[2] The programme airs every Monday and Tuesday at 22:50 on RTÉ Two from February to April and from October to December with a hiatus during the summer months.

The programme's popularity was reflected on the Irish Singles Chart, as The Saw Doctors reached number one on 17 October 2008 with the song "About You Now", first performed on The Podge and Rodge Show as a dare during the "Rock N' Roulette" feature of series three.

[6] While the pilot episode, An Audience with Podge and Rodge, was first broadcast on RTÉ on St Stephen's Day in 2005, the series did not begin in earnest until 6 February 2006.

Queen of the Land bottle-fed a lamb as Podge and Rodge made references to its imminent digestion by a hungry human.

The final was held on the Monday 18 December 2006 episode, judged by Rose of Tralee Kathryn Anne Feeney, as well as that evening's guests, Brendan Bowyer and Des Bishop.

Model Andrea Roche appeared on the show amidst media speculation on an interview she gave when she was competing in the Miss World competition in the Seychelles in 1997.

In reality Podge and Rodge and Lucy were left in the darkness of Ballydung Manor as the thunder raged outside, imagining their nightmare guests.

Other guest presenters up until Christmas 2008 included Mary McEvoy aka Biddy from Glenroe, Donna and Joseph McCaul, Rosanna Davison, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, Rebecca Loos, Caroline Morahan, Anna Nolan and Twink.

After their usual mid-season break, the show returned on 9 February for a further twenty episodes with a new Lady of Ballydung Manor, Caroline Morahan.

[9] Podge (or Rodge) opened the show with the announcement that "It's the same oul’ shite", before introducing Morahan with a number of quips such as: "She was Off the Rails and now she’s off the dole queue", "A fully nationalised, index approved ride", "Lady Caroline of the Manor" and "Ireland’s answer to Angelina Jolie.

"[10] The fourth season began on 20 October 2008 and ran until 14 April 2009, which turned out to be the final episode of the series as it was announced that a new format, Podge and Rodge's Stickit Inn,[11] a celebrity pub quiz would replace the chat show in the Autumn 2009 schedule.

The series was still filmed in the Stickit Inn pub set with a live audience and Johnny Dorgan the man with the organ remained as a recurring character.

Joining Podge and Rodge was "Sicilian barmaid Gina", played by real-life Chip-Shop Mafia Moll, Virginia Macari.

Resident music maestro at The Stickit Inn was showband has-been Johnny Dorgan, thrown out of The Indians in 1978 for pissing in their Wig Wam.

On 24 November 2009, in what the show admitted was an "unlikely coup" for public interest, it broadcast for the first time on television in Ireland, the four controversial advertisements commissioned by employment agency FÁS, which cost the citizens €600,000 but were never previously aired.

[16] Another spin-off saw them interviewing nemesis Pat Kenny for the People in Need Telethon whilst around the same time a book, The Ballydung Bible, was released.