Tubridy Tonight (season 5) Tubridy Tonight (season 5) The fifth and final season of "Tubridy Tonight" commenced airing on 27 September 2008 and completed broadcasting on 30 May 2009. The series, hosted by Ryan Tubridy, aired on RTÉ One on Saturdays nights following the . At the end of this series, Tubridy took over from Pat Kenny as host of "The Late Late Show" on Friday nights on the same channel. Musical guests throughout the series included Fall Out Boy, The Saturdays, Sugababes, Gabriella Cilmi, Take That, The Script, Lady GaGa, Petula Clark, Bell X1, The Blizzards, Dolores O'Riordan, Boyzone, Melody Gardot and Spandau
The Tubridy Show concerts that had taken place that weekend in Croke Park. The programme was a two-hour show for the summer months before becoming a one-hour show from the start of September. In 2006, the show's entire crew of producers and researchers were moved elsewhere. In August 2009, Tubridy expressed shock on the show when "Big Brother" housemate Noirin Kelly declared before an interview that she had never heard of Tommy Tiernan. In 2010, "The Tubridy Show" helped launch "Ireland's Greatest", though Tubridy was displeased at some of the contents—"There are some really silly names in there. It's contentious to say the