On 14 March 2015, O'Connor announced that the programme would end that May, with Ray D'Arcy to take over the Saturday night slot from the following autumn.

[5] The Saturday Night Show achieved cult status for numerous incidents, many of them rather coincidentally involving the common theme of homosexuality.

[9] Alex Reid proposed to Chantelle Houghton when the British celebrities appeared on the show on an episode broadcast on 8 October 2011.

[11][12][13][14][15][16] Newly-weds Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick joined Brendan to discuss their whirlwind love affair on 5 November 2011, announcing that it was their first interview as a couple despite having been involved with each other for 18 years.

[19] During a November 2011 performance by The Overtones, Brendan O'Connor had to hold up a curtain after a "terrible mishap occurred in the RTÉ studio".

[22] In May 2014, O'Connor asked his guest, the Labour minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, to remove a pin calling for a 'Yes' vote in the Marriage Referendum from the jacket of his collar.

[24] In February 2010, a 59-year-old RTÉ props assistant injured himself after falling over a studio floor lamp while working on The Saturday Night Show.

[25] On 14 March 2015, O'Connor announced without warning live on air his resignation as host of The Saturday Night Show.

The presenter and Sunday Independent journalist said that the light entertainment show would finish for good at the end of that series on 30 May 2015.

"[32] The Saturday Night Show is broadcast live from Studio 4 in the RTÉ Television Centre at Donnybrook, Dublin 4.