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Susanna Reid "offered £1m to join itv"
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Daily Mirror saying that Susanna Reid is being offered £1m to join itv breakfast show which would be a four fold increase on her current salary.
itv believe they have done enough to persuade her to present Good Morning Britain the replacement for Daybreak.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2554595/Susanna-Reid-offered-1million-quit-BBC-Breakfast-join-new-ITV-morning-show.html
itv believe they have done enough to persuade her to present Good Morning Britain the replacement for Daybreak.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2554595/Susanna-Reid-offered-1million-quit-BBC-Breakfast-join-new-ITV-morning-show.html
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She could make a lot of money short term but could end up like Christine Bleakley and forever associated with another failed breakfast programme.
Did ITV just look at how Good Morning America has been?
Indeed, people don't watch ITV equivalent breakfast shows because of quality and ad-breaks.
As I predicted with Bleakley the BBC would just fish more talent from one of the regions. Same applies and ITV now have a big wage bill with nowhere to deploy it usefully.
And probably also end up going down as an example of how a successful presenter on one channel show, may not be enough to bring up the number of viewers on another channel.
The ratings don't seem to indicate that she is a draw for BBC Breakfast (the ratings don't seem to shoot up on the days that she presents), so the BBC would lose little by letting her go. There are a number of other female presenters who can and do step in quite successfully.
And if ITV wish to throw a million quid at another BBC star in order to once again try to save an ailing or moribund breakfast programme, that's up to them. Much as I like Susannah, I for one would be unlikely to start watching ITV's breakfast programme just because she is presenting.
And if she wants to take the ITV money and risk going the way of Chiles, Bleakley, Aled Jones et al, that';s up to her.
Hear, hear.
(Trouble is there are too many presenters who get away with being on BBC AND commercial channels channels)
I wont be watching. All ITV's breakfast shows are the same. Zelb guests and competitions, with the so called News Hour which is no doubt part of the remit. No weekend or holiday programming.
I thought GMTV did rule the roost back in the days of Eamon and Fiona.
Ben Shephard would be a good choice he and Fiona were a great team.
Look North (Yorkshire) journalist/presenter Ian White owns the rights to the TV-am logo not sure if he owns the rights to "Good Morning Britain".
At the BBC there are any number of options.
But if she goes to ITV it's Day(or)break.
Because, if it doesn't work out that's her career sunk.
3 years on 3 million- and then you don't get a new contract, and are finished- or stick with Auntie.
This is why the BBC do need to pay competitive (but not over the top) salaries.
Her BBC style wouldn't work on ITV.
It must be very demoralising for all the regional ITV presenters to know whenever there is a vacancy their bosses try to poach a 'known name' from the opposition.
It doesn't matter how many times they do it. it NEVER works.
The viewers might even warm to an unknown being given their first big break, rather than a big name signing.
If she gets a golden handshake then they would have to find her other shows like Chiles.
I suspect she would be expected to be on Loose Women and present the yawnsome one off special itv like to make on a Saturday night.
She'll get far more money at ITV, but they probably won't know what to do with her. Like Chrissie Bleakly. She may well end up with no work, but a massive salary.
Or does she wasnt to work her current hours and actually work up gradually?
They did but TV-am also had a programme called Daybreak.
So if Good Morning Britain flops what will they try next, Wacaday?
They have a huge pool of talent on regional stations that they could easily tap into without paying a fortune to pinch BBC staff. They just think that as BBC Breakfast has high ratings, then it must be due to the talented presenters. Absolute madness! If Suzanne was presenting 'Daybreak', will would not make any difference to the ratings.
Well apart from the pervy blokes who only watch Breakfast for a Sharon Stone moment which probably makes up a lot of the viewing figures, I wonder how much lower the viewers are when she is off?:p
They aren't very imaginative with breakfast programme titles are they?
I suspect she's probably just using the ITV offer to get a London posting, perhaps replacing Kate Silverton on the main bulletins when she goes on maternity leave.
Anyway she can't leave. She's a fantastic presenter, very warm and friendly yet very smart and good at interviewing. ITV Breakfast just isn't for her where they take presenters, former sport stars, ITN staff etc.
Susanna is a journalist! She would loose "herself" just like what happened to Christine and Adrian (the latter doing quite good though!).
As I said earlier, the ratings are pretty stable with or without her. Her presence or otherwise has no discernible effect upon the viewing figures.
Let them have Ellie Crissell.
Actually, I can think of one ITV bod- Emma Willis- but probably no good for the two or three days of the year ITV attempt to cover a serious story like a plane crash.
A move to ITV will basically mean interviewing z-celebs, talking about hemlines and asking political figures "what their favourite dinner or colour is". For a person who seems very smart I think she would go mad after a few months. ITV morning shows are basically the "news-lite" morning programmes for people who don't really care about the news and are more interested with what is happening in "Made in *insert some part of the UK*" shows.