'Freshly Squeezed' - New CH4 Breakfast Show

3rd time lucky maybe?

From 'The Mirror'



Sounds a bit more appealing then the absolutely dire 'Morning Glory'

Well its something different then from your typical news magazine show. Not my cup of tea though.

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The personality-free hosts will let it down I imagine. Could be a decent show otherwise.

Not everyone wants to wake up to music only either.

Personally i thought RI:SE was their best breakfast show, even better than the Big Breakfast.

a 30 minute music show at 7am? Hardly seems worth it really.

It's hardly a 'new breakfast show', it just means they're saving money by simulcasting E4Music for half an hour. I'd assume B4 has been dropped since it's the same type of show, only made by someone else. Not happy about keeping the presenters though, Hendy and Edwards annoy the hell out of me.

RI:SE wasn't a patch on the BIG Breakfast, particularly v2.0. It was DI:RE SH:TE. And Ian (Goofy TW:AT) Lee co-hosted it!

Let's reflect . . . the BIG Breakfast had it's ups and downs, but lasted nearly ten years, despite several presenter lineups
and a couple of relaunches that were eventually reversed. At least two of the BB's presenting duos will always be fondly
remembered, those being the originals, Chris and Gaby, then Johnny and Denise a few years later.

Meanwhile, the BB's replacement RI:SE (v1.0) ran for about eight months, and was slowly, but gradually becoming a
watchable program, and an almost acceptable replacement (despite a crap set) for it's long running predecessor.

But then that format got axed, and RI:SE (v2.0) came along soon after. You could tell Ch4 was regretting their decision
to axe the BIG Breakfast, since RI:SE (v2.0) was almost a total rip-off, complete with two trying-to-be-wacky hosts,
perched in front of a set of double doors in a very similar way to the old "french windows" format of the BB.

They even had live outside broadcast segments not totally dissimilar to the BB's "Down Your Doorstep" feature.

Ch4 might as well have gone the whole hog, and converted another set of canalside cottages into a TV studio!

I oved RI:SE especially Zora, but when Ian Lee started to show he couldn't control himself, when he made racist jokes and swore, it seemed the show had had its day.

I did like Rise, the first version. If i recall it was presented by :
Mark Durden-Smith, Kirsty Gallagher, Edith Bowman and that scottish bloke.

I didnt mind Ian Lee, but it seems all they covered was BB4 (at the time) and chatting to the evicted housemates for ages.

Why doesnt Channel 4 just simulcast one hour of E4 Music?

You know I loved the Big Breakfast, but looking back I'm glad it ended when it did and I wouldn't want my memories ruined by a comeback!

Nice to see C4 are still willing to try something different at breakfast - though I think it be better off an hour-long.

A 30-minute programme suggests you sit and watch the whole programme, while in reality with most breakfast programmes you drop in and out of them throughout the morning.


Talking of E4 Music, I wonder if it'll get a new look when it returns after Big Brother.

To be honest, they could have kept it running in the E4 breakfast slot during BB as the housemates generally are not woken up till around 10am.

My memories of Ri:se, The first programme had Marc Duddon Smith pisssing off for a pi:ss whilst the last programme had 4 people making the worlds biggest people pile

I found the first version was too static with that tiny set and the second version just ended up like big breakfast in a different studio, now used for the wright stuff. I missed the outside games in the garden

so this new show is going to be location based, sounds fun, 'it's 7am and today we're live from scunthorpe'

(appologies to those living in scun:thorpe, apparently the silly forum censor thinks it's a rude word because of the letters c.u.n.t in the middle)

Is that set used for the Wright Stuff? Looks bigger. I hate to say this but aren't Channel Four a little obsessed with music programmes. RI:SE was good because it had a balance, and only a small bit of news that was easy to take in at that time or morning.