The Big Breakfast

I again agree, I didn’t think that the house was too dark at all, the red was cosy with a bright green sofa, the other rooms were blues and purples with brighter colours again as accents.
It felt like a reimagining of the show with the new logo, and feel of the show, moving it into the 21st century and making it as different to the Vaughan era as possible. I felt like the branding fitted in with the Channel 4 idents at the time too.
The fact that they had more bands performing changed it up a little too.
Example:


Some of the January/relaunch features were a little weak but things picked up quickly, Fielder Cold was a prime example of a new way of still having a bit of a silly game.

I assuming that it was the change in editor that changed it all back to what it was before 2001.

They uncovered the large window by the front door here which was partially covered up in the 1999 version of the hallway.

Is the first relaunch show of 2001 available in full at all?

I did send in the first few opening minutes to the 97channel on YouTube but sadly nowadays my tapes are getting mouldy just sitting there in storage.

Posting a fair number of recommendations on here, but it's worth reading Mike McClean's autobiog which has a few revealing stories about the sudden changes back in April '01.

And plenty of other Brekkie and Nickelodeon related goss.

Someone gave Mike McClean an autobiography deal? Has he been seen since The Big Breakfast?

A guest appearance on the second-to-last Office (UK) and Richard and Judy's roving reporter.

The link itself...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oh-Remember-Him-Mike-McClean/dp/1999652614/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Mike+McClean&qid=1592775752&sr=8-1

I was going to say, I bet Steve Williams hasn't even read that one.

Finally a proper captured version of the flyout 1996 closing titles have appeared on YouTube right from the beginning here:

The episode is dated 1997.

I still can't stand the 2001 relaunch look. Just so muted - not what the Big Breakfast was meant to be at all.

By 2001 the BB goose was completely cooked. There seemed little point in carrying on once JV had left. After Chris Evans left it took 3 years until the show was firing on all cylinders again; when Johnny left, they didn’t have the time to organically find the best person to take over.

I agree to an extent, but at least they tried with the 2001 relaunch. They invested in it, gave it a proper revamp, and a lot of it (in hindsight) was on the right track. It needed time to bed back in and improve but was never given it. They just swiftly un-did all the good work and started panic-back-peddling to what they thought made Johnny and Denise a success - even though that format itself was dated by then and JV himself had seen viewers decline in the last few years.

I honestly think had the 2001 format been given time to grow, with regular tweaks rather than pressing a giant 'Undo' button, it could have evolved into a stronger offering which could have lasted longer. It wasn't quite the disaster the 1996 revamp was.