The Big Breakfast

Today's news about Paul Ross is a bit off the map, isn't it..?!

And surely a coincidence that it appeared thee same week that his brother returned to host a programme at the BBC.....

Nice 1999 interview with Douglas Adams, plugging the launch of h2g2:



and a chat with someone called Steve Bennett in the garden:


via the marvellous VHiStory

Steve Bennett's a proper legend. And bonkers.

Without taking the thread too off topic, where was the first incarnation of RI:SE filmed at?

Sky's studio complex I think.

"A high-tech studio in Hounslow." to quote the presenter at the time of the first show.


Yes, IIRC it was broadcast from Sky's studios since it was a co-production between Sky and Princess Productions.

Yes it is just a coincidence. It was the Mail who led all the Sachsgate stuff anyway.

Had a go at an extended 1997 theme:

https://soundcloud.com/matgo/big-breakfast-1997-extended-mix

Can anyone identify the font used on the 2001 house flyout graphics? I know they used a variant of Franklin Gothic for straps and menu's but the font on the end titles doesn't match Franklin Gothic.

Would The Big Breakfast have done an extended show today if the show was still on air? Or would it have been business as usual?

Yes!