Sunday Brunch

E4 doesn't need T4 though to reach out to a younger audience, but for C4 (and any of the big networks) they need such branding to highlight the fact it isn't the same old same old in the slot.

Unfortunately now though with the commissioning of Sunday Brunch it is the same old same old on C4.

I'm sure the 'Big 5' mentality will live on just as it does in America.

Give it time. There are babies being born today who will see Channel 4 and BBC One as no different to E4 or Rocks & Co 1. To be honest, I think there is still a 'Big 4' mentality in this country rather than 'Big 5' anyway.

What was the name of that blond girl with the big teeth that co presented Something For The Weekend when it first started? Whatever happened to her?

That was Amanda Hamilton, she left the show in 2010..

She left for a bit to have a baby and then returned and then just disappeared. She was much better than Louise Redknapp.

Is sunday bunch and T4 really made by the same company? T4 on e4 did last until 3pm.

Princess Productions, yes.

The difference being that T4 is recorded and Sunday Brunch is live.

The successful ones were the ones that took the SwapShop format and evolved it. Superstore, Going Live, Live and Kicking and in some respects the 8.15 from Manchester.

But several of the summer shows were rubbish, because they had complicated and convoluted back stories. Chiefly Parallel 9, closely followed by It's Wicked.

Not to mention The Saturday Show. That had a completely different format didn't it? I recall it not being popular at first but when SMTV ended viewership increased.

I don't the Saturday show was that different to L&K if you distill it down to its basic components.

SM TV was pretty close to the Going Live/L&K formula in some ways, perhaps that's why TSS struggled, itv were doing a similar but more established show.