Saturday Night with Miriam

Saturday Night with Miriam
Genre	Chat Show
Presented by	Miriam O'Callaghan
Country of origin	Ireland
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	11
Production
Executive producer(s)	Larry Masterson
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	RTÉ One
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	9 July 2005 – Present
Website

Saturday Night with Miriam is a televised talk show first broadcast on RTÉ One in the summer of 2005. The show runs for six weeks as a summer filler, and is overseen by Miriam O'Callaghan, a co-presenter of Prime Time.

Format

Saturday Night with Miriam, airs during summer months on RTÉ One when programmes such as The Late Late Show and the former Saturday night talk show Tubridy Tonight are off air. The show has a wide variety of guests, often including musicians, who usually perform on the show. The Duckworth Lewis Method made their television debut on Saturday Night with Miriam in 2009's season opener.^[1]

History

The first two series were pre-recorded show was broadcast on Saturday nights after the main evening news, lasting approximately 60 minutes. In the 2007 series, the programme began to broadcast live.^[2]

The show's first guests included Charlie McCreevy, Paul Brady, D. J. Carey and Ray D'Arcy.^[3] The programme received thirty-six percent of the adult audience.^[4]

The series was also run in summer 2006 and a third series ran in 2007.

The fourth series in 2008 was very popular and achieved a forty percent audience .^[5][6] People such as Mary Coughlan, Enda Kenny, Cherie Blair and Jade Goody appeared on the series.^[7]

In 2009, the series returned for a fifth series,^[8] with RTÉ making the announcement on 4 June 2009.^[9] This happened after it was announced that she would not be the new host of The Late Late Show.^[10] O'Callaghan also got her first radio programme, filling in for Eamon Dunphy on Miriam Meets....^[11] Newly elected politician George Lee was one of the first guests of the fifth series.^[12] The final episode of the fifth series received 422,000 viewers, a 35% audience share.^[13]

O'Callaghan confirmed that the series would return in 2013.^[14]

The show returned in the summer of 2014 for another series, running from Saturday 5 July until Saturday 23 August 2014 on RTÉ One.^[15][16] The 2014 season was pre-recorded on Fridays.^[17]

The show returned in the summer of 2015 for another series commencing Saturday 20 June 2015 and will run until Saturday 8 August 2015 on RTÉ One.^[15][18][19]

Guests

Series 3

Date	Guests	Link
16 June 2007	Andrea Corr, Bertie Ahern, Bernard Dunne, Kristina Grimes	[20]
23 June 2007	Samantha Mumba, Jack O'Connor, Keith Barry, Louis Walsh	[21]
30 June 2007	Al Green, Gerry Conlon & Paddy Hill, Kellie Shirley, Jason Byrne & Pamela Flood, Brendan O'Carroll	[22]
7 July 2007	Blathnaid McKenna & Sarah Morrissey, Mario Rosenstock, Marguerite Bouniol, Marie-Marguerite Opalka & Ralph Riegel, Packie Bonner & Ray Houghton	[23]
14 July 2007	Amanda Brunker, Brendan O'Connor, Dáithí Ó Sé & Brian Ormonde, Nadine Coyle, Mary Robinson	[24]
21 July 2007	Shayne Ward, Boy George & Dinah O'Dowd, Ronnie Drew	[25]
28 July 2007	Linda Martin, Diarmuid Gavin, Paddy Power, Tracy Pigott, Gráinne Seoige & Barry Geraghty, Pádraig Harrington	[26]
4 August 2007	Craig Doyle, Kathryn Feeney, Luzveminda O'Sullivan & Sheila O'Hanrahan Lawlor, Sinéad O'Connor, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh & Jimmy Magee	[27]

Series 4

The 2008 series got an average viewing audience of 425,000.^[28]

