Daybreak - the launch onwards

Here, here.
Whilst occasionally it is nice to see some fantasy schedules, the ones posted here are unrealistic.

Her name is CHRISTINE!

He calls her Christine in that same post further on, so obviously the first 'Christie' is just a typo. Calm down.

im sorry for making a mistake.. im only human after all! just ask the daybreak production team if they have ever made a mistake.. jeeez

Not exactly the best thread to post this in but I noticed former GMTV newsreader Priya Kaur-Jones was presenting the news on France 24 this afternoon.

Random reply. But I've recently re read the first few pages of this thread. Seems that the majority of people enjoyed it, even if it was just the first programme. It makes me ask the question why the programme didn't continue like this.

It wasn't working and forums are hardly representative of the viewing public at large.

There is also another possibility that the producers didn't have patience to see if the programme's audiences eventually built and increased with the original format.

I don't remember an over-whelming love the original format - if anything people criticised it - but then compared to what it changed to, I think people then looked back at the original programme fondly.

There wasn't really any editorial shift until after the October half term. During the first few weeks the ratings completely collapsed and it was critically panned. That's why they eventually started to make changes and the audience creeped back up.

But even though it's now basically GMTV with windows, viewers are not there as strong as they want. It may have taken months, but people may have come around to the different style programming.

Ben Shepherd was talking about GMTV on ok!tv tonight. He said that he doesn't get chance to watch daybreak, has enjoyed the bits that he's seen. And discussed how viewers find it hard to move on from such a brand like GMTV. Though if daybreak had begun last September everything the same, but with the GMTV name, would things have worked better? Or were they right to move themselves away from the GMTV brand?

Ben makes a valid point; there is even still animosity towards GMTV for taking over TVAM. I'm not sure if things would have been any different had the GMTV name remained but the revamp still happened. It depends if things were handled in the same way with the public axings and hirings. It wasn't just the brand that GMTV viewers were loyal to, but the presenters as well.

Its not groundbreaking news but its worth mentioning, this morning during the 7.15 Granada regional news, there was no clock on screen, a clock quickly flashed up but it was a 'Lorraine' clock (something I've never seen on regional news). That quickly went off and then replaced with the usual Daybreak clock. Its not on the scale of their usual cock ups, but worth mentioning anyway.

I don't know about current ratings but watching recently the content seems to have shifted to a more news agenda with more news content than GMTV and less stupid stuff.