The advert now states that the show starts on Monday 14th September at 6.30pm.
I can't help but think that starting at 6.30 is a bit of a bad, or at least strange move. I just think starting at a TOTH such as 6pm, or 7pm would be better.
It will also be interesting to see the set, which will be in the current Five News studio. We know theres no windows or anything, and it seems common in the UK for chat shows or gossip shows to have a skyline backdrop. Just look at GMTV & The Wright Stuff.
It's starting at 6.30pm to give it a half-hour lead over the one show. However, it will be going head to head with BBC regional news, ITV News and even Hollyoaks at that time, once Strictly.. It Takes Two returns I can't see what audience will be left to watch?
It's starting at 6.30pm to give it a half-hour lead over the one show. However, it will be going head to head with BBC regional news, ITV News and even Hollyoaks at that time, once Strictly.. It Takes Two returns I can't see what audience will be left to watch?
It's also to capitalise on the ratings of the Neighbours/Home & Away soap hour, which they have been desperate to do for a while.
It's starting at 6.30pm to give it a half-hour lead over the one show. However, it will be going head to head with BBC regional news, ITV News and even Hollyoaks at that time, once Strictly.. It Takes Two returns I can't see what audience will be left to watch?
It does seem stupid, anyone who wants to watch that kind of thing will already be watching BBC or ITV News?! Surely it would make more sense to have it at 5pm or 8pm?
Another Channel 5 programme which will get some mediawatchers excited... but leave viewers and the rest of the tv industry completely cold.
Let's be clear. It will have no effect on the ratings of the BBC regional news programmes or the increasingly assured One Show whatsoever. It's clearly aimed at a different audience, though there's obviously some crossover with the remit of the One Show.
Indeed I'll bet on ratings of less than 500,000 once the dust settles... probably far less... just like Five News at 7 with its 200,000 eyeballs.
Love how Dawn A is returning Five to its roots as bargain basement tv. Nearly all the signs of its move towards respectability a few years back have gone. Basically now, once again, it's footie, films and - no I won't say it... but cheap tosh the rest of the time!!!
When they first announced earlier in the year the show, i though ok it might work. But after the presenters were announced, the type of show and timeslot - I honestly can't see it doing well. I think when it was first announced it was to be styled on Fox and Friends, people thought news - so did I. Fox and Friends is a morning show where the presenters (who I think, presume are trained journalists with lots of experience) discuss the main morning news, debate issues, and a bit like any other morning show. Well Five would never pull that, the only thing they have copied i guess will be three presenters chatting about showbiz stories i guess. Probably would have been easier to extend Milkshake in the morning and move The Wright Stuff to 5pm.
LFSF sounds like a way for Five to scrap their 7pm New without actually scrapping it because it's the weak link in the schedule as the 6.30 and 7.30 shows don't do that badly and since Corrie left Wednesdays, the 7.30 shows have increased their audience.
To me, it looks like Loose Women crossed with The One Show.
Hmm - not sure Ian Wright is the right person to front this at all. I'd misread all the bumph and thought it was MATTHEW Wright (who stood in for Adrian Chiles on The One Show a year or so ago)
If anything Melinda Messenger is the best of the line-up. She may have started as a glamour model, but she's nobody's fool, and has a warm and friendly on-screen persona.
Be interesting to see what the format is. Can't see it doing the art, science, history and natural history stuff that The One Show does - but the consumer, current affairs and more on-the-day stuff may have some cross over. Doubt that Five have a similar budget either...
We know theres no windows or anything, and it seems common in the UK for chat shows or gossip shows to have a skyline backdrop. Just look at GMTV & The Wright Stuff.
GMTV doesn't have any windows onto the outside world, and the Wright Stuff spent several years without windows. There's nothing to stop Five from adding a virtual window into their set, or one from bits of set GMTV style. A sufficiently realistic window and skyline backdrop can be added with two flats, taking less than 5 minutes to position.