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IF YOU’VE EVER fancied yourself as a panellist on Tonight With Vincent Browne, you may just get your wish.
VinB is back on Monday and a change to the show’s format means that members of the the public will be able to rock up to the TV3 studio in Ballymount and go on live.
The plan is that the people will be able to go on the panel with politicians to talk about the issues that affect them.
The change is not a replacement for The People’s Debate with Vincent Browne, which returns next week as well, but is just a way of freshening things up.
“We needed to change it and we thought this was a better idea,” Browne told TheJournal.ie at yesterday’s TV3 autumn launch.
He said they were originally hoping to make the show longer so that people could drive out in the middle of this show and go on, but that’s not happening for now.
“Even when people are sitting at home that they could go, ‘fuck sake’, and get into their cars and come out, but that could only be if we got more time. It’s the sort of thing that will make it much more accessible for ordinary people and not just the ordinary suspects that go on all the these programmes.”
The People’s Debate with Vincent Browne has already gone to 20 constituencies around the country and the show’s producers are planning to reach them all of them before the general election.
Dublin Bay North is the focus this coming Monday in Clontarf Castle.
This latest change to the nightly show is about building on what’s been done with The People’s Debate.
“That’s an important part of what we’re about in the media. That the agenda shouldn’t just be set by a few people who are usually of the same mind,” he says.
“It should be open and there should be a lot of other people who talk and we should give them a platform speak.”
TV3′s director of content Lynda McQuaid joined the station in earlier this year and says she’s fully behind the new idea.
She explains that working within tight budgets shouldn’t stop broadcasters from trying new things, the station’s referendum coverage for example.
“What really excited me, I had literally only just started, was just The George and Vincent in The George.”
“That just felt to me that we were saying, we’re not going to be shackled by the fact that we don’t have those budgets. We’re going to look for devices and modes and means with which we can do our current affairs that works for us.”
“By opening the door and saying, if you’ve got a grievance, an issue that you want to air, what better way to do it than to come out to Ballymount and come on the show.”
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If collectively an enterprise lacks commercial merit it tends to go out of business.
The curse of the private sector.
Will virgin give us utv back.
Bad very bad ,crap station
“We are still proud of what we managed to do.”
No offence, but you did nothing.
No different to any other redundancy situation or merger. Thousands have experienced this, suck it up.
People at UTV thought us Irish were silly little creatures who would swallow up their sad excuse of TV did they think we were stupid
Calling it UTV Ireland was the first joke decision – a station that showed 95% British content – most of which was chav sh*te.
Terrible comments by some, kicking people when they are down, best of luck in the future whoever lost a job
Anyone who thought UTV Ireland would produce a Channel 4 News style show was either a bit deluded or had never viewed UTV news. One is a proper news show the other is largely about sick kids/puppies that are being ‘brave, rugby and sucking up to old soldiers and the British monarch. Hardly the stuff an ambitious young hack should aspire to
The announcer between programs said “UTV island”…. Couldn’t even say Ireland! That’s bugged me from the beginning!
@Ciara McCorley: Perhaps it was intentional? Ulster (Television!) says yes?
@Ciara McCorley:
Yea Peter Robinson of the DUP also seemed to find it difficult to say Ireland.
““This was a brand new employer with a brand new national news service, so it presented a great opportunity for young journalists who were coming up the ranks. To be part of a team that launches something new, there’s a buzz that you just don’t get in another job.”
Yeah that’s why they then hired Pat Kenny! The dogs on the street knew this was going to fail the minute it was announced.
Rubbish station, showed repeatit UTV, ITV. Don’t think new channel 3Be, be any better.
Tallaght T V expanding
Will poor Pat Kenny still have a job or will he have to go back to RTE with his tail between his legs!!! Never do for pat to be outta a job!
@Veroníca: Another half wit who doesn’t bother reading the article before coming out with hateful, half witted nonsense.
And 29 people at this age agreeing too
*stage
@Veroníca: “Poor” Pat Kenny? Who works for both TV3 and Newstalk? Somehow, I think he’ll be okay.
@Niall O’Keeffe: Turn on your sarcasm detector, dumbass.
Why are people knocking PK for working? Plenty people contribute nothing.
I have no doubt he will Niall! He can always retire on his healthy savings!
More repeats by a crap station. Won’t be watching
Good because it will be difficult to watch from next week
Maybe if UTV Ireland had scheduled programmes that people actually wanted to watch, if might have succeeded, after all they had access to the entire ITV network, it`s as if they didn`t want to succeed, bizzare, go figure.
@Patrick James Walsh: They actually hadn’t access to the entire ITV network though. Both ITV the company and ITV the network had anything to do with UTV Ireland bar licencing some TV shows to them.
They had access to content from ITV Studios. That’s how they had the Graham Norton Show.
@Max Johnson Powers: No, they had access to show some programmes. That was negotiated between them and the programmes owners.
Ducking shite station with shite presenters
Good riddance to it ! Total failure to deliver ! Also an insult to the deaf community with no subtitles available on prime time shows like Midsummer murders ! Should not even have been allowed to broadcast. Paid no attention to complaints and were virtually uncontactable. And you don’t have to ask the football lovers what they thought of the disappearance of the international soccer matches that they would have seen on the UTV as we had it before. Say nothing about the reappearance of ” The Plank” aka Pat Kenny ! On yer bike … and quick about it ! .
One island – two UTVs – was destined to fail. Bring back UTV from Belfast.
Sorry to say, but as a viewer utv Ireland was crap, they tried to pull the wool over viewers eyes with so called new shows that we’re constantly repeats even playing Lorraine twice in a day I’m mean seriously just give us back utv and stop all the nonsense
All that money wasted.We were happy with UTV in the first place.
Oh no.
Lost foot football and rugby so this UTV can go and f&ck off. I never bothered to even see what was on cause I knew they only show absolute crap. Great tat its gone…
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