The 6 O'Clock Show

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The 6 O'Clock Show
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Genre Chat Show
Presented by Katja Mia
Brian Dowling
Country of origin Ireland
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationsVirgin Media Television HD Studio,
Ballymount, Dublin
Original release
Network Virgin Media One
Release1 December 2016 (2016-12-01) –
present
Related
Ireland AM , Midday , Xposé , TV3 News The 7 O'Clock Show

The Six O'Clock Show is an Irish evening-time television show on Virgin Media One (formerly known as "TV3"). Broadcast live, the show provides chat, live music, cooking, entertainment, showbiz and technology updates. It replaced The 7 O'Clock Show as Emmerdale and Coronation Street returned to TV3. [1] [2]

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Background

The Six O'Clock Show first began as an early afternoon show live on TV3 then called Late Lunch Live. As part of the revamp of TV3's daytime schedule due to falling audience figures an extended version of Ireland AM and Late Lunch Live replaced The Morning Show. [3] Late Lunch Live premiered on 30 September 2013, airing every Monday to Friday from 14:00. [4] By 2014 the show was moved to a new timeslot of 15:30 to 16:30. The programme featured in-studio guests, live performances, updates on showbiz, TV, technology, events around the country and general chat with its daily guests.

On 30 January 2015 the TV3 Group confirmed Late Lunch Live would be replaced with The Seven O'Clock Show, which premiered on 16 February 2015. [5] Both presenters of Late Lunch Live joined the new show.

With the refresh and rebrand to The Seven O' Clock Show, Lucy Kennedy and Martin King presented the show four days a week with a rotation of presenters on Friday's edition. This includes Ray Foley and Mairead Farrell, or Lousie Duffy and Anton Savage.

Due to the return of Emmerdale and Coronation Street, the show was renamed The 6 O'Clock Show and was pushed back to 18:00. Muireann O'Connell and Martin King acted as the main hosts through 2021. [6]

The Friday evening edition was replaced by Xposé in March 2019,. [7] Following the cancellation of Xposé, the show returned to its usual five nights a week from October 2019. [8] As of late 2022, Karen Koster and Greg O'Shea acted as regular hosts from Monday to Thursday, with Gráinne Seoige hosting the Friday edition alongside O'Shea. On 21 November 2023 it was announced that Brian Dowling and Katja Mia would be the new permanent hosts of the show replacing Karen Koster and Greg O'Shea. [9]

Presenters

Special contributors


Former contributors

On-air identity

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References

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  2. ↑ "TV3 confirms return of Coronation Street and Emmerdale". Rte.ie. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Slattery, Laura (26 September 2013). "TV3 goes live with new daytime line-up". The Irish Times . Archived from the original on 26 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Photos from TV3's Autumn Launch". TV3.ie – Xposé Entertainment. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "'I've been bursting to tell everyone' – Lucy and Martin's 'Late Lunch Live' bumped up to 7pm". Independent.ie. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Melanie Finn (16 December 2016). "Revealed: Details of TV3 shake-up including the fate of Xpose, Midday and Ireland AM". Independent.ie. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Dodd, Eimear (6 February 2019). "Virgin Media's Xpose and Six O'Clock Show move slots in schedule change up". RSVP Live. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Xposé cancelled after 12 years on the air". RTÉ Entertainment. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Brian Dowling and Katja Mia announced as new hosts of Six O'Clock Show". Independent.ie. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
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