Late Late Toy Show by NOT going head to head with it? How daring of them.
You can’t buy tradition
I suppose TV3′s toy show will be something along the lines of ‘Terror Toys – the games that Kill’, or ‘Prisoners Play – Bringing Joy to the Joy’.
I feel like they should hire you.
Wouldn’t mind it being Georgia salpa… She’d look alright in a Santa suit
No doubt it’ll be that talentless idiot Alan Hughes who’ll be presenting it… How does he get away with it?? It was cringeworthy last year.
Frankly, who gives a shit?
Sure what does it matter?
2 nights for the kids instead of one.
I’m sure they dont give a hoot who presents it or what station it is on as long as they have loads of goodies and dont have to go to bed early.
They’ll be taking on Love/Hate next year.
“Adore/Abhor” – Upperclass D4 crime lords with excellent vocabulary skills.
Begun the Toy Show Wars has…
Would rather see resources put on some fresh content for a change, Irish TV just seems to endlessly copy each other or the British with very few new ideas.
j. Get that dumb grin off your mush
I hope it’s Vincent Browne. grilling some young lad on a bike. “Step up to what plate?? What???”
Ah shite
I say fair play to tv 3 a little bit of competition never hurt anyone …A new fresh face would be nice as a presenter …… enjoy kids
My Big Fat Gypsy Toy Show
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