The Saturday Night Show The Saturday Night Show The Saturday Night Show is a talk show hosted by Brendan O'Connor broadcast on RTÉ One between 2010 and 2015. The show features guest interviews, audience participation and live music. "The Saturday Night Show" is broadcast every Saturday night during the autumn-spring season directly after "", the main evening news bulletin. Following Pat Kenny's stepping down as host of "The Late Late Show" in 2009, RTÉ announced that Ryan Tubridy, host of his own Saturday night chat show, would be Kenny's replacement. "Tubridy Tonight" had aired since 2004 and had regularly drawn an audience of up
The Tubridy Show music. In each programme there were three sections. The first would last around 20 minutes with a debate or high-profile guest. For the second and third there would typically be a panel and a music guest. Tubridy and his team concocted what they described as "an eclectic mix of items on a daily basis". Every month the Tubridy Show Book Club was run. It encouraged listeners to send their review on a featured book. The best review would be published in the "RTÉ Guide". The book club was influential in the Irish book market, with novels such as John Boyne's