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Time 4 Breakfast - A look into Channel 4's breakfast television programmes
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2024
- We’re taking a small excursion from the Television Affair over the next few weeks to tell you a little story about breakfast television on Channel 4.
It covers the launch of Channel Four’s breakfast show, along with what else was happening over on the BBC, ITV and even Sky one.
This is the first episode, and in the next episode we’ll be looking at the glory years of The Big Breakfast.
I've just noticed that Dermot Murnaghan finished the last edition of the daily in the same way he retired on Sky news - "Here's a last look at the headlines... here they are" holds sheet to the camera... Throws paper behind him. Although in the latter he says "stay classy"
I loved the TV AM intro. It does something to my psyche.
Yeah there's like something about it that says "I'm home"
Happy memories of the Channel 4 Daily - at the beginning of the 90s I worked at Thames in VTR/Tech Ops and in those days the ITV contractors used to insert the commercial breaks for Channel 4 regionally. As the Channel 4 Daily came off air at 0925, Channel 4 became our responsibility from that point - commercials-wise - so if you were rostered on Channel 4 comms you'd have the C4D on as you got setup. That oh-so-80s/90s sax sound in the theme tune is incredibly evocative and brings back a lot of happy memories. Right - it's 9.25 & time for the Art of Landscape..
Great video as always - many thanks.
I have a soft spot for the Channel Four Daily. In honesty, it wasn't something I liked watching. Especially as I was only a kid at the time, and news was Kryptonite to me. But it was an interesting experiment to provide something a little different, and I always have a lot of respect for TV which tries out new ideas. I think it was excellent at what it did, but there ultimately wasn't a sizeable audience for it. The problem seemed to be that it aimed at the city slicker, but that kind of person would most likely not have time for breakfast TV. I did sometimes watch the Dennis cartoon and Countdown Masters. I think it was a shame that it didn't succeed, but I do understand why. But out of the ashes emerged the biggest TV phenomenon of the 90's. Oh yes, I'll be watching part 2.
Tv Mayhem; I can't remember where I read this, but there was an interesting story behind it. Apparently, Chris Evans devised it purely to shaft TV-am. And succeeded. When he was about to do the show, a friend in the industry asked him why he'd pitched the idea to a company whose future was uncertain due to the ITV franchise auction. Chris told him, something along the lines of "They're going to lose the licence. Bruce Gyngell thinks he can't lose, due to quality. But he's going to bid disastrously low. They're not going to get it.". He went on to explain how TV-am had commissioned over 50 weeks of the show, and Chris had craftily drawn up a contract which guaranteed full payment to his production company for the series if cancelled early. When TV-am did indeed lose the franchise, they sought to maximise profits in their final year. TV Mayhem was cancelled way ahead of time, but Chris held them to their contract and received a personal fortune of over £1million. But it still benefitted TV-am, who could make more money from cheap cartoons in the slot.
When Chris joined The Big Breakfast, he told a journalist (I've seen the footage.) that he took the job because he was enthusiastic about it. And that the money didn't matter to him, as he already had money. That money was the TV-am windfall from the previous year. He was a millionaire when The Big Breakfast started. When he left The Big Breakfast, he had very little money. He'd spent it all on a collection of classic cars. That's from his autobiography.
Breakfast TV is my Mastermind specialist subject. I could write way more than I already have, sorry that this is a very long comment. I'll stop here, for now. But be prepared for how much I have to say about The Big Breakfast when part 2 lands.
i'm going to need "bruce gyngell was an egg murderer" on a t-shirt, pls.
Weird sensation for me to see that DJ Kat intro, we didn't have Sky TV in our house until 1997, so to see things from before then is like looking into something from the past that I missed out on, not that it's a big deal or anything.
Dj kat used to have an American accent at the start. The original host was DJ Kat and Linda De mol who is the sister of John De mol of big brother parent company Endemol. It was originally for a european audience and Linda is dutch but you'd probably just think they were both American :) I think it was the late 80s when he got his British accent and I believe there was another version of dj kat on an american channel
I remember entering a competition on the Channel 4 Daily during the kids section. I think it was called Earl-e-bird or something. Anyway, the prize was a Sega Gamegear and I didn’t win. Rubbish.
Great idea for a series by the way. Any plans to do a series about Channel 5’s history in the future?
That would have been a great brag back in the day. I once sent in a drawing of my baby brother to the Children's Channel and we both got mugs... smashed yonks ago.
Thank you :) Yeah I have Channel 5 lined up with a couple of others - I have the opening sequence in my head
How many morning TV shows were filmed in a house? I can only think of Big Breakfast and No.73 right now but feel there should be more.
It's a shame there's no enthusiasm at Channel 4 to launch a new breakfast service rather than continually repeating the same American sitcoms.
Well since when they did try, they got tiny audiences, Channel 4 thinks, why bother? The Big Breakfast was their only true successful breakfast show, but even that was becoming boring after five years. RISE was a failure, too middle class and high brow. So Channel 4 said, screw it, and do what they do now.
When the Daily finished,that was it. Off to BBC Breakfast for me
This is an interesting video but please sort your audio out its like listening to a headache
I never understood the franchising model needed for ITV Breakfast as I see the Channel 4 Daily working better for an ITV breakfast show than TV AM. Instead of the franchises maybe ITV could have let ITN do a breakfast programme like C4 Daily
who is having cheese and ham toasties for *breakfast*? at that time of day?
Channel 4 decided to focus on prime time and not daytime over the years
I had seen the Channel 4 daily never really liked it