BBC Breakfast - 2018 Refresh

Yes - though until the move to Salford there were still two 'Breakfasts' in reality. There was the 'main' Breakfast which ran 5-days a week, and then the News 24/News Channel version which ran on weekends and many public holidays. So at the weekends and on some public holiday 'Breakfast' prior to the Salford move was presumably from the News Channel (or News 24) studio and always felt a bit different (not least because it was desk-based not sofa-based when it was from the News Channel studio)

One of the changes that happened when the programme moved to Salford was that it came from the same studio 7 days week, including public holidays.

If I recall correctly, there are more pre-recorded reports and features, plus BBC News "review of the year" 15-25 minute programmes during Christmas Day and New Year's Day editions of Breakfast.

That's not too dissimilar to what happens most weekends on Breakfast. They take plenty of back half-hour fillers from BBC WN and the rest of the NC.

Yes - though these are clearly recorded shows and separate to the live news output.

Rkolsen - are the pre-recorded elements of the US early shows shot on location and clearly 'different' to the normal morning output, or are they recorded on-set with the regular morning hosts 'as live'?

Thought I'd seen a video of this on YouTube but taking a look I can only find a New Years Day open, which I imagine is much the same:



A special pre-titles sequence but then normal titles and VO, including the 'LIVE from Studio 1A in Rockerfeller Plaza' part. After the general chit-chat they reference that they're at home with family and that they're pre-recording their segments, before throwing to someone who's actually live at the Washington bureau with the headlines - slightly odd to say 'thanks' to a recording but I guess that's something they do a lot, as most VTs on Nightly News etc seem to involve the correspondent out on location, and throwing back to the presenter in the studio as if was a live piece.

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Haha! Was that intro just an oversight, or were they really referring to the four seconds of footage zooming into the building? (presuming that was actually live, which in itself would be odd).

That was curious. A live caption on a pre-recorded zoom shot! Guessing that crept on at the time of recording.

Also, like to know when the studio segments were recorded?

Guessing the previous Friday morning (which last year would have been the 29th) because to namecheck the actual newsreader, when all sorts of reasons out of anyone's control could have conspired between taping and live broadcast, as to why that may not have been the intro'ed newsreader, was slightly risky.

Well it could be referring to it being recorded “as live” with no edits. Kind of like how Jimmy Kimmel Live is done.

A via odd announcement , especially with the on screen tag and Savannah mentioning the fact that they recorded the programme. Dropping the word ‘live’ would have made it correct without ruining the announcement imo. Nice idea of a special though. Didn’t Anne & Nick used to do a similar thing on TVam? I’m surprised that they haven’t done a This Morning recorded programme over here.

Well the Live from Studio 1A is iconic and dropping it sounds odd.






That’s likely recorded as well.


I doubt the networks record were recording on the 29th or the week after Christmas this year as some of the hosts would be off. It appeared on Instagram today that CBS This Morning was filming their New Years Show.

On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, they would use the phrase "Live on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater ..." - this was for the live editions of his talk show, which would only air live in the east coast and central time zones. The rest of the country would get to see it "live to tape".

Every feed of his show has that. The only shows that don’t is when he’s actually live at 11:35. There’s only a handful of live shows each year.