SImon, are you seriously suggesting you would rather watch Pages from Teletext on 4 when you're getting ready for work than a TV programme?
Well a nice bit of music always used to set me up for the day before school. Once 4-Tel made way for breakfast TV, BBC2 stepped into the breach with breakfast Ceefax.
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Simon, you need to speak with someone professional (be it a psychologist or a prostitute) soon.
Well a nice bit of music always used to set me up for the day before school. Once 4-Tel made way for breakfast TV, BBC2 stepped into the breach with breakfast Ceefax.
I can appreciate the music thing (I have a soft spot for VH1 Classic in the morning), but why can't you just listen to some CDs and put your TV onto the page where it scrolls through the headlines.
You could even do the announcements beforehand.....
"Now on BBC Luxton, Pages From Ceefax. Please note that the BBC does endorse any particular brand of toilet tissue for any 'accidents' caused during this transmission."
The line-up doesn't sound too bad, it's an improvement of RI:SE at the moment, but do we really need The Salon at breakfast? I preferred the line-up they had in January this year, Futurama, Music and some T4 crap and to be honest it wasn't that bad.
Oh well I'm not bothered about Friends repeats, they're funny. (Up to about Series 6 anyway)
Plus when The Salon ends we might get something different in it's place.
I would much rather see a line up like this than see a completely 'New' 2 hour Breakfast show, it would just be the same thing, but would probably end up copying the Big Brekkie which would be awful IMO. For someone my age (16) this is a decent line up, across all the channels in the morning you get
Breakfast - Not my thing, but Bill and Sian are more watchable than Dermot and Natasha
GMTV Today - Can't stand it, especially Fiona Philips
RI:SE - Again can't stand it, gave it up after the second day of RI:SE MK II I thought it was that bad
CBBC and Milkshake - They're for little kids and I can't stand most kids shows
Sky - It's all animae or all for little kids, people who adore Teleshopping or B Movies, the first decent show is on at 9.00am IMO. But the music channels are worth a flick through.
Though myself and many who can't stand RI:SE will probably welcome the move, they'll probably even get slightly higher viewing figures.
How come The Simpsons isn't in that lineup well when it moves to Channel 4. I think it would be great to show in the morning oh well not a bad lineup I'm glad Channel 4 aren't bothering with a replacement for rise it probably wouldn't have done much better.
If C4 was trawling through its old US comedy box, I'd love to see Kate & Allie, Alice and The Golden Girls. I do like Bewitched but its now on so often its daft. Same goes for I Dream of Jeanie.
I'm not surprised, but am hugely disappointed by the number of Friends reruns c4 are showing over Christmas. It seems to be on for blocks of two hours on most days, and sometimes it gets a fifth episode shown at 6pm.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for Cheers to return in the new year to show the remaining two series. I'm not entirely sure why they are showing dribs and drabs of Frasier at lunchtimes at the moment, perhaps those of us who enjoy our lunch by a tv will have that to watch come January. Hope not.
Surely RI:SE would be much better than just showing 2 hours worth of repeats which isn't going to work anyway as most people don't have time to sit down for half an hour solid to watch something in the morning. I really can't see this lineup increasing the amount of viewers.
OK RI:SE was really bad to start with and still isn't perfect yet, but it's getting better and better all the time. I think if it was given another year and they made a few changes it could do much better, and save having to come up with a fresh idea in a couple of years time when C4 try to do a live show again
... or how about bringing back The Bigger Breakfast? That way C4 could still screen the Salon and Friends but with Bigger Breakfast links, games etc. in between. Or it could always be a two hour Big Breakfast with two 30 min shows included, meaning that only an hour of BB would have to be prepared each day, so hopefully it wouldn't get stale (again)!
Personally I have no problem with the new C4 breakfast lineup... Maybe they'll rotate the shows so that e.g. Futurama, Maybe its Me etc get screened while others (Raymond, Salon etc) are 'on hiatus' as they say? And is this the first time Raymond's been on outside Paramount channel?
Just curious, When Big Bro 5 starts, do folk think its likely that it will be on 4 in the mornings and not just E4? Or will 4 in the morning show BBLB and the main 10pm show from the night before again? Just wondering.
I do hopw lots of shows get rotated around. So if its just programs, there will be no News on Chanel 4 until Noon? They could do 4/5 minutes of news every hour with the same women off rise maybe? I just wonder if a Dog and clock will be present? I think its likely.
The Channel 4 Daily (with Bill Bingham and, on odd days, Carol Barnes(!)) was simply superb... informative, sleek and different - now the BBC1 brekky has turned chatty I would dearly love a programme with that old format. Everybody Loves Raymond at THAT time of day!????