{"id":430583,"date":"2026-04-11T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/430583\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:26:16","slug":"the-online-threat-to-the-late-late-show-on-rte-and-tvs-chat-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/430583\/","title":{"rendered":"The online threat to The Late Late Show on RT\u00c9 and TV\u2019s chat shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom \u2018Hot Ones\u2019 to \u2018Chicken Shop Date\u2019 and other online offerings, \u2018The Late Late Show\u2019 and its peers are facing unprecedented competition. Kirsty Blake Knox and Melanie Finn find out if the format\u2019s days are numbered\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775903176_496_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">All talked out: The online threat to the \u2018Late Late\u2019 and TV\u2019s chat shows<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty Blake Knox and Melanie Finn<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In recent weeks, much has been written about Patrick Kielty and how long his tenure on The Late Late Show will last. And focus has shifted to the unique place the programme, the longest-running live chat show in the world, has in Irish society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a Sunday Independent\/Ireland Thinks poll last week, 38pc were in favour of the show being scrapped, while 57pc voted that the best presenter was the late Gay Byrne. It\u2019s a little surprising, given that he did not host the show this century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From \u2018Hot Ones\u2019 to \u2018Chicken Shop Date\u2019 and other online offerings, \u2018The Late Late Show\u2019 and its peers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,2119,57978,3409,2519,1181,30168,128],"class_list":["post-430583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsty-blake-knox","tag-melanie-finn","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-review-magazine","tag-rte","tag-the-late-late-show","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116385597586433042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}