BBC Breakfast - Revolving Door Sunday
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We are approaching the second anniversary of BBC Breakfast's move to Salford. As a result of this move, this created three presentation teams; Monday-Wednesday presented by Bill Turnbull and the now-departed Susanna Reid; Thursday-Saturday presented by Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin and Sunday, which is just about anyone, which is why I've titled this thread (I have seen Sunday referred to as "Pick 'n Mix Sunday" on another forum) and because of the randomness of who is presenting on this day, this deserves its own thread. Over the past 2 years, the following have hosted Breakfast on Sunday:-
Jon Kay, Roger Johnson, Nicholas Owen, Tim Muffett, Adam Parsons, Simon McCoy, John Maguire
Naga Munchetty, Sally Nugent, Steph McGovern, Jenny Hill, Deborah McKenzie, Sian Lloyd, Katherine Downes
(Apologies if I've forgotten anyone)
The pairing for Sunday 16th March will be Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty.
It's a similar situation with the presenter of the sports news within the programme. Sally Nugent presents Monday-Thursday and Mike Bushell does Friday-Saturday and as for Sunday, it appears any random person at the BBC Sports Centre slots in.
Jon Kay, Roger Johnson, Nicholas Owen, Tim Muffett, Adam Parsons, Simon McCoy, John Maguire
Naga Munchetty, Sally Nugent, Steph McGovern, Jenny Hill, Deborah McKenzie, Sian Lloyd, Katherine Downes
(Apologies if I've forgotten anyone)
The pairing for Sunday 16th March will be Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty.
It's a similar situation with the presenter of the sports news within the programme. Sally Nugent presents Monday-Thursday and Mike Bushell does Friday-Saturday and as for Sunday, it appears any random person at the BBC Sports Centre slots in.
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Sounds like a good idea to me - less viewers on a Sunday so less pressure, so they can try out newer talent.
OR - they could just go and poach Lorraine Kelly to do one show a week for a million pounds a year !!
And if the current setup also suits the existing arrangements elsewhere (be it im the Sports dept, BBC News channel duties, regional duties etc), why worry about changing it and thereby making it more inflexible?
With Match of the day starting around 7.30 half of Breakfast is only on the News Channel.
They could save money sending London people like Nicholas Owen up to Salford.
Would anyone notice the lack of a sofa?
Does it really matter if they have different presenters every Sunday they are there to read an autocue for a few hours.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1948624
Watching at around 6:30 on BBC one, I did notice that Louise gave an update from the news conference and said that they would keep viewers updated.
Not the best editorial decision however
Give the gig to Nicholas Owen and/or Naga Munchetty or any other News Channel presenter who is perfectly capable.
I was watching on BBC1 and they certainly didn't show the press conference at which significant new information emerged. It has been the BBC's lead story all day so clearly an error of judgement which will no doubt be shrugged off in next week's Newswatch. Breakfast rarely (if ever) has a live event at that time in the morning but the editor clearly deemed it more important to show a couple of lightweight pre-recorded programmes which are shown many times during the day.
I posted a similar reply in the TV forum thread - if you accept that BBC Breakfast is more of a news magazine programme, and the News channel is the place for hard news and news developments, then this split showed exactly why BBC one and the News Channel simulcast BBC Breakfast.
The BBC then have the ability to follow a live news briefing or conference (which is normally of indeterminate length and content) without being compromised by either the format of Breakfast or the BBC one schedule itself.
Would those who watch BBC one Breakfast have been enthralled by what could have been a long and rambling news conference? Or would they have preferred the normal Saturday schedule, knowing that any important updates from said conference would be relayed by the presenters if necessary? And knowing that the NC was carrying full coverage?
There are often remarks from posters here, including your good self, regarding why one programme or another is carried simultaneously on the News channel and BBC one (or BBC Two), but when BBC one splits and chooses not to carry NC output, that is deemed to be wrong too.
But do the same group of people watch on a Sunday morning (when it is customary to have a lie-in) as opposed to a Saturday?
I don't know the answer, just thinking out loud.
Anyway, Film 24 has only recently been shown at those times (it used to be the slot for Reporters on a Saturday), and it is also repeated at other times, with the first showing at 17:45 on a Friday, repeated 21:45. Oddly, iPlayer does not list the weekend early-morning broadcasts at all
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rk5j5/broadcasts/upcoming
So the BBC has a great highly talented pool to use to present shows and can use many to support the most popular Breakfast show, so what's wrong with that?
I think the motto to ITV is if it ant broke don't change it.
The spectacular failures of ITV and TV AM shows, shows they have got it wrong again and again.
ITV has focused often on one or two personalities thrown millions at them, and it doesn't work.
People tune in for content not personalities, it's not the cover of a book you buy it's what's inside.
ITV fail as it's just the one or two, and no back up team, Regionally, or in the newsroom.
All they do most of the time is take it in turns to read a sentence each. Surely just one person could do this?
Sky have two people, but they seem to use them a lot more intelligently than simply taking turns to read an autocue.
About a year ago, they dropped the Breakfast format for a couple of days, and had just one person who read the headlines. This was exactly what I needed in the morning - the news, no waffle and no dumbing down.
Sadly this crap that they try to pass off as news ends up on the News 24 channel as well, which is supposed to be a serious news channel?
I don't rate Jon Kay either. Especially after the clip of him eyeing up Susanna