Gay Byrne hosted the show from its inception until. Three external broadcasts have aired, including from the Wexford Opera House on 5 September 2008 and, most recently, from London in 2018. In 1995, The Late Late Show transferred to the more spacious Studio 4, adapted specifically to cater for this and Kenny Live. įor much of its early life, RTÉ Television Centre's Studio 1 at Montrose in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, was its home this original studio accommodated a small audience of about 120. It averages 650,000 viewers per episode and has consistently achieved RTÉ's highest ratings. It has influenced attitudes of the populace towards approval or disapproval of its chosen topics, directed social change and helped shape Irish societal norms. The format has remained largely the same throughout-dialogue, comic sketches, musical performances, discourse on topical issues. Originating as temporary summer filler for a niche Saturday night audience (airing at 23.30), it later moved to its current home on Friday night schedules.
Having maintained the same name and format continuously, The Late Late Show was first broadcast on Friday, 6 July 1962 at 11:20pm and in colour from 1976. Certain segments are sometimes pre-recorded and aired within the live parts of the show. Perceived as the official flagship television programme of the Republic of Ireland's public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), it is regarded as an Irish television institution, and is broadcast live across more than two hours in front of a studio audience on Friday nights at 9:30pm between September and May.
It is the world's second longest-running late-night talk show, after the American The Tonight Show. The Late Late Show, with its title often shortened to The Late Late, is an Irish chat show.
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