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The Late Late Toy Show is an annual, special edition of the Irish chat show The Late Late Show.Airing annually on RTÉ One near the end of November or early December to coincide with the holiday shopping season, the Toy Show showcases the popular toys of the year, as presented by the host and demonstrated by various children on-stage, along with appearances by celebrity guests.
Patrick Kielty with Louis Hanna (6), from Dublin, (right) and Tara Dowling (5), from Carlow, (left), at the unveiling of the theme and set for The Late Late Toy Show, at the RTE studios in Dublin.
Patrick Kielty has said presenting The Late Late Toy Show, which he described as the “Irish Thanksgiving”, is a “massive honour”. Kielty took over as The Late Late Show’s host in ...
On 17 August 2023, it was announced that the running time for each episode of The Late Late Show would be reduced from approximately two hours to 90 minutes, although each episode would still be split into four parts, with three commercial breaks. The Toy Show, however, retained the two-hour slot. The number of episodes per season was also ...
In Ireland, two relatively new annual Christmastime traditions are the Late Late Toy Show, which has aired since 1975, and the Christmas Day swim, which began some 40 years ago, according to the ...
In May 2023, it was confirmed the show would not return that year. [21] Documents became publicly available in the wake of the RTÉ secret payment scandal in July 2023 confirming that the losses from Toy Show The Musical reached €2.2 million. It cost over €3 million to produce and it had been expected to sell 75,000 tickets across 54 shows ...
The first time I described the Toy Show to my English partner, he thought I was having some kind of episode – but 20 minutes in, it clicked: its joy is that it’s so weird...
24 November – Patrick Kielty presents his first edition of The Late Late Toy Show on RTÉ One. It would go on to be the most watched TV programme of 2023 in Ireland with 1,575,800 people watching the show. [82] [83] [84] 28 November – Closure date for people to respond to the survey on RTÉ's plans announced on 14 November. [80]