Daybreak - the launch onwards

I was thinking Julie Etchingham as well but just thought Mary could do a better job of it.

Just reading the presenters thread over in The Newsroom. There's one name who has suddenly sprung to mind, who has enough news gravitas, as well as an excellent sense of humor, and who would be a good partner for Lorraine Kelly:

McCoy!

Does anybody have the video of Lorraine from TLS 7

They were axed because they were both flops in the eyes of the public and ITV breakfast would never recover with them at the helm. Sometimes it's better to cut your losses and move on.

Lorraine Kelly + Gethin Jones + Hassled mums doesn't exactly equal an newsier approach to me if anything it's the opposite. It seems to me that they plan to go straight for the Housewives with Kids demo rather than the general audience.

People keep saying that David Kermode will bring an newsier feel because he edited Breakfast but they forget his last two shows were OK TV and Live at Studio Five, which he also created




I'm sure Julie would love to leave award winning News at Ten where she recently intervied Christine Lagarde to move to Daybreak where she can interview Nanny Pat from Towie for the 4th time in a year !

Isn't it utterly petty that Daybreak strategically didn't show the front page of The Sun this morning, which featured a front page story about The Voice's ratings triumph over Britain's Got Talent? This is amounting to some form of censorship and it's completely childish.

I understand not advertising and plugging the show on a rival network overly, but surely viewers deserve to have a rounded look at the front pages of newspapers, even if the news is not in favour of the line of ITV and their shows.

In fairness to Daybreak - have you read the tripe the Sun wrote? I looked at their online page - "Simon says he'll ditch his Mr Nasty persona", says 'an insider'. "He will now be demanding the producers make the show better" they speculate; "He's known as a perfectionist in everything he does" says nobody at all.

They even manage to mangle his tweet by chopping out who it was addressed to.

The final sentence from his spokesman, "Simon was happy with the ratings", is probably the closest thing to truth they manage, and they probably made that up too.

The Sun is a big bag of lies and garbage. Who cares what they write.

Absolutely agree with what you say about The Sun, Gavin, but I guess this paper may interest even some of the Daybreak viewership. I neither watch Daybreak nor read the Sun, I should point out. It should still have been shown though.

Why? Did they show The Sport or Socialist Worker?

Well obviously not. I'm referring to a newspaper that they would ordinarily show any other day.

And is indeed the biggest selling newspaper in the country.

Has any regional opts failed during Daybreak and what do they show when regional news is on?

When the Scottish News opt failed, we had the Daybreak bumpers on loop - I can't remember if the theme was played.