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PAT KENNY’S CHAT show on UTV Ireland has been given the axe after just one season.
Pat Kenny In The Round ran for five episodes beginning in May but it’s failed to capture a big enough audience to get a second run.
The show’s audience averaged 150,000 for the first episode with Tyrone football manager Mickey Harte before dropping to 66,000 with astronaut Chris Hadfield. The fifth and final episode of the show with Daniel O’Donnell and his wife Majella garnered an audience of 168,000 viewers.
The station is understood to be considering how best they can use Kenny in the build up to the general election.
“UTV Ireland has decided not to go ahead with a second series of In The Round this autumn,” the broadcaster said in a statement.
“We are delighted to have worked with Coco Television and we would like to thank them for their hard work and commitment to UTV Ireland this year. We look forward to engaging with them in the future on new projects.”
The show’s format saw the veteran broadcaster interviewing a guest each week for an hour on front of a studio audience in Dublin’s Mansion House.
The show wasn’t broadcast live but was pre-recorded, a decision Kenny himself is believed to have been unhappy with.
The first episode of the show saw Kenny speaking to Tyrone football manager Mickey Harte and concluded with an interview with Daniel O’Donnell and his wife Majella.
The confirmation that the show isn’t being renewed by UTV Ireland comes just two weeks after its makers Coco Television advertised for audience members for the second season.
UTV Ireland announced last year that Kenny was joining the station and although many expected that he would be doing so to present a news programme, this wasn’t the case.
In its statement about the show, UTV Ireland confirmed that Kenny is not leaving the station and that they are “currently discussing future projects” with him.
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Why are countries always so enamoured with words dead people wrote for a constitution?
We (rightfully) laugh at the USA when they point to their constitution as a reason for increasing guns and yet people like Bruton believe that in the year 2013 we should be bound to words that DeValera wrote in 1937. The same DeValera who handed us over to Rome and the horrors that came with that.
We should tear up the constitution every 50 years, the world moves too fast to be influenced by laws made for grandparents
Agreed. The constitution is the servant of the people. Not the other way round.
I absolutely agree, but the constitution is still the legal foundation in the state. If we want to bring in legislation that conflicts with the constitution, we have to change the legislation or change the constitution. We can’t just ignore it.
It seems to me like Bruton is right, that there is a conflict with the X-case legislation. That doesn’t mean we have to drop it, it just means there’s an extra step involved in introducing it. Otherwise there’ll be endless problems and legal challenges. Better to make it clear and bulletproof now than hurl ourselves headlong into poorly considered, reactionary policy.
Why does the Journal and all other Irish media refuse to cover the development of a new Icelandic constitution. Why is there a media blackout of such important social and cultural developments that would have huge implications here.Read this article, it contains real factual solutions to our debt problem http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/01/1001662/-Iceland-s-On-going-Revolution
Any news on Lisa and Barry??
Isn’t that the second time a Coronation Street actor has been charger with child rape?
Jim Buckley he has been re arrested on the rape charges that they said a year ago that they didnt have enough evidence to charge him with!!
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