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SHREK SONGS, A dancing Mickey, the Billie Barrys, a “p***ing” baby doll, Ryan Tubridy and around 200 children helped make The Late Late Toy Show the most watched show of the year to date.
The annual Christmas merriment took in an average of 1,319,000 Irish people and had a total reach of over 1.9 million. With so many Irish living abroad, the RTÉ Player received over 107,000 stream requests to date for the show, 47,000 of which were live simulcasts.
The theme of the show was loosely based on the movie Shrek and had a record number of children from all over the country, with over 200 taking part.
Here’s a blow-by-blow account of the night complete with plastic projectiles, balls on heads, “one for everyone in the audience” give-aways, Christmas jumpers and “Any craic?” “Níl”.
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Ryan entertained the kids and the show is for kids , and mine watched it many times over the weekend so well done all the team on the show
He sure did. And entertaining moments like: “Any craic? Nil.” always pop up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2kOA7brWgc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Yeah. Tubs put on a good show.
I Live in the UK and introduced both my kids to it this year courtesy of the RTE player app. The 5yr thinks its the best tv ever!
It’s once a year and self indulgent to watch but who cares. RTE is there to provide entertainment and if 1.3m watched it I think you can agree it entertained most of the nation.
I doubt whether all these knockers actually watched the show in any case.
Oh you’re wrong there mate. Judging by my twitter feed the tubs haters watch the late late show religiously every week, ranting about how terrible it is to have to watch this sh*te. Probably to be fair the other 189 channels on their cable channels are down every week – that’s my explanation anyhow.
The nation was brained washed to watch a clown with no talent floging over priced rubbish.
brained washed, you’re funny.
Hey, look, the cool kids who need to complain about everything. It’s a bit of fun an we all need that. Even you.
Haha I think this ^ post should be the default first post on every feel good story :)
love the show, loved the kids pity about the cardboard host with a personality deficit. Although he did seem to be on something on Friday.
@runadosty…comment of the week so far, could not agree more!
Bah, humbug, Denise!!
Why was Union J on the Late Late toy Show for? is that the best RTE can come up with? They are useless with no talent.
#Denise Friary,I agree with you the Irish are a bunch of brainwashed sheep ba ba ba and Union J was on because Louis Walsh ba ba ba ba.Lucky for me I never pay the RTE licence.
Rte operates purely as a conduit to enable friends/ colleagues/drinking buddies to get airtime to promote their latest book/band/pantomime. Most of the time they get paid as well!
I thought it was a pretty poor show to be honest…. the production value was cheap compared to previous years. The camera work was amateurish at best…. they were zoomed it on a toy for example and stayed zoomed in at the part that wasn’t being demonstrated at the time, e.g. the apartment toys segment with the car ramp thing… Poor, poor, poor….
Cinematography was awful also….
What is wrong with all of you. It was what it set out to be. A bit of light hearted fun. I actually think Ryan was brilliant on it. There were quite a few double entendres to amuse the adults but he interacted really well with the kids n overall enjoyable. Half the losers on here appear on almost every single article and have some negative bullshit to contribute. I’m sure you guys sky+’d it just so you could pick holes in it and whine. Get a frickin life people. Jeez!!!
Ahh here leave it out, its the toy show….I.e for the kids! even us big ones :-)
They should put it on earlier if it is for kids and get someone who doesn’t look like he’s auditioning for a creepy uncle contest to present it.
A bit like Tubridy on 2FM, Liveline and Mooney on RTE1, and Marty Whelan on LyricFM, it all comes across as a bit odd by anyone’s standards.
But that’s RTE for ya. Twink should be Director General.
Not Twink
Tubridy is overpaid and rte wont admit that they have a dud on their hands. If a donkey ( or should I say some other donkey) was presenting the toy show it would get viewers.
Viewers tune in because kids want to see it. Has nothing to do with Tubridy other than show where his abilities lie. I.E. hosting a kids programme and being paid about €20,000 per year.
An adult seriously critiquing the toyshow is a bit like the pope reviewing condoms.
While us people with teenage kids are well aware of how little we know about anything on this subject, pity the poor young adults on here who, in their delusion, still believe they’re views are in any way valid. :0)
oops – their views
not much too be proud of rte
RTE cuts were really clear on the show!
My kids liked it, I thought he was dreadful, juggling dangerously between entertaining a mixed audience and insulting children…my kids felt sorry for some of them.
Jaysus lads, but we do love a moan!! It’s the Toy Show for f#%k sake!
I enjoyed it. Sue me. Tubs has a good way with the kids and they all seemed thrilled to be there.
As soon as I saw that wee fella with the flat cap and blue glasses I knew we were on to a winner. A thousand new memes were born on Friday.
well said olwyn. always someone there to put a downer on things and looking for perfection . also anyone know where I can get the list of the toys shown? the link on the rte page is broken, wont load any time I click on it.
I kinda enjoyed it, thought RT was all too frantic, the format has potential
The most watched “show”, what programme had the highest audience? the toy show was in third place behind….
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