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itsrobert Founding member
Breakfast News posted:
itsrobert posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Is anyone able to get some captures of this morning's proceedings? I also hope they make reference to two of the greatest names to be associated with Breakfast and who - for totally different reasons - are no longer associated with the programme.

I am referring to Moira Stuart and Jill Dando.


Jill Dando was seen in a clip of Breakfast News from 1989 (when she presented with Nicholas Witchell) but her contributions in the 1990s were completely ignored.

Moira swatting the "big fly" was featured.

I was particularly looking forward to seeing the 1990s, as that's when I started watching. I wasn't born when it started in 1983, so that era didn't mean much to me. I was hoping to see the virtual era again. It always seems as though the BBC is embarrassed about the virtual era - it never gets a look-in in retrospectives.


Another crime...was no mention of Sally Magnusson! Part of the programme for more than a decade, a not even a look in - strange considering she's still with the Beeb!


Yep, nor the likes of Justin Webb, Jon Nicholson or Noel Thompson - all of whom were great presenters, imo.
NE
News24
Utter devastation that Jon Nicholson was not featured. Legendary.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Gavin Scott posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Is anyone able to get some captures of this morning's proceedings? I also hope they make reference to two of the greatest names to be associated with Breakfast and who - for totally different reasons - are no longer associated with the programme.

I am referring to Moira Stuart and Jill Dando.


Umm, you're pretty much always referring to Moira. Wink


Yes, Gavin. I know. LOL. Because she is the best thing that BBC News had!!

Other forgotten former BBC Breakfast anchors would include Jennie Bond, Sara Coburn, Tanya Beckett, Pamela Armstrong, Paul Burden, Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Rob Bonnet, Declan Currie........and the chap from Working Lunch (Adrian Chiles) also anchored Breakfast once!
ST
Steery
Unfortunately, my daughter switched my PVR off at the mains whilst recording this mornings trip down memory lane (& I hadn't the time to reset it), so I'm going to have to rely on TVCatchup or something like that - if anyone's got any caps, it would be appreciated.

What I did see a little earlier, was a brief visit to the old set & Selina Scott berating whoever was responsible for putting it together for supplying leather sofas in mustardy ochre rather than antique red!

Her is a link to an article from Media Guardian with a pic that includes another face from the past - Debbie Rix

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/17/bbc.itv
BN
Breakfast News
BBC WORLD posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Is anyone able to get some captures of this morning's proceedings? I also hope they make reference to two of the greatest names to be associated with Breakfast and who - for totally different reasons - are no longer associated with the programme.

I am referring to Moira Stuart and Jill Dando.


Umm, you're pretty much always referring to Moira. Wink


Yes, Gavin. I know. LOL. Because she is the best thing that BBC News had!!

Other forgotten former BBC Breakfast anchors would include Jennie Bond, Sara Coburn, Tanya Beckett, Pamela Armstrong, Paul Burden, Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Rob Bonnet, Declan Currie........and the chap from Working Lunch (Adrian Chiles) also anchored Breakfast once!


No, no - Paxman and Wark were not forgotton...a very serious clip with those 2 from the '88 set!

Despite all that we did see a brief shot of Justin Webb in the 1997 studio, with none other than Fiona Bruce!!
LO
LONDON
Breakfast News posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Is anyone able to get some captures of this morning's proceedings? I also hope they make reference to two of the greatest names to be associated with Breakfast and who - for totally different reasons - are no longer associated with the programme.

I am referring to Moira Stuart and Jill Dando.


Umm, you're pretty much always referring to Moira. Wink


Yes, Gavin. I know. LOL. Because she is the best thing that BBC News had!!

Other forgotten former BBC Breakfast anchors would include Jennie Bond, Sara Coburn, Tanya Beckett, Pamela Armstrong, Paul Burden, Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Rob Bonnet, Declan Currie........and the chap from Working Lunch (Adrian Chiles) also anchored Breakfast once!


No, no - Paxman and Wark were not forgotton...a very serious clip with those 2 from the '88 set!

Despite all that we did see a brief shot of Justin Webb in the 1997 studio, with none other than Fiona Bruce!!


And i don't think that anyone was actaully forgotten, but it would have been very difficult to talk to or show a clip of every presenter of Breakfast Time, Breakfast News and Breakfast, remember they only had 40 minutes. Plus there were alot of pictures of past presenters on the screens of the studio.
DE
deejay
LONDON posted:
Plus there were alot of pictures of past presenters on the screens of the studio.


Indeed. Including the exceedingly odd David Icke!
RW
Robert Williams Founding member
itsrobert posted:
I was particularly looking forward to seeing the 1990s, as that's when I started watching. I wasn't born when it started in 1983, so that era didn't mean much to me. I was hoping to see the virtual era again. It always seems as though the BBC is embarrassed about the virtual era - it never gets a look-in in retrospectives.

Unfortunately I am old enough to remember watching the first edition of Breakfast Time - cannot believe it was 25 years ago!! I won't be able to catch up with my recording of this morning until later, but I would imagine the reason they concentrated on the 1983-86 period is because that's the era people most fondly remember. It all went rather downhill when it got converted into a fairly bland news programme, to the dismay of most of its viewers, and as for the 1990s, what is there to say other than they changed the set and graphics, and then changed them again?
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rob Founding member
A couple of screenshots...

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tvlivesite/70737_debbierix170108007_122_201lo.jpg

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tvlivesite/73004_SelinaScott1_122_928lo.jpg

More over at TS Celebs - 25 Years of Breakfast
LO
looknorth
rob posted:


Is that sofa cellina/chris are on the bowen/raworth sofa era.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Good to see BBC News putting their hand in their pocket to staff TC7 and set up that seperate set. Were both galleries staffed or was TC7 working into N6's gallery?

Is my memory failing me or did Breakfast Time stay on air longer than planned as there were problems with the studio for Breakfast News? ISTR the Pink Panther Show being used as a filler because Breakfast News was intended to start earlier in the day.
TI
tightrope78
I don't remember Sue Cook ever presenting 'Breakfast Time' Confused

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