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Behold: a taste of the recently announced €250 million plan to turn the world-famous 1.9km long Champs-Éysées into an ‘extraordinary garden’.

The revamp is scheduled to begin after the 2024 Summer Olympics, halving traffic, creating tunnels of trees and vastly improving the current Périphérique levels of pollution. Designer PCA-stream sez:

…the étoile intersection is reinvented as a public plaza geared towards tourists and Parisians who come to contemplate the Arc de Triomphe. on the avenue, the promenade experience makes a comeback and flâneurs will be able to stroll up and down the historic boulevard in an atmosphere greatly improved by the reduction in motor traffic.

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Ryan Tubridy, on The Late Late Show

Further to an article in yesterday’s Irish Mail on Sunday in which it was reported that an unnamed source claimed The Late Late Show is in “need of a revamp” on foot of poor figures for the most recent season…

RTÉ has released the following statement…

RTÉ One categorically rejects any suggestion that The Late Late Show is in need of a revamp.

RTÉ One channel controller Adrian Lynch said: “This has been an extremely successful year for The Late Late Show. It has bucked wider television trends to increase its audience share, maintaining its position as Ireland’s biggest TV show.

“Any suggestion that the show is in need of a revamp is ridiculous. This is a programme that continues to draw the biggest weekly audiences on Irish television and regularly provides the talking point of the weekend for people around the country. We are very happy with how the show has performed over the last year. Any broadcaster would be delighted to have a show like The Late Late Show as their flagship programme, consistently delivering week on week”.

The consolidated* average audience for the 2015/16 series of The Late Late Show was 583,300 and the average share** of the available audience was 42.1 per cent. This compares to a consolidated average of 599,900 for the 2014/15 series and a share of 41.6 per cent.

While there has been a extremely modest drop in terms of the thousands watching, The Late Late Show confounded industry trends this year and actually increased its share of the available audience watching television at the time.

Adrian Lynch said: “The Late Late Show is a winning formula that viewers continue to embrace wholeheartedly, as clearly demonstrated by the fact that this year the show has increased its share of the available audience. This is a significant feat at a time when viewers can choose from more television channels than ever before and one that the Late Late team should be very proud of”.

Viewers are also watching the show on a wider variety of platforms including RTÉ One +1, RTÉ Player and On Demand.

There was an increase in the average number of people watching the show on RTÉ One + 1 this year (up to 17,100 Live+VOSDAL*** in 2015/16 from 13,000 in 2014/15).

The show is also doing exceptionally well on RTÉ Player with total streams of 1,735,700 for this season, a 9 per cent increase in streams on the previous season (Sept 2014 – May 2015).

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Ratings Source: TAM Ireland Ltd / Nielsen TAM

*Average consolidated audience – consolidated data incorporates VCR, DVDR and PVR playback viewing that took place within 7 days of the original broadcast. This time-shifted viewing is added to the live data to produce consolidated viewing data. Consolidated data is available eight days after the original transmission date. This data is the ‘TAM Gold Standard’ used by the industry to report and trade on.

**Share – The percentage of the total audience watching television at the time

***Live+VOSDAL – Live + Viewed On Same Day As Live – average reflects the average number of viewers across a programme or series, expressed in 000s. TV viewing is measured minute-by-minute, so the average audience is the average across all of these minutes

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[Screengrabs from tonight’s Six One News on RTÉ, showing the new design of the opening credit sequence. Tonight’s news was presented by Úna O’Hagan and sports presenter Evanne Ní Chuilinn, above]

The Irish Times reports:

“The refresh, which cost RTÉ about €25,000, also includes a reworking of composer Ronan Hardiman’s title music, which will become a little less thunderous and more upbeat. The bad news for sports presenters is that they will be standing up during midweek bulletins, not just on weekends. And one formality has been dispensed with altogether. The Six-One bulletin will no longer feature a booming voice-over man declaring “it’s Six-One, RTÉ News with . . .” as the camera pans the studio. “The ‘voice of God’, as we call it, is going,” said Hilary McGouran, managing editor of RTÉ television news.”

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