Big Breakfast Axed

AL

alexanderlebbon 1 July 2001 7:02pm

Quote:

The Big Breakfast has been axed after 8 years. It'll come off air at the beginning of next year, but a replacement has yet to be found. The programme has suffered in recent months from exceptionally porr viewing figures - in February the audience figures dropped to an all time low of 290,000- only a 5.6 % share of the audience

Are you really suprised.

SN

SkyNews 1 July 2001 7:07pm

It's been known for weeks. I read this morning somewhere that Chris Evans will probably suprise us, come full circle, and present the BB til the end of its run.

[i]Careful - this post will probably be moved!!!

IT

itsrobert Founding member 1 July 2001 7:26pm

No, its perfectly fine here - the moderators have drawn up guidelines as to when and where posts should be moved.

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 1 July 2001 8:36pm

Channel 4 are looking for a replacement, however they have invited the Big Breakfast to come up with revised show plans, so in all likelyhood, it may stay albeit in a different format.

MI

Mich Founding member 1 July 2001 8:56pm

Its old news, and sensationalist reporting, the brekkie may stay with or without modifications, so to say that its been axed is stupid, C4 have three options, do nothing, change the brekkie, get a new show, and it will be months before a decision is made.

SN

SkyNews 2 July 2001 12:35am

C4 should just replace the Big Breakfast with T4 breakfast but including the news, Liquid News style.

(Edited by SkyNews at 12:36 am on July 2, 2001)

JA

Jamez 2 July 2001 12:51am

I could host a show for them called 'James @ Breakfast'.

heres my running order:

7.00 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me sleeping
7.15 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me sleeping
7.30 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me waking up, getting out of bed, going into the bathroom (but theres no bath in there), filling my glass with water from the tap, drinking it, and getting back into bed
7.45 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me sleeping
8.00 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me sleeping
8.15 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me sleeping
8.30 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me sleeping
8.45 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me sleeping
9.00 - shows a live shot of my bedroom, and me getting up, hiding the porn mags which are scattered around my room, opening the curtains, getting washed & dressed, then go and harrass my neighbours by conecting my PC to the hi-fi, hanging the speaker out of my window, and playing the news 24 - 90 second countdown VERY loudly!

DA

DAS Founding member 2 July 2001 11:56am

I see! So gone are the days of playing garage music really loud - instead its the theme to BBC News 24! I'm not quite sure what the neighbours' reaction would be if I did it

MI

Mich Founding member 2 July 2001 5:56pm

SkyNews posted:

C4 should just replace the Big Breakfast with T4 breakfast but including the news, Liquid News style.

(Edited by SkyNews at 12:36 am on July 2, 2001)

Liquid news ok, but T4???? Its awful, there's only so many cheap american imports that they can buy up, T4 is awful and C4 have said they don't want to replace the Big Brekkie with T4 anyway.

SE

Square Eyes Founding member 5 July 2001 7:26pm

I see MTV are putting in proposals to C4 for a replacement Breakfast show. As long as it doesn't include Richard Blackwood I'll be happy.

Big Breakfast Axed

(July 2001)