I think it is probably due to the fact that Gillian Joseph is taking time of, and Tazeen has now become 3rd presenter. Surprised they didnt bring Moira in to do an extra day though
It may well be in Moira's contract that she does a set amount of shifts per week. The person in charge of the rota does not have every BBC presenter at their disposal, you know.
I think it ought to finish at 09.00, and adopt the 'newsier' feel it had up until November 2002. Headline recaps every fifteen minutes would be good instead of plugging the light-hearted stuff all the time. Also, finishing at 09.00 would mean about 15 minutes of the light-hearted stories, which is about right. It always worked perfectly like that between 2000 and 2002.
Definately. A couple of insiders hinted that the headline updates would be coming back, whilst i believe it was Marcus who said that moving into N24 was an option for them - does anyone have any more on this?
I take it no-one knows about any changes then.
IMO the 'newsreader' isn't needed at all - the 2 presenters should do the news summaries as before 2000.
I think it ought to finish at 09.00, and adopt the 'newsier' feel it had up until November 2002. Headline recaps every fifteen minutes would be good instead of plugging the light-hearted stuff all the time. Also, finishing at 09.00 would mean about 15 minutes of the light-hearted stories, which is about right. It always worked perfectly like that between 2000 and 2002.
Definately. A couple of insiders hinted that the headline updates would be coming back, whilst i believe it was Marcus who said that moving into N24 was an option for them - does anyone have any more on this?
I take it no-one knows about any changes then.
IMO the 'newsreader' isn't needed at all - the 2 presenters should do the news summaries as before 2000.
I think it ought to finish at 09.00, and adopt the 'newsier' feel it had up until November 2002. Headline recaps every fifteen minutes would be good instead of plugging the light-hearted stuff all the time. Also, finishing at 09.00 would mean about 15 minutes of the light-hearted stories, which is about right. It always worked perfectly like that between 2000 and 2002.
Definately.
A couple of insiders hinted that the headline updates would be coming back, whilst i believe it was Marcus who said that moving into N24 was an option for them - does anyone have any more on this?
I take it no-one knows about any changes then.
IMO the 'newsreader' isn't needed at all - the 2 presenters should do the news summaries as before 2000.
re an earlier post - Breakfast will be leaving its current Monday - Friday studio and moving to News24.... but not for 12 months. It'll save a few quid - which will be helpful now the savings are beginning to, erm... bite.
re an earlier post - Breakfast will be leaving its current Monday - Friday studio and moving to News24.... but not for 12 months. It'll save a few quid - which will be helpful now the savings are beginning to, erm... bite.
Thanks for that - but why so long! Do you know about the headline updates returning?
The cuts were only announced on Monday - so the contract to have TC7 for Breakfast for the next financial year is almost certainly signed. And the reason moving studios saves money is - bluntly - most of that studio team gets sacked. So there'll be negotiations with the unions, notice periods to be served.... it takes a while. And less importantly, there'll be knock-ons for News24 - the breakfast downtime is useful for maintenance, set tweaks and training. And no obvious discussion so far of the 0900 News24/BBC1 Breakfast clash.
re an earlier post - Breakfast will be leaving its current Monday - Friday studio and moving to News24.... but not for 12 months. It'll save a few quid - which will be helpful now the savings are beginning to, erm... bite.
but will they return to the current set? Also will it have a few tweaks
Erm, why would they return to the dedicated Breakfast set after moving? If they're moving in to News 24 in a year's time to save money, what scenario do you envisage where they'd be able to waste that saved money on tarting up the previous set and moving back into it?
The cuts were only announced on Monday - so the contract to have TC7 for Breakfast for the next financial year is almost certainly signed. And the reason moving studios saves money is - bluntly - most of that studio team gets sacked. So there'll be negotiations with the unions, notice periods to be served.... it takes a while. And less importantly, there'll be knock-ons for News24 - the breakfast downtime is useful for maintenance, set tweaks and training. And no obvious discussion so far of the 0900 News24/BBC1 Breakfast clash.
Why should there be any maintenance problems. If then need to do work, they'll do overnights from N9 World. There's also the N6 National studio, which can and has been used for World and News 24.
I personally prefer the programme presented on the sofa as it gives the news informatively but also is appropiate for light hearted stories in the morning, especially the entertainment. If they have to go to the N24 studio then they should have the sofas in like they did on Good Friday and use them for the entertainment.
In the meantime I think that instead of having any random presenter on the newsdesk they should have the sports presenter reading the news as Rob Bonnett has presented Breakfast before and the sports presenter are only giving the sports news for about five minutes an hour anyway. Perhaps they could include sport into the summary at half past.
Did anybody see Natasha presenting Brekfast by herself this morning
(04/04/05) while Dermot was in the Vatican City. I thought she was excellent and handled it very well (please don't jump up and down and insult me because this is my opinion).
