The Big Breakfast

I remember him! I remember some interesting msn messenger group conversations with the BB community back then! I was only 13 at the time.

He ran a few BB fansites, I think The BB Resources Site, The Brekkie Network and then BBMB.

Yes the name seemed familiar.

Also from this dance song:
... that I remember them being performed around the 2001 relaunch of the big breakfast.

i would love a reboot of this show

Believe me, you wouldn't.

I think a reboot is different to a relaunch. A reboot would take all the best aspects from the programme's format, whereas a relaunch throws a lot of stuff out and replaces it with new stuff.

And also, if that 2001 relaunch had better presenters, it would have killed.

What would a Channel 4 breakfast show even look like now? Sunday Brunch but earlier?

Honestly, as unlikely as the whole scenario is, if Channel 4 ever went back to breakfast I think it would only be a Big Breakfast revival.

Agree and still think they bailed out too early. Unlike 1996 there were a few positives with the 2001 relaunch, one of them being the return to short snappy features like it was in the early days (segments had got longer during the JV era).

Paul Tonkinson wasn't too bad either - he just wasn't Johnny.

Donna Air and the fact all three would talk over the top of each other were issues with that relaunch.


What did The Big Breakfast used to do on Christmas Day, as it a pre record or not on air. I know they would air 8-10 generally over Christmas which was a great idea that nobody has ever copied (obvious reasons why ITV don't)

If Christmas Eve was a weekday would they be live?

Usually Christmas Eve was live then the next six shows pre-recorded (usually Christmas Day through to New Years Day), usually with reviews of the year replacing the news. They did try to do live inserts of the news on the Bank Holiday after the Millennium (and of course were live on New Years Eve) but as a different newsreader to who should have been on duty was reading them they couldn't get away with it.

I might be wrong but I've a feeling they did a live Christmas Day show in the very early years (92 or 93), and I think also at least once they aired on Christmas Day when it fell on a weekend. As you said they usually air 8-10am over Christmas - they probably would be airing 8-10am this week if they were on air as I guess much of the target audience (teens, students etc.) would all be off.