BBC Breakfast

The BBC and especially GMTV should watch 'Good Morning America' and 'Today' and take note of how to produce a really good breakfast show that still manages to cover all bases.

Thats just my thinking.
Seriously, Today and Good Morning America are both productions of NBC/ABC News
Breakfast is also a production of BBC News

The Americans get the right balance. The BBC just screwed it up over time.
Re-formatting needs to be done at Breakfast I think. I find Breakfast very hard to watch these days. I miss when Sophie and Jeremey presented.

This from a nation that gave us Fox News..

Breakfast, if anything, has started to return to its previous glory. I recently watched the relaunch of NBC's breakfast programme. Utterly rediculas and entirely sickafantic.

I think GMA and TODAY work well in America, they do have the right balance, but looking up on it, maybe that sort of format wouldnt work well here.

Breakfast does seem to work ok, it seems to be neck and neck with GMTV in the ratings.

Out of Breakfast and GMTV to take upon a style from GMA or Today, id say GMTV could pull it off, with a lot of hard work.

On that note, i noticed the other day that the colours on Breakfast log, when those little blocks form are similar to the Today colours.

Joel, I know this isn't an English forum, and everyone knows what you mean etc etc etc but

ridiculous
sycophantic

No, it's a perfectly fair point.

I'll blame a lack of caffeine now..

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No, it's a perfectly fair point.

I'll blame a lack of caffeine now..

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Is that kafeen or caffean?

Though GMA and Today are good shows with regard to the US market - I don't think their formats and style would transfer that well to the UK.

I enjoy watching them when I'm in the US (and when they were available in my previous office in the UK) but I'm not sure they're the right mix for the UK audience.

Sure they're usually slick, and quite warm hearted, but often they do seem a bit "news lite" in comparison to the early bit of Breakfast.

Paddy must be quite blind this morning. He's wearing glasses and still having trouble seeing his script.

Who is Paddy? I didn't know you had a Paddy on Breakfast.

I think he means Patrick O'Connel. He's been a buisness correspondent/presenter across the BBC for a time.

He used to present, amongst others, World Buisness Report, Liquid News and BBC Three News.

On Sunday's Points Of View , there was an item about the amount of "un-news" on Breakfast (e.g. reports about toast landing butter side down or not, etc).

As part of Eammon Holmes' intro on POV, he said something to the effect of "a lack of real news, in a programme with "News" in it's title"

Has the POV script-writer (or, indeed, the complainers) not noticed that the Breakfast programme actually doesn't have the word "News" in it's title, and hasn't had since about the start of this decade? So, presumably the Breakfast programme is officially handled as being "news-based", yet a certain amount of more "feature-y" stuff doesn't break its mission statement.

Taking the above into account, completely invalidates the entire POV item. I get the impression that things like POV, NewsWatch etc have to make a story out of nothing, to fill time.