Tommy Tiernan to Launch 6-part TV Series

No stranger to television chat shows, Tommy Tiernan has performed and been a guest on some of the biggest and most established ones in the world. With a number of appearances at The Ed Sullivan Theatre for The David Letterman Show, Tiernan cut his chat show teeth on The Late, Late Show almost 20 years ago, with a performance that helped catapult his stand-up career. Since then he’s starred in sitcoms for Channel 4, fronted his own BBC and RTÉ series and hosted a number of radio series.

As a surprise element for the new show, neither the host nor the audience will know who the guests are until they walk out on stage. Speaking about this added challenge, Tiernan said: “One of the great things about the old Late Late Show was not knowing who the guests were until they appeared on screen, it kept the whole thing lively, so I just thought, well how would it be if the host didn’t know who they were until they walked out either. Doing it in front of a live audience is the key for me, it all seems like good unpredictable fun.”

The first episode of the series will run on January 5 at 10.15pm on RTE One.