That shows how they can really do anything with the current TC7 / N6 sets if they put their minds to it. Obviously that looks deliberately dated, but it makes you think how it's a shame the current Breakfast set isn't a bit more warm and inviting.
There was a feature on Look North Leeds this evening about Breakfast News at 25. It briefly showed Business Breakfast during the virtual era, opting out to the regions. I'm guessing it is from 1995.
Watch the report here (Click "Breakfast TV turns 25!").
Nice that they got Ian White to do that package, as he now owns the name, brand and logo of TV-am.
God that doctor/security correspondant/expert on everything woman is annoying. She's the biggest sign of what is awful about Breakfast.
This morning she even suggested that the best form of mental/physical exercise is ballroom dancing, and glanced knowingly at Bill. I could almost hear the Strictly music starting, the sofas being pulled back and a dancing couple entering stage right.
The programme is becoming a parody of itself.
If the ratings are showing that people like this pap then fine, but please make them two distinct programmes - news first, programme ends at 8am then a separate entertainment/consumer issues programme not under BBC News branding from 8am to 9.15. Or, make Breakfast a non-news programme from a separate studio made by someone else and presented by non-BBC News staff, with news inserts provided by BBC News from a news studio with news readers.
I accidentally clicked onto page 1 of this thread and read this from January 2005
Norma posted:
If/When Dermot and Natasha leave, BBC bosses must surely consider promoting Bill and Sian to be main presenters of the show; they are much loved by the viewers of Breakfast IMO.
Sorry to be a bum and take the debate back a week, but when someone said the reason that the virtual era Breakfast News wasnt talked about was due to the fact that it was just a straight news programme, therefore nothing interesting.....people seem to forget that era saw the spin off shows really take hold....Business Breakfast wasnt mentioned (tho it started in '89), but Breakfast News Extra was on air for a couple of years - surely part of the shift from straight news?!
