I thought it looked rather messy there with everyone piled onto the sofa.
I agree. It seemed like they were on the sofa just to show off how many people they have working on it rather than to bring something to the
TOTH.
One main niggle is that many of the pieces are only one sentence long, such as the correspondent introductions and all the regional news.
Adrian will use more words introducing Lucy than Lucy will actually say in her intro.
"Lucy is our weather women, what's in store in the weather today Lucy?"
"It's going to be a windy day across the UK"
"Kate's here also with the..."
It was very noticable on the regional news, extend the stories to at least two sentances please!
The regional news needs to be extended to 3 minutes and there should be another bulletin at 7:45 (& 8.15), who came up with the idea of having the last bulletin at 7:15? All the crews and presenters will still be there I expect!
The introductions at the TOTH were also made worse because of this, as you said. One sentence introductions and 'in brief' segments sound very clumsy. 7:15 is a very strange time to have the last regional news bulletin. There should at least be another at 7:45.
It seems there's a new introduction the newsreaders have to use for the regional news:- "Your local travel and weather is less than a minute away, first the Daybreak headlines here in the <insert region name> region" - or slight variations on this.
That got on my nerves. Not only are the bulletins too short but they're taken up by such a long-winded, pointless introduction. A simple 'Good morning' would suffice, bringing more time for news.
The titles are fine, they're nice, but the music just ends so clunkily. Why can't it go into a nice bed for the studio shot?
I agree - the titles are quite nice and suprisingly not cheesy for live shots of people - but the way the titles end, there's a little pause, and then a sting into the studio is very odd. Would be much nicer if it went into a bed.
I'm not keen on the graphics at all. They look cheap and I think if they were a mock on here people would slate them. It's very strange how the name strap doesn't line up with the clock.
Haven't seen it today but looking at the clips of yesterday's Lorraine, she ought not to walk into the studio at the start - it looks like she's marching to the music and I actually laughed when I saw it.
Daybreakers and this whole 5 thing was a bit cringy, as was the live shots during the weather. I don't think the show can make up its mind whether it's news or fluff. It seemed to jump about a bit too much - one minute they're talking to John Stapleton about some "serious" news, then they're doing the Daybreakers, then looking at some strange car and then interviewing Tony Blair.
Not too keen on the way Adrian and Dan stand at the sports desk - think they're going for the "men standing at the bar talking sport" look?
Other than that I thought it was okay. It's not as good as I think it's been bigged up to be and I won't be leaving Breakfast personally.
Isn't it fine for ex prime ministers to be referred to as prime ministers, same with American presidents?
I might be wrong but I think it should be ex- or former prime minister.
Also, interesting to note that 2 and a half hours of Daybreak got a longer montage than 17 years of GMTV...
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