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There was speculation that the show was possibly going to end.<ref name="The Irish Independent war footing">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/retell-us-the-old-old-story-about-the-celtic-tiger-1623045.htm|title=The Irish Independent|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=23 May 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> When the last series ended, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh said the programme would continue in 2009.<ref name="The Evening Herald: I'll be back, vows Blathnaid">{{cite news|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/ill-be-back-vows-blathnaid-1749149.html|title=I'll be back, vows Blathnaid|author=Nolan, Lorna|date=23 May 2009|work=Evening Herald|accessdate=23 May 2009}}</ref> It was confirmed though, in August 2009 that the programme would return "later and longer".<ref name="New Season 09/10">{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/newseason/pdf/newseason_09_10_public.pdf|title=RTÉ Television New Season 09/10|work=RTÉ|accessdate=13 August 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The programme returned on 7 September 2009 beginning at 16:00 until 17:45.<ref name="TheAfternoonShow"/>

[[Síle Seoige]] was to temporarily replace [[Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh]] in September 2009.<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0901/theafternoonshow.html "Síle joins Sheana on Afternoon Show"], RTÉ Entertainment, 1 September 2009.</ref> Later in the month, Ní Chofaigh revealed she would not be returning to the programme.<ref name="Stress and health issues force tearful Bláthnaid to abandon RTE show">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/stress-and-health-issues-force-tearful-blathnaid-to-abandon-rte-show-1897896.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930042913/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/stress-and-health-issues-force-tearful-blathnaid-to-abandon-rte-show-1897896.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2009 |title=Stress and health issues force tearful Blathnaid to abandon RTÉ show |date=27 September 2009 |work=Irish Independent |accessdate=28 September 2009 |first=Aengus |last=Fanning }}{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Bláthnaid leaves The Afternoon Show">{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0928/theafternoonshow.html|title=Bláthnaid leaves The Afternoon Show|date=28 September 2009|work=RTÉ|accessdate=28 September 2009}}</ref>

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[[Sheana Keane]] began presenting the show since the launch. After the first season, Sheana did not return for the second as she wanted to concentrate on her family. Sheana though did return for the third season from 2006-07 when Anna Nolan left the show. On her return Sheana presented the show from Monday to Thursday while Trevor Keegan steps in on Fridays with Bláthnaid. Sheana has taken many breaks throughout the four seasons she has presented but the most notable has been in March 2009 when she took a break for personal reasons, saying she was suffering from 'vertigo' and has not returned for the rest of the season. It has been announced that Sheana will return to the show presenting the sixth season from 2009-102009–10.

Trevor Keegan hashad been with ''The Afternoon Show'' since the launch as the showbiz correspondent and filled in presenting throughout the first season and second season. When Sheana returned for the third season 2006-07 Trevor began presenting every Friday with Blathnaid as well as featuring during the rest of the week with showbiz gossip but since the fifth season 2008-09 as just presented every Friday only. In March 2009, when Sheana left for personal reasons, he has presented the show from Monday-Friday.

Trevor was an AP on Reality Bites 'From Boom To Maternity' and then series producer of the reality show, Six In The {{not a typo|City}}. He was responsible for casting the series as well. After that he continued work with Waka TV for RTÉ as producer of the highest rated programme in the Reality Bites series, Vogue Does Home and Away, in which Vogue McFadden looked at the unprecedented success of the series in Ireland over the last 25 years.

Trevor has most recentlyhad been a producer on another RTÉ 2 pilot programme, Away With A Stranger. He iswas also a continuity presenter for the live links on RTÉ 1 and 2.

Various presenters have filled in for the main presenters if they were away or ill those being [[Síle Seoige]], [[Gráinne Seoige]], [[Kathryn Thomas]] and [[Caroline Morahan]] but [[Pamela Flood]] hashad filled in throughout the past five seasons for various reasons. Her most recent being May 2009 where she has been presenting the show with Trevor Keagan for over two weeks. Kathryn Thomas has also presented throughout various weeks, most recently one week in May.

From 2009 Dr Mark Hamilton presentspresented Friday's show with rotation between Sheana and Maura. He is from Dublin.

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