Daybreak - the launch onwards

I think another problem with the show is the amount of Regional news. BBC Breakfast has local news just before the TOTH and inserts at half past the hour. If Daybreak want's to get more viewers, more local news would seem a good place to start. Instead of 'your local travel and weather is only one minute away but first the Daybreak headlines in the INSERT NAME HERE region' have a longer local bulletin that lasts a couple of minutes and has time to look in depth with the main local news story.

Perhaps it might be easier if we had two Daybreak threads, one called "Daybreak; ITV's new breakfast show" for sensible discussion and the other called "OMG I love Daybreak, it's so perfect even though its haemorrhaging viewers lulz" for jdav and chums.

(Perhaps a third one for those who mainly enjoy wetting themselves trying to extract nuggets of information from the GMTV staffers)

I honestly have tried several times with Daybreak, I could stand GMTV even though I thought it was fluff but if something really boring or sport came on Breakfast I could flick over. But daybreak just feels like it is melting my brain slowly and if I don't turn it over quick enough it'll run out my ear

The set now just looks a mess, I appreciate the old one was stylish but cold, but shoehorning all these bits of red and yellow in just won't work. It needs a complete rethink.

It's a pity Channel 4 won't rise (sorry) to the challenge of providing an alternative.

I'm not making this up:


I'm sorry, I like the team of presenters and I WANT to like Daybreak, but it just seems to be going down the wrong route again. Adrian said in an interview the launch programme was 'the biggest pile of ****' or something along those lines. Doesn't he feel like an item about a dog wearing glasses is just as bad?

The structure of the programme is just mad. Surely the main presenters need to introduce the main news story at the TOTH, even GMTV did that. Currently, Adrian and Christine spend about 5 minutes or even less introducing a short VT about the top story at some strange time like :40. Some days they don't even talk about the top story at all unless it's featured in 'In The Mix' or the headlines, which both really aren't hugely informative. I really think they just need to bunk up a bit more with regards to news. Tasmin's slot isn't enough. We can see Christine, and more so Adrian, can handle a discussion or an interview with some gravitas, so why not feature more MPs, etc on the show?

With all due respect, but isn't that ridiculous and lame in itself? It smacks of " Dear Viewers. We don't know what to do next. Please write the scripts for us so that we can't be blamed for putting out more mediocre content ."

We need to bring back the famous five: Parkinson. Ford. Rippon. Kee. And the 5th one, who's name I can't remember.........

Frost

They can't be that famous!

It was supposed to be a more upmarket programme with emphasis on serious news and journalism. If the same format GMTV had in its final weeks was retained but with the new set and presenters, Daybreak probably wouldn't be in the mess its in. I did like Daybreak and I thought it turned a corner especially around New Year but now its just The One Show at 6am. The main problem as already pointed out is that there is no solid structure beyond 20 past each hour.

According to Granada Reports on Facebook, Fred Talbot will be presenting Daybreak Weather all of this week, and that on GR later in the week there'll be some behind the scenes stuff.

Several commenters have spotted on this Facebook screenshot of Daybreak from when Peter Kay is on, that the presenters seem to have an 'X' on the sofa to denote where they sit:

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The One Show does too, their's is dark green tape though.

Is it? Are you sure? Evidence required please...

(There's certainly nothing on the bits you sit on - as can be clearly seen when a guest walks on and is greeted by the presenters standing up)

The One Show designed their current (and previous - though not their first) sofas with a middle section that doesn't have a back, to effectively define where the presenters and guests sit. The presenters usually sit on a shorter sofa section than the guest(s), and that doesn't leave the presenters much scope for movement...

Pretty sure there was! To the iPlayer!