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IT
itsrobert Founding member
I rarely watch TV that early in the morning now but this morning I managed to catch Breakfast from 0800 to the end of the programme. I was pleasantly surprised by its quality. Going by this thread, one would assume it is complete drivel. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Between 0800 and 0812, there was a comprehensive digest of the main news (which is exactly what you would get on BBC World, because after the break it is mainly business, sport and features). Then, at 0812, they went into more depth on the top stories by interviewing relevant people. That was followed by business and weather and a few feature stories which were actually very interesting. (By the way, "Prime Minister", that section on cooking was highlighting the fact that the majority of households only have 4 dishes - they were investigating ways in which people could be given more culinary ideas to enable people to have a more balanced diet - quite relevant given the obesity crisis.) After the regional news and national/international headlines, there was a full sports bulletin. Then they went into the entertainment/arts/culture stuff. At 0840, the majority of people wanting a news digest will have left the house, so it is quite a nice way to wrap things up by discussing other, non-news items. All in all, I felt fully briefed this morning and it was delivered by two capable and entertaining newsreaders.
PR
Primetime
I think Breakfast is great, news indepth, sports, weather, markets etc, and followed by ''lighter stories'' at around 8.30 - when BBC News 24 pulls out. Sian and Bill, are a great entertaining team.
CL
CL2K
Belatedly, I agree with a few posters above in saying how great it is to see Sian Williams and Bill Turnbull back together. How sad is it that I thought of a poster here on seeing them: "Ooh, Turnbull & Williams will be so pleased!"
WE
Westy2
BBC WORLD posted:
Karl posted:
Prime Minister posted:
This morning's main story: Rubbish collectors may only collect your rubbish every two weeks very soon or something. Then at 8.45 until 8.55 we had a feature about David Cameron's hair. Added to this the joy of the God-awful Turnbull and stuttering, always falsely laughing Susanna Reid. Yesterday Turnbull and the divorced woman with a new born who may have a BBC employee as father were fighting over a pillow. And, oh yeah, Declan "I've eaten plenty of" Curry was reporting from someone's loft when he should have been giving us the business news.

Anyone get the very slight distinct impression that this programme is dumbing down? Mind you, it's produced by BBC News, who also make the 'Six O Clock News', which started tonight with two presenters giggling. Then at 6.10 (yes - 10 mins into the 30 min bulletin) something else got the presenters into a laughter.

To think we have to pay for this rubbish Rolling Eyes


Just a tip - If you want your points taken seriously then try making comments without entirely inappropriate and irrelevant comments. Things like "the divorced woman with a new born who may have a BBC employee as father were fighting over a pillow" shows what an attitude problem you have. Shame on you and any people who entertain your patheticness.


Words taken right out of my mouth!

Prime Minister, if you are referring to Sian Williams and Declan Curry, please just use their names, rather than several sentences of irrelevant drivel.


I was under the impression it was a BBC departmental bigwig who was 'Daddy', not Declan!
TW
Turnbull and Williams
CL2K posted:
Belatedly, I agree with a few posters above in saying how great it is to see Sian Williams and Bill Turnbull back together. How sad is it that I thought of a poster here on seeing them: "Ooh, Turnbull & Williams will be so pleased!"


How nice of you to think of me!!! But yes, once again it was good to see the dream team back on our screens today!
HO
House
also, where did Susanna Reid come into things? As far as I was concerned before Mishal's maternity leave Susanna was simply a RELIEF presenter on News 24. Surely someone more senior would have taken over. Speaking of which, WHY DID MISHAL EVEN LEAVE? I remember reading guardian and BBC stories or biographies saying that Mishal was coming back to Breakfast and until recently it said on Susanna's profile that she was simply covering for Mishal. I WANT MISHAL BACK!!!
IT
itsrobert Founding member
imnogoth posted:
also, where did Susanna Reid come into things? As far as I was concerned before Mishal's maternity leave Susanna was simply a RELIEF presenter on News 24. Surely someone more senior would have taken over. Speaking of which, WHY DID MISHAL EVEN LEAVE? I remember reading guardian and BBC stories or biographies saying that Mishal was coming back to Breakfast and until recently it said on Susanna's profile that she was simply covering for Mishal. I WANT MISHAL BACK!!!


Mishal is back on BBC World now, where she started several years ago. It was from BBC World that she moved to Breakfast. Now, she's gone back.

As for Susannah Reid, she has been a presenter on News 24 way before Mishal Husain appeared on the domestic news scene. She used to do the interactive bulletins but then moved to presenting weekend mornings in c.2003. She's been on maternity leave a few times, IIRC, which meant she lost her regular shift.
HO
House
itsrobert posted:
imnogoth posted:
also, where did Susanna Reid come into things? As far as I was concerned before Mishal's maternity leave Susanna was simply a RELIEF presenter on News 24. Surely someone more senior would have taken over. Speaking of which, WHY DID MISHAL EVEN LEAVE? I remember reading guardian and BBC stories or biographies saying that Mishal was coming back to Breakfast and until recently it said on Susanna's profile that she was simply covering for Mishal. I WANT MISHAL BACK!!!


Mishal is back on BBC World now, where she started several years ago. It was from BBC World that she moved to Breakfast. Now, she's gone back.

As for Susannah Reid, she has been a presenter on News 24 way before Mishal Husain appeared on the domestic news scene. She used to do the interactive bulletins but then moved to presenting weekend mornings in c.2003. She's been on maternity leave a few times, IIRC, which meant she lost her regular shift.


So why did Mishal get moved back to BBC World, seems to me like she was almost demoted!
JA
Jakarta
imnogoth posted:
So why did Mishal get moved back to BBC World, seems to me like she was almost demoted!


Ahem! 65 million viewers worldwide each week on BBC World = demotion?

I get the impression that some newsreaders prefer to be on one channel over the other (ie World or N24). Hence there isn't must swapping between channels, which is a shame since Jonathan Charles, Nik Gowing, Lyse Doucet and Katty Kay not to mention many others are really excellent.
ST
Stuart
Oops.....you would think that Breakfast yould use the right BBC TWO logo Shocked Shocked .

This was the caption promoting Budget coverage this morning:

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/wrongtwo.jpg
JR
jrothwell97
StuartPlymouth posted:
Oops.....you would think that Breakfast yould use the right BBC TWO logo Shocked Shocked .

This was the caption promoting Budget coverage this morning:

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/wrongtwo.jpg


Did they just re-use last year's slide?
JW
JamesWorldNews
Jakarta posted:
imnogoth posted:
So why did Mishal get moved back to BBC World, seems to me like she was almost demoted!


Ahem! 65 million viewers worldwide each week on BBC World = demotion?

I get the impression that some newsreaders prefer to be on one channel over the other (ie World or N24). Hence there isn't must swapping between channels, which is a shame since Jonathan Charles, Nik Gowing, Lyse Doucet and Katty Kay not to mention many others are really excellent.



BBC World is a quality place to be!

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