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The new BIG BREAKFAST on C4 (January 2005)

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JA
jay Founding member
Can't beleive this hasn't been mentioned yet!

Russell Brand, host of last year's Big Brother's EFourum is set to become the new face of Breakfast telly - on CHANNEL 4 .

Digital Spy posted:
Comedian Russell Brand has been picked to front Channel 4's new morning show, The Sun reports today.

The presenter, who has previously hosted Big Brother's EFourum and Kings Of Comedy, is being lined up as the network's "new face of breakfast TV."

Called The Good, The Bad and The Early, the new show - said to be in the style of The Big Breakfast - is expected to launch this Spring.
IS
Isonstine Founding member
I'm so glad that the Big Breakfast is coming back. Rolling Eyes
JC
JCB
Quote:
Called The Good, The Bad and The Early, the new show - said to be in the style of The Big Breakfast
Yay Rolling Eyes
BR
Brekkie
I'd just logged in to post a thread asking how C4's current breakfast line-up was rating.

The Good - there will finally be an alternative in the mornings. RI:SE was no BB, but it was an alternative.

The Bad - Russell Brand, couldn't stand him on EFourum.

The Early - is this possibly a working title, as The Good, The Bad and the Early gives critics far too much amunition!
BO
boring_user_name
Oh great, another breakfast programme hosted by some macho ego-maniac and (most probably) bimbo sidekick.
Rolling Eyes

Channel 4 should have used this opportunity to launch an excitingly analytical, intellectual breakfast programme. No programme currently provides this. They instead concentrate on irrelevant celebrity stories and/or sensationalist investigations.
Surely, I can't be the only person with a desire for a breakfast programme featuring detailed analysis of news and scientific developments, presented by intelligent people with the ability to correctly speak English.
One example of this poor grammar is the constant use of "it's been". It use could be eliminated in the vast majority of instances if journalists could just construct sentances more intelligently.
DA
DAS Founding member
I'm surprised about the Russell Brand bit. He's a highly acquired taste - I personally think he's brilliant. He was very funny on MTV doing those late night things where he walked round music festivals and was generally odd to people. But I can't see him being too successful at breakfast unless people get used to him quickly...
JA
jay Founding member
DAS posted:
I'm surprised about the Russell Brand bit. He's a highly acquired taste - I personally think he's brilliant. He was very funny on MTV doing those late night things where he walked round music festivals and was generally odd to people. But I can't see him being too successful at breakfast unless people get used to him quickly...


Couldn't agree with you more!

This is a risk for Channel 4 - RI:SE totally flopped, and now they're coming back with this show with a man who takes a bit of getting used to. This could make or break him. People might latch on to his style and begin to really love him, or they could just hate him from the start.
GR
gregmc
Wouldnt Paul O Grady make a good host on a Big Breakfast type show?
MO
morgaineofevil
i hope this is 100% true that channel 4 are finally bringing the big breakfast under a new name!
its been 3 years now and deservess to be re vamped and re introduced with new ideas
i hope its no wind up!
oh and happy new year
SP
Steve in Pudsey
gregmc posted:
Wouldnt Paul O Grady make a good host on a Big Breakfast type show?


Doing celebrity interviews, perhaps on a bed?
MI
Mich Founding member
gregmc posted:
Wouldnt Paul O Grady make a good host on a Big Breakfast type show?


Erm no, IMHO a far too irritating voice early on in the morning.

morgaineofevil posted:
i hope this is 100% true that channel 4 are finally bringing the big breakfast under a new name!
its been 3 years now and deservess to be re vamped and re introduced with new ideas
i hope its no wind up!
oh and happy new year


Don't get too excited, it said Big Breakfast style, not Big Breakfast. I'd love TBB to return, but an alternative, irreverant programme will do for the time being.
KA
Katherine Founding member
Horse, dead and flogging.

Nuff said.

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