BBC Breakfast

I agree. Jane Hill is another presenter who has worked hard, is experienced, and always an excellent presenter, and co-presenter working well with others, whether on the News Channel, BBC One or presenting from location.

Simon McCoy seriously needs to spend more time on the sofa. His humour and banter with his co-presenters is seriously refreshing. winding up Kate a treat this morning. Most amusing!

He is certainly one of the most entertaining presenters to watch on the News Channel, and seems to have a very good rapport with whoever he is paired.

However, there may be another reason for any additional cheeriness during his stint on the Breakfast sofa this week: as perhaps the early shift allows for some extra time this weekend with Mrs McCoy (AKA Victoria Graham), as she announced to the audience of Spotlight this evening - much to the embarassment of her co-presenter!

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I see Charlie has inadvertently reinstalled his anti-chemistry chip.

There's Susanna bantering away.... in a vacuum.

C'mon man - get some life into it.

Could be that (A) has been caused by (B)? Sorry to modify your quote.

But, you know what it's like when you have a woman wittering away in your ear in the morning. Sometimes not the most pleasant of things. Now, if it had been Shereen, well.........that's a different story!

Oh I don't know how he puts up with her, I remember May 1st and every 5 seconds I thought she was going to get up do a cartwheel and sream "I was the one who told you"! "Osama bin Laden is dead!" - I would have kept Babita on that day!

She wasn't wittering, or being over-excited.

One example of the lack of interaction was a story about NASA trying to retrieve space debris. They showed an image (quite a shocking image, mark you) of all the junk floating in space around earth.

Susanna remarks, "that's a LOT of stuff there!" - Charlie stares to camera - blank tableau - expressionless.

She looks to him, in silence. Hoping for something.

He says, "...yes".

If I wanted to sit with people who have nothing to say and no charm, I'd have left for work an hour early.

Not that I'd subscribe to the above poster's weirdly sexist views, but the example you've given would kinda make me side with Stayt on this. I mean, what exactly was he supposed to say in response to that? You could argue that it's his job but by simply stating that there's "a lot of stuff up there" she was very much throwing the ball into his court to immediately come up with something witty and clever on the spot, or to come out with some hackneyed cliché like "shocking stuff" or "really makes you think". "Yes" probably seemed like the best option in the circumstances.

Banter has its place, but if it's going to be as inane as "wow, that's a lot of stuff", then I feel it's best just not to bother in the first place. Actually, I'm curious as to how it's managed, is it actually factored into running orders for presenters to have some spontaneous interaction? As in, "talk to each other here"?

Ha! "Really makes you think"

You're right about it not being a particularly rich opening gambit - but I think what made the moment an arse-clencher was the silence. A "hmm" would have sufficed - honestly. It was just another moment where he gave the sense he really wasn't a bit interested.

In fairness to Charlie, I didn't see lots of the programme this morning, but for that period where I was getting ready to leave, I just thought, "urgh".

There's always folk on here who say they're not fond of Susanna - suggestions that she's condescending or "mumsy". I wonder if that's a perception of age. I think she's great - I like her on the show and have never found her to be those things she's accused of being.

Horses for courses, perhaps.

If it was a choice between her & the WAG on ITV, I'd choose Susanna, but I prefer Sian as she's more authorative IMO. When Sian leaves, I would prefer an authorative presenter. My mother likes Kate & Naga personally.

Not sure its wholly fair to call Christine a WAG. She was pretty firmly established in her own right before she came to be coupled with a footballer.

I always think of WAGs as being those daft lassies of no discernible talent (aside perhaps from bedroom things of which I'm not interested), rather than someone of independent "fame" from their own broadcast career.

Yuk @ "fame" - but you know what I mean.

Kate is great, Naga comes across well too - and yes, it's a pity Sian is leaving the sofa.

All in all they've got a great selection of talent. And I do like Charlie - I just wish he seemed to enjoy the programme as much as the others.

Previously you seem to have a vendetta against some of the BBC Breakfast presenters, particularly evidenced by this:

It's a pointless and useless slur against the programme, and its presenters, as you obviously watch it through choice against many other offerings on t'TellyBox.