Daybreak - the launch onwards

The original Big Breakfast was more of a sleeper hit. It really took off in 1993 (the last time exactly what is happening now previously happened).

Interesting Christine won the Cosmo 'Ultimate TV Presenter' award last night. To be honest, I think she's quite good, but does need to be given a few more lines on the autocue and she needs to be a more prominent figure in the interviews. But I've warmed to her and I do think, if Adrian were to go, her and Dan would work great together.

Also ratings were at 800,000 yesterday. Not bad, I think that's just a little higher than GMTV's average?

Daybreak host Christine Bleakley has defended the show's poor ratings, describing it as a "teething problem".

Figures released last week showed average viewer numbers fell to about 600,000 - a third of the audience for its rival BBC Breakfast.

"It's unfortunate other people don't quite believe in us yet," she said.

Bleakley was speaking at the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Of The Year awards where she won an award for TV presenting.

"It's a tough sort of job and we always knew it was going to be and that's not a shock to us at all," she said.

"Any wee show has its teething problems and that's kind of how we see it."

At its launch in September, one million viewers tuned in to the morning show but have slipped since.

An ITV spokesman said last week: "After over five years of decline for GMTV, Daybreak is already closing the gap in year-on-year decline after just one month, with housewives and children, male and younger audiences."

He added the broadcaster looked forward "to building on this start and welcoming new audiences".

Initial overnight figures for Tuesday 2 November showed that Daybreak's viewing figures lifted slightly to an average of 800,000 viewers, while 1.7 million tuned into BBC Breakfast.

Interesting - I had not read anywhere that the ratings had increased to 800,000 - as I have said previously, the media were never going to give Daybreak positive press and are making it sound worse than it is.

Out of interest, where can you find out what the ratings for a show are?

I think Bleakley's lying through her teeth.

...and it's polls are relevant how exactly?

Well according to this Adrian's about to get another show as well :

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3210902/Adrian-Chiles-to-get-ITV-chatshow.html

And of course the reason he left the BBC was because they were offering him his own chat show (Chris Evans was offered the Friday nights because Adrian's chatshow was pencilled in for Friday nights)

I find it strange that you use that as a defence for Daybreak, considering only 34 people voted for Daybreak, and you could easily vote more than once. I can imagine ginofish sat over half term clicking Daybreak about twenty times.




Alright Cross Channel - no need to sound so smug that you know something poor Ben didn't...