BBC Breakfast

Do they forget to tell guests not to get up and wander off when they've finished talking? It seems to happen a lot.

Indeed it does. I made the same point months ago. You often see it happening at the end of the programme as the camera pulls out and the guest prepares to get up, only to be told by the presenters to sit back down again.

Dan Walker and Naga Munchetty handling the breaking story about the hijacked plane in Cyprus.

They would be, as they are presenting the show this morning.

I thought I'd chuck it in, seeing as every time someone breathes on Good Morning Britain, it's posted here.

The NC broke away from Breakfast at about 08:27 as usual. However, they went straight into a national weather forecast, rather than preceding this with a Coming Up menu to plug Victoria Derbyshire etc. As a consequence, the countdown sequence to the 08:30 BOTH began at about the 45 seconds mark (it's normally barely more than 10 seconds).

We then cut abruptly to the ongoing rolling coverage of the Egyptian plane hijack, that was clearly already well underway on the World News channel. The first syllable or two of the studio presenter saying something like "This is BBC News" (which was presumably meant to serve as the "welcome" point for UK viewers) were missed off, as we joined a slight moment too late. Obviously, no Business Live under the circumstances.

I think Jay Lee's point was to note the different approaches of Breakfast compared to GMB. By which I mean that Breakfast's main anchors (who happen to be Dan & Naga today) are handling the breaking news, whereas GMB's main anchors (Kate & Jeremy) are largely taking a back seat for the breaking story in favour of the "news round up" presenter (Charlotte) handling it.

Of course, that's because BBC Breakfast doesn't have the (IMHO rather pointless) extra "newsreader" role. The main Breakfast anchors handle all the main news (breaking or otherwise), as there isn't anyone else. The other presenters who pop in for certain bits of the programme are there to handle e.g. business or sport specifically, as opposed to the "proper news". That said, sometimes the sport/business person will (at least partially) handle a breaking story, if it happens to be sport/business related.

Why ITV breakfast (right back to at least the GMTV days) has a tertiary presenter in addition to the main anchor duo, to basically just do the headline summaries and precious little else, has always been beyond me.

When BBC Breakfast launched though they did have a newsreader - Moira Stuart for the early part of the week. They did eventually dispense with the role.

As Austin points out, I mentioned who was presenting because it's different from how it normally is. Breakfast was exactly the same as usual.

Yes, that was the reason I posted it. Sorry if it offends anyone who may be a GMB fan (I know there are many here).

To follow Austin Tatious's point, it's interesting to note that the BBC did have Moira Stewart doing the tertiary news reader role ("News 24 Briefing") alongside the two main anchors on BBC Breakfast when it first launched back in 2000. Sensibly, they dispensed with it soon afterwards (much as Moira Stewart is a legend).

I don't remember it being that soon. I recal seeing Moira and Rob Bonnet present during the Natasha and Dermot era.

Was it not when they moved from the airport lounge set to the blue clouds set as they reintroduced a desk for the early part of the programme.