Well, 26th to 30th May is the Saturday till the Wednesday, so maybe it started on Monday 28th April. Seems odd he would have made a mistake as his 'TV & Radio Work' section is very detailed and precise as if taken from a diary.
The May half term in 1997 was the same dates as this year, 26th May was a Monday. And obviously The Bigger Breakfast was during half term. Ant and Dec presented it during the May half term, from the house, and then it ran during the summer with Orford and Van Outen on location. Course, they were still on location when Diana died and they did the News Specials.
Commissioned by Planet 24 to write dialogue and sketches for The Bigger Breakfast. A daily 5 hour roadshow special from 26th to 30th April 1997. Presented by Denise Van Outen and Richard Orford.
That's wrong, then. It didn't happen until the May.
Well, 26th to 30th May is the Saturday till the Wednesday, so maybe it started on Monday 28th April. Seems odd he would have made a mistake as his 'TV & Radio Work' section is very detailed and precise as if taken from a diary.
Well, 26th to 30th May is the Saturday till the Wednesday, so maybe it started on Monday 28th April. Seems odd he would have made a mistake as his 'TV & Radio Work' section is very detailed and precise as if taken from a diary.
The May half term in 1997 was the same dates as this year, 26th May was a Monday. And obviously The Bigger Breakfast was during half term. Ant and Dec presented it during the May half term, from the house, and then it ran during the summer with Orford and Van Outen on location. Course, they were still on location when Diana died and they did the News Specials.
Ant and Dec weren't on in May, but were earlier in the year IIRC. Richard and Denise did all the Bigger Breakfasts in May, July and August 1997, bar those news specials for Diana's death. I think she died in the middle of (what was meant to be) a 2 week stand-in run for Jayne Middlemiss. She didn't appear the Monday after Diana's death nor the Friday. (I think Richard presented with, randomly, Joely Richardson on the Friday?)
Well, 26th to 30th May is the Saturday till the Wednesday, so maybe it started on Monday 28th April. Seems odd he would have made a mistake as his 'TV & Radio Work' section is very detailed and precise as if taken from a diary.
The May half term in 1997 was the same dates as this year, 26th May was a Monday. And obviously The Bigger Breakfast was during half term. Ant and Dec presented it during the May half term, from the house, and then it ran during the summer with Orford and Van Outen on location. Course, they were still on location when Diana died and they did the News Specials.
Ant and Dec weren't on in May, but were earlier in the year IIRC. Richard and Denise did all the Bigger Breakfasts in May, July and August 1997, bar those news specials for Diana's death. I think she died in the middle of (what was meant to be) a 2 week stand-in run for Jayne Middlemiss. She didn't appear the Monday after Diana's death nor the Friday. (I think Richard presented with, randomly, Joely Richardson on the Friday?)
Ant and Dec guest hosted with Denise in April 1997, this clip says the 16th April:
For the Christmas pre-records, it was slightly different for the whole show between 8am and 10am. I think this is because it was being generated live by Channel 4 continuity, rather than by the show itself. (The show obviously couldn't provide a clock live as nobody was there to do it.)
I'm sure someone whose job it was to clock watch has posted here before. I can't remember the story but apparently they had to go somewhere (The Big Breakfast house?) over Christmas to do something clock related. I can't find the post now. I may have made it up.
EDIT: I think Steve in Pudsey has a better memory of this story in his post below.
I have a Chrismas pre-record from 2000 where Johnny says "Here's Gemma Woodman with the news and weather" and we cut to Jasmine Lowson who says the correct date and everything.
This is why rota threads are important. Vaughan could have checked TV Forum to see who was due to present.
Commissioned by Planet 24 to write dialogue and sketches for The Bigger Breakfast. A daily 5 hour roadshow special from 26th to 30th April 1997. Presented by Denise Van Outen and Richard Orford.
That's wrong, then. It didn't happen until the May.
I expect he probably started writing before the show was broadcast. He didn't just get up at 4am on the Monday and start writing then.
Started the May half term with Richard and Denise, who then became the main presenters of The Big Breakfast briefly with Rick kicked out on to the road before Johnny did a two week guest stint with Denise (and the rest is history).
Bigger Breakfast wise it was Richard and Denise in the summer until Jayne stepped in at the end for two weeks. Then Mel and Richard did The Bigger Breakfast in October and February (Zig and Zag hosted something over Christmas - think it was called "Zig and Zag's Big Morning"). Ant and Dec co-hosted The Bigger Breakfast with Mel during Easter 1998, then from May 1998 Ben Shephard joined and the show moved to a 9am start, with The Big Breakfast remaining on air from 7-9am. Then at some point Josie and Dermot took over.
For the Christmas pre-records, it was slightly different for the whole show between 8am and 10am. I think this is because it was being generated live by Channel 4 continuity, rather than by the show itself. (The show obviously couldn't provide a clock live as nobody was there to do it.)
I think I read a story which was that C4 were feeding everything to the BB House where the clock was added and sent back to C4. They had left everything set up, unattended, over Christmas, but the kit failed during transmission one morning. Channel 4 put the recordings to air directly and later managed to add an alternative clock.
I think I read a story which was that C4 were feeding everything to the BB House where the clock was added and sent back to C4. They had left everything set up, unattended, over Christmas, but the kit failed during transmission one morning. Channel 4 put the recordings to air directly and later managed to add an alternative clock.
