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''The Six O'Clock Show'' is an Irish evening-time television show on
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(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 ''
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'' and ''
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'' returned to TV3.


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 ''
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'' and '' Late Lunch Live'' replaced ''The Morning Show''. ''Late Lunch Live'' premiered on 30 September 2013, airing every Monday to Friday from 14:00. 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. 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
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and
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, 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. The Friday evening edition was replaced by '' Xposé'' in March 2019. Following the cancellation of ''Xposé'', the show returned to its usual five nights a week from October 2019. As of late 2022, Karen Koster and
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acted as regular hosts from Monday to Thursday, with
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hosting the Friday edition alongside O'Shea. On 21 November 2023 it was announced that Brian Dowling and
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would be the new permanent hosts of the show replacing Karen Koster and
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.


Presenters

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* Brian Dowling *Fionnuala Jones (cover) *Zeinab Elguzouli (cover) * Darren Kennedy (cover) *Deric Hartigan (cover) *Louise Cantillon (cover) *Former presenters * Martin King (formerly Monday to Thursday) *
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(formerly Monday to Friday) * Karen Koster (formerly Monday to Thursday excluding summer and school holidays) *
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(formerly Friday/cover) * Ray Foley (formerly Friday/cover) * Muireann O'Connell (formerly Monday to Friday) * Lucy Kennedy (formerly Monday to Thursday) * Mairead Farrell (formerly on Friday's edition) * Louise Duffy (formerly on Friday's edition) * Anton Savage (formerly on Friday's edition) * Deirdre O'Kane (during Kennedy's maternity leave) *
Samantha Mumba Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba (born 18 January 1983) is an Irish R&B singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, fashion model and TV presenter. In 2000, at the age of 17, she shot to fame with the release of her debut single " Gotta Tell You", w ...
(during Kennedy's maternity leave) *
Una Healy Una Theresa Imogene Healy (born 10 October 1981) is an Irish singer. She rose to fame in 2008 as a member of five-piece girl group The Saturdays, who are signed to Fascination and Polydor Records. The group later gained another record deal wi ...
(Friday and cover) * Kamal Ibrahim (Friday and cover)


Special contributors

* Conor Pope – Budgeting and Consumer Affairs *Fionnuala Jones – Showbiz *Zeinab Elguzouli - Showbiz/TV *Éanna Ní Lamhna – Nature *Fionnuala Moran - Climate *Padraig Walsh - Psychologist *Leisha McGrath - Psychologist *Sarina Bellissimo - TV *Adrian Martin – Chef *Aisling Larkin – Chef *Kwanghi Chan – Chef *Gareth Mullins – Chef *Eoin Sheehan - Chef *Louise Lennox - Chef *Neil Mulholland - Chef *Erica Drum - Chef *Sham Hanifa - Chef *Conor Spacey - Chef *Maria Harte - Chef *Mindi Keane - Chef Former contributors *David Atkinson – Online Reporter *Anna Geary – Sport *Eoghan Doherty – Regional Reporter *Ciara King – Events Reporter *Paddy Smyth - TV *Andy O’Donoghue – Tech Guru *Derry Clarke – Chef *Kevin Dundon – Chef *Orla McAndrew - Chef * David and Stephen Flynn (The Happy Pear) – Chef *Yvonne Connolly – Chef *Russell Alford & Patrick Hanlon (GastroGays) – Chef *Darina Coffey – Chef *Graham Herterich (The Cupcake Bloke) – Chef *Gary O'Hanlon – Chef


On-air identity

File:The Six O'Clock Show Logo TV3.jpg, Previous Logo


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:6 OClock Show, The 1999 Irish television series debuts 2000s Irish television series 2010s Irish television series Irish television talk shows Virgin Media Television (Ireland) original programming