Date	Guests	Link
7 June 2008	Mary Coughlan, Kevin Hiller, Alan Gray, Brian McDermott & Ben Cunningham, Jessie Buckley, Louis Walsh & Brendan O'Connor, Red Hurley	[29]
14 June 2008	Jack Charlton & John Aldridge, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, Victoria Smurfit, George Lee, Eddie Hobbs & David McWilliams	[30]
21 June 2008	Boyzone, Jade Goody, Terry O'Quinn, Gerald Kean, Bazil Ashmawy & Ivan Yates	[31]
28 June 2008	Peter Kelly, Phil Coulter & Geraldine Branagan, Bill O'Herlihy, Liam Brady, Johnny Giles & Eamonn Dunphy, Robert O'Neill	[32]
5 July 2008	Enda Kenny, Sonia O'Sullivan, Darren Sutherland & Eileen O'Keeffe, Cherie Blair	[33]
12 July 2008	Bibi Baskin, Jennifer Maguire & Evelyn Cusack, Johnny Murtagh & Orla Murtagh, Larry Gogan, Lawrence McKeown, Mary Doyle & Raymond McCartney	[34]
19 July 2008	Anne Doyle, Curtis Stigers, Walter Swift, John Waters, Moya Brennan	[35]

Series 5

Date	Guests	Link
20 June 2009	George Lee, Marti Pellow, Amanda Brunker, Claudia Carroll & Marisa Mackle, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Tim O'Rourke & Michael O'Brien	[36]
27 June 2009	Monica Leech, Keith Duffy & Rasher, Michelle Heaton, The Gandhis, Michael and Bernadette Jacobs, Valerie Cox	[37]
4 July 2009	Amy Huberman, Duke Special, Ardal O'Hanlon, Honor Blackman, Brian Crowley	[38]
11 July 2009	Hilda Fay, Clelia Murphy & Ciara O'Callaghan, La Troupe de Mademoiselle Clairette, John Spillane, Steve Collins & Paul Williams, Sophie Ellis-Bextor	[39]
18 July 2009	Pat Shortt, Maxi, Patrick Collison, Wallis Bird, Pat Spillane, Fiona Looney & Marty Morrissey, Kevin Doyle	[40]
25 July 2009	Joe Duffy, Brush Shiels, Bob Carley, Doc Savage & Clint Velour, Lucy Kennedy, Barry McGuigan, Seán Gallagher, Alan Shortt & Jack Sheedy, The High Kings, Ray D'Arcy, Dáithí Ó Sé & Current and Past Roses of Tralee	[41]

References

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10. "Miriam O'Callaghan: It's different for girls". Irish Independent. 2009-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
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13. "Miriam's final show pulls in 422k viewers". Evening Herald. 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
14. "'I'm not 50 just yet, but who cares anyway?'". Evening Herald. 10 February 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
15. http://www.rte.ie/tv/miriam/
16. https://twitter.com/SaturdayMiriam/with_replies
17. http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-features/miriam-ocallaghan-on-husband-steve-carson-hes-part-of-my-dna-30380910.html
18. http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2015/0619/709193-interview-saturday-night-with-miriam-returns/
19. https://www.facebook.com/SaturdayNightWithMiriamRTE
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31. "June 21, 2008". RTÉ. 21 June 2008. Archived from the original on 6 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
32. "June 28, 2008". RTÉ. 28 June 2008. Archived from the original on January 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
33. "July 5, 2008". RTÉ. 5 July 2008. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
34. "July 17, 2008". RTÉ. 17 July 2008. Archived from the original on 13 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
35. "July 19, 2008". RTÉ. 19 July 2008. Archived from the original on 2 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
36. "20 June 2009". RTÉ. 20 June 2009. Archived from the original on 8 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
37. "27 June 2009". RTÉ. 27 June 2009. Archived from the original on 8 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
38. "July 4, 2009". RTÉ. 4 July 2009. Archived from the original on 8 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
39. "July 11, 2009". RTÉ. 11 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 August 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
40. "July 18, 2009". RTÉ. 18 July 2009. Archived from the original on 1 August 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
41. "July 25, 2009". RTÉ. 25 July 2009. Archived from the original on 4 August 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-29.

External links

• Miriam at RTÉ Television
• Saturday Night With Miriam at the Internet Movie Database