BBC Breakfast - 16th July onwards

I know I've been warned about what I post about the ratings, but the figures for BBC Breakfast this week have been concerning - and on the low side, by their standards (1.29m - 1.42m), against Good Morning Britain, which has been regularly in the 800k, if not 900k, bracket. I can't help but feel Breakfast is now slipping, and may continue to slip. The loss of the regional bulletins does have its part to play in this, I suspect.

Please stop.

I don't think he will, even after the ban.

Martin Geissler from BBC Scotland’s the Nine presenting this morning

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Has anybody got a clip?

Watching some archive clips of BBC Breakfast News from 1990, I do wish we had a similar format back on BBC One in 2020. The concept is so simple and perfect. The 1989 launch of Breakfast News, in my opinion, was just right for the BBC, to counter balance to fluff and sugar of TV-am back then. Now, in 2020, BBC Breakfast to me, as an occasional breakfast television viewer is just lacking.

BBC Breakfast takes itself too serious, and I would like a more basic Breakfast News format to return. Can anyone tell me during the 1989 - say 1993 version of Breakfast News, were they ever accused of bias? Was Jill Dando's news reading ever considered one sided? I doubt it.

BBC Breakfast is too serious so you want the most no-nonsense version of the show to return?

Personally I preferred Breakfast News, but there's no harm with a little bit of fluff on the current programme, which is largely pushed back to the 8.30-9.15 segment when under normal circumstances would be BBC One only as it transitions into the daytime output.

I do now reflect on the good points of Breakfast News in that era, and there is now something of it which appeals to me. I must have changed, but I like the simplified approach the original programme had in the 1989 - 1993 era at least. You knew what you were getting. BBC Breakfast of 2020 just lacks something, I can't pin point what in words, it is not nostalgia for the past, but there seems to be a need now in my opinion for a truly proper news service at breakfast without commentary and opinion.

We are close on verging toward the American style of breakfast programmes, where nearly every breakfast programme is opinion based, or has some bit of commentary from the anchors. The original BBC Breakfast News stayed away from that, and it would be refreshing to see that format return. Probably as am getting older, I prefer just basic news.

The never ending allegations of bias at BBC News in every programme by a lot of commentators just shows how much we need this type of breakfast programme back. Just my thoughts, take it or leave it, I don't mind.

Can you imagine a programme like Fox and Friends on BBC or ITV? Has anyone watched much Fox and Friends? It really is a great laugh, but then you realise that they are supposed to be a "fair and balanced" news channel. We all know Fox News leans more to the right than someone who has had their right leg missing, but it does make me laugh at their commentary.

Morning Joe on MSNBC lurches to the left and CNN's breakfast show tries to stay in the centre, but verges off to the left again.

I am starting to see this opinion driven style coming to our breakfast service, with Piers Morgan the show runner for it. Even Susanna has her moments of commentary and opinion.

I liked Breakfast News, and it very much fitted where the BBC was back then. Now, I don't think it would fit the BBC where it is now. I'm not even sure the current incarnation of Breakfast totally fits anymore. It's stale, it's staid, it just doesn't work anymore. It needs to change, it needs to revamp itself. I know the ratings don't suggest it needs to, but in so many other ways, it needs a major change.