BBC Breakfast - 2018 Refresh

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Just found this random clip of an interview on Breakfast dated from 2004. I notice the programme finished at 9:30. Did Breakfast use to air later than 9:15 in those days? It's dated as 23rd April which was a Friday so it wasn't a weekend edition and with it being April i can't think of any special reason to the programme being extended.

Although there are other instances in previous years and sometimes Breakfast finished at 9am. In this case Kilroy had finished earlier in the year and there were no LIVE morning topical programmes at 10am.

Breakfast did run until 9:30 at that point, as shown by a BBC One schedule from that day. BBC Genome seems to suggest that from Monday 26 January 2004, the first weekday after Kilroy finished, Breakfast was extended to finish at 9:30; however, this only lasted until Monday 5 July 2004, when Breakfast moved to finish at 9:15. Of course, when Kilroy was still running, Breakfast used to finish at 9am.

Excerpt from Breakfast this morning to explain the absence of Louise Minchin. Naga has been covering Mon-Fri for the last 3 weeks, but Steph was the stand-in today.

Louise was also on Sunday's Breakfast to explain what she's been doing.

Courtesy of the Christmas RadioTimes

Sat 22 - Louise Minchin and Chris Mason
Sun 23 - Roger Johnson and Victoria Fritz
Mon 24 - Louise Minchin
Tue 25 - Louise Minchin
Wed 26 - Roger Johnson
Thu 27 - Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt
Fri 28 - Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt
Sat 29 - Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt
Sun 30 - Naga Munchetty and Rachel Burden
Mon 31 - Dan Walker
Tue 1 - Louise Minchin
Wed 2 - Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt
Thu 3 - Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt
Fri 4 - Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt

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— James Mobbs (@jamesmobbs) December 13, 2018

Looks like a different shot each day, and the music is subtly different too. Love it!

I suppose the payback for Louise getting a month off to indulge in her sporting activities in South America is to sacrifice her Christmas and New Year.

Yes, I'm sure it would be the same for most people. I wonder how the emergency services survive?

I wasn't aware that TV presentation was similar to providing an emergency response service, or anything remotely similar.


I was simply pointing out that Louise seems to have copped for the unpopular shifts over Xmas/New Year. In the last few years Naga has done those. It was just a comment that perhaps it was a trade-off for taking a month out. Nothing more than that, and certainly not a comment about people who provide essential services 24/7.

Most people DON'T work over Christmas/New Year.

I guess it is, in so much as it is a 24/7 industry, and anybody taking a job in such an industry knows that shifts at unsocial times are an occupational hazard.