BBC Breakfast

No surprise and I suspect her tweets last Wednesday praising the team were her goodbye.

I guess the Salford situation slightly complicates finding a replacement though apart from Jeremy Bowen and poaching Dermot Murnaghan Breakfast hasn't really used established names anyway. Just hope whoever they choose they're there on merit and not to satisfy some BBC directive to have older women on TV. Moira Stewart anyone?

I suspect she's banking on the GMB position being relatively short/mid term, actually. Say she stayed at the BBC: what would she have done next? There's not a difference between being a Fri-Sun presenter and being a Mon-Wed one (except on lifestyle), which means Susanna's had the same job in effect for a decade. She doesn't strike me as someone destined for hard news, and the likelihood is Sian and Kate would still be presenting had the programme not moved to Salford.

She spends a couple of years at ITV's breakfast show and, assuming it's unsuccessful, gets moved to some other form of programming. That's a scenario she likely wouldn't have had at the BBC. ITV seem to work quite hard to find their presenters new roles when they want to start again - Kate Garraway has been kept on for a long time since being dropped as a main presenter, while Adrian Chiles, Christine Bleakley, Lorraine Kelly, Aled Jones, John Stapleton and Lucy Verasamy have all been given new positions or deals. If ITV really do see a value in Susanna beyond Breakfast newsreader, my guess would be she's banking on getting the same treatment.

Also, while I don't endorse some posters' talk of her personal life, I do wonder if money might have had something to do with her move. If I remember correctly from interviews her train fare and hotel were being paid by the BBC for around two years after the move to Salford as part of the relocation package - a couple of years on, I wonder if she'd now have to pay those expenses herself? My guess is that would be rather pricey, and even having her existing deal matched at ITV might, if I'm correct, have been worth a lot more as a London based position.


Re: replacement - I wonder about a return from Kate Silverton. I make no comment on how such an arrangement may or may not work for her lifestyle and family, but when Sian Williams returns from sabbatical (and Silverton from maternity leave) the network news team are again going to be overstaffed. Kate is familiar to the audience, has 'star recognition' compared to Louise and Naga, and might be seen (at least in the short term) as a good rebuke to any offering from ITV. When Daybreak first launched Breakfast had a very stable, confident team in place, and the 2012 relaunch saw familiar faces up against familiar faces. This time, with ITV poaching one of their own and forcing at least a small degree of change at Breakfast, the BBC might look to a bigger name (for insurance) as Greg suggested.

One other thing - I hope they get rid of "pic'n'mix" Sundays. Not a fan.

I would welcome Kate Silverton. Always rated her as a presenter and journalist. It might be nice to see her taking Carrie Gracie's place in the slot on News 24 she occupied some years ago though.

Naga won't be based up north will she? So would have to have a major lifestyle change to take up a permanent Thur/Fri/Sat slot rather than appearances every now and then.

As far as I recall it was actually Bill who wanted to reduce his presenting to 3 days - that's when the notion of a "main" team was dropped and both teams started doing 3 days each.

I cannot see that changing while Bill still presents the programme.

Kate Silverton has made it quite clear in interviews and on Twitter that she has no intention of returning to full time presenting in the next few years. She purposefully cut back


The Notion is very much still there.

Is that a joke?

Kate Silverton is preggers again anyway so wouldn't make much sense her moving and taking up Breakfast only to go on maternity.

No it bloody well isn't, but i suppose my views on here are considered as a joke, something not serious, or my opinion is not valid. Just because some think they're better than me, everyone is entitled to their opinions. But not ones which offend people.

But i suppose you like to single out members and make sarky remarks, good old tvf.

I think people single out silly comments and a lack of people processing things in their head before posting.

What new deals?
As off next Sunday Christine Bleakley has no work or contract with ITV. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-03-02/christine-bleakleys-off-the-beaten-track-travel-show-scrapped-by-itv

Aled Jones has a 20 week contract which suspiciously ends on the 2nd anniversary of his debut on Daybreak. So basically just working out his contract.
Adrian Chiles has seen his factual series and his Sunday night show scrapped and is now just anchoring ITV football. Which is a about to loose the FA Cup and Champions league and is unlikely to remain as Football presenter once Peter Fincham leaves.
He is now the Friday presenter on Radio 5 Live's Drive.
Lorraine, Kate and John were all ITV to begin with.



And??
Dan Lobb
Tamsin Lucia Khan
Kirsty McCabe
Grainne Seoige
Gavin Ramjaun
Steve Hargrave
Phil Reay Smith
Penny Smith
and that's before the next Daybreak bloodbath


Why when were they overstaffed before? With Sophie soon to bow out to front a month of watchdog daily as well as a new BBC2 documentary series. I don't see the overstaffing especially as Kate does very little anyway (by choice). Last I heard of Sian she was actually filming an ITV factual pilot.