Tonight with Craig Doyle

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Tonight with Craig Doyle
Multi-camera
Production companyWaddell Media
Original release
NetworkRTÉ One
Release10 April (2010-04-10) –
29 May 2010 (2010-05-29)
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Tonight with Craig Doyle is a talk show hosted by Craig Doyle that was broadcast on RTÉ One for one series in 2010. The show featured guest interviews, audience participation and live music. Tonight with Craig Doyle was broadcast every Saturday night during the spring season directly after the main evening news.[1]

History

Replacing Tubridy Tonight

Following

Evening Herald that the programme would have a budget of €90,000 per programme while the set for the show cost €100,000, despite being only for an eight-week show and tough company budget cuts.[3]

In a new departure, RTÉ decided to pit two new chat shows against each other.

TV3, would present The Saturday Night Show for an initial run of eight weeks before handing over to Doyle who would present Tonight with Craig Doyle for a further eight weeks.[4] Whichever chat show proved successful would be recommissioned for a further series. Doyle was known to have secured the role even before The Saturday Night Show had aired and wanted the Saturday programme to "complement" the more serious Friday night chat show by being entertaining.[5]

Debut

Tonight with Craig Doyle made its debut on 10 April 2010 for an initial run of eight programmes. The guests for the first programme were La Toya Jackson, Louis Walsh and actress Victoria Smurfit. Kate Nash was the musical guest, and Jarlath Regan provided stand-up comedy.

Ending

Following the completion of both The Saturday Night Show and Tonight with Craig Doyle, it was decided to recommission the former for a second series. It proved more popular with the audience than Doyle's show which was panned by the critics and regarded as a flop. Sinead Ryan of the

The Social
, a midweek nighttime show on RTÉ Two.

Production

Tonight with Craig Doyle was broadcast from Studio 4 in the RTÉ Television Centre at Donnybrook, Dublin 4. That studio is also home to the shows Friday night rival The Late Late Show. As RTÉ's biggest the studio holds 200 audience members. The programme was pre-recorded on the Wednesday before the broadcast. This was primarily because Doyle had other presenting work to do on ITV Sport.

References

  1. ^ Sweeney, Ken (5 April 2010). "Doyle feeling rosy about new chat show". Irish Independent. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  2. ^ Emily Hourican (17 January 2010). "Born to be thrown into things". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  3. Evening Herald. Archived from the original
    on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Tonight with Craig Doyle". RTÉ Television. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
  5. The Sunday Tribune. 20 December 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2010.[permanent dead link
    ]
  6. Evening Herald
    . 8 April 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
Preceded by Saturday night programming
on Telefís Éireann
(versus The Saturday Night Show)
2010 		Succeeded by
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