"Thought you'd want to read this yourself," the big rating said with a little smile.
A celebrity edition of the show also drew big ratings in November.
The debate was a big ratings win for TG4, with around 600,000 people watching live.
The show had brought some of the channel's biggest ratings to date.
"Probably, you won't want to wait until morning to read the message I brought," the big rating said with a quick salute.
So that was what the big rating silently tried to warn him about!
It had its biggest ratings in March 1999 when more than 19 million were watching the show.
Pick the show with the biggest ratings and go on.
And the bigger, more comfortably middle-class the house, the better the rating.
Last week, they had talked of having created a franchise that would guarantee big ratings.