I think with Christine Bleakley it all comes down to how much she likes early mornings - though of course she'd like them a lot more with the salary ITV are offering.
Even if ITV chew her up and spit her out, she's probably never going to get an offer like that again as she's just not that good a presenter. If she did re-sign for the BBC for a fee in the hundreds of thousands rather than millions I doubt ITV or anyone else would be waiting for her when the new contract is up. ITV only want her now as part of a partnership - if Chiles wasn't on board I doubt any offer to Bleakley would be anywhere near as lucrative - if indeed the offer was there at all.
I've been thinking about this name. Mainly as I'm not a fan of daybreak for a title & most probably because I've got too much time on my hands.
Couldn't they go for the name that Channel 4 went for beck in the late 80's, and call it ITV Daily for the full title, maybe referring to it as Daily on the programme. Though I suppose this could be in similar vein to calling it simply ITV Day. But daily does relate to it running Mon - Fri, have that relation to newspaper titles & could combine all elements under this name.
Alternatively if people deem 'the Breakfast Show' relates too much to radio, how about simple calling it 'Breakfast TV'?
Breakfast TV is too close to what the BBC use. I reckon they'd call it something like Today if there wasn't a well known radio programme that uses that title.
'Day' sounds like the sort of name a barely lucid celebrity would call their newborn baby.
'ITV Anything' is silly because 99% of people don't know that the 6 - 9.25 slot is technically a separate channel. So from their point of view it would be a programme called ITV Anything on ITV1. Which is just senseless.
I'm starting to think ITV should keep the GMTV name.
'Day' sounds like the sort of name a barely lucid celebrity would call their newborn baby.
'ITV Anything' is silly because 99% of people don't know that the 6 - 9.25 slot is technically a separate channel. So from their point of view it would be a programme called ITV Anything on ITV1. Which is just senseless.
I'm starting to think ITV should keep the GMTV name.
Yeah but the BBC call 'Breakfast' 'BBC Breakfast'.... I suppose it all depends on if it falls under the news umbrella. If so, it's not exactly unusual to have a news and current affairs programme with the name of the channel before it.
'ITV Anything' is silly because 99% of people don't know that the 6 - 9.25 slot is technically a separate channel. So from their point of view it would be a programme called ITV Anything on ITV1. Which is just senseless.
Yes, just like ITV News on ITV1, ITV Weather on ITV1, ITV Nightscreen on ITV1. Senseless!
'ITV Anything' is silly because 99% of people don't know that the 6 - 9.25 slot is technically a separate channel. So from their point of view it would be a programme called ITV Anything on ITV1. Which is just senseless.
Yes, just like ITV News on ITV1, ITV Weather on ITV1, ITV Nightscreen on ITV1. Senseless!
ITV News and ITV Weather are perceived as being departments within ITV.
'ITV Anything' is silly because 99% of people don't know that the 6 - 9.25 slot is technically a separate channel. So from their point of view it would be a programme called ITV Anything on ITV1. Which is just senseless.
Yes, just like ITV News on ITV1, ITV Weather on ITV1, ITV Nightscreen on ITV1. Senseless!
ITV News and ITV Weather are perceived as being departments within ITV.
Where does it stop though? ITV This Morning, ITV Loose Women, ITV Countrywise...
Errm because it would be deemed a news programme and news programmes tend to be branded with the channel name throughout the world? Or atleast name checked 'from NBC News' etc etc.
Yep - there's a real difference between a programme name (This Morning, Midsomer Murders) and output from a department (ITV News, ITV Weather, ITV Sport) etc.