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BBC Breakfast News Extra

(March 2005)

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IT
itsrobert Founding member
I never watched Breakfast News on BBC1 before the 1997 re-launch - we always used to watch TVam/GMTV. I recently came across a video clip on InformativosTV of a programme called "Breakfast News Extra". Just wondering if anyone can explain:

a) What it was.
b) When it launched.

Many thanks.
DE
deejay
Umm ... late 1990s ISTR. It was an experimental (though fairly long-lived) extra chunk of the programme from 9 until 9.30 (? - possibly 9.15) and it came from what was essentially a corridor in the old BBC Newsroom. (This was before Stage 6 at TVC was opened). It wasn't too far removed from what happens in the latter stages of Breakfast these days - less news and current affairs, more lifestyle and more interviews.
NE
Newsroom
deejay posted:
Umm ... late 1990s ISTR. It was an experimental (though fairly long-lived) extra chunk of the programme from 9 until 9.30 (? - possibly 9.15) and it came from what was essentially a corridor in the old BBC Newsroom. (This was before Stage 6 at TVC was opened). It wasn't too far removed from what happens in the latter stages of Breakfast these days - less news and current affairs, more lifestyle and more interviews.


And the usual presenter was Juliet Morris. Very Happy
BR
Brekkie
It ran for 20 minutes from 9-9.20pm. IIRC it was a phone-in programme, either on issues of the day or with a studio guest.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Thanks for all your answers to my questions. So it seems it was the light-hearted section of the programme, as Breakfast News was fairly serious - am I right? At least it still was serious in 1997/8 when I first watched. It only really started going downhill in 2002.
DA
Davidjb Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
It ran for 20 minutes from 9-9.20pm. IIRC it was a phone-in programme, either on issues of the day or with a studio guest.


Um 9-9:20pm? That would have to be called BBC Student Breakfast Extra.
NE
Noelfirl
Davidjb posted:
Um 9-9:20pm? That would have to be called BBC Student Breakfast Extra.


The BBC Student Breakfast already exists. It's called the One O'Clock News.
NG
noggin Founding member
itsrobert posted:
Thanks for all your answers to my questions. So it seems it was the light-hearted section of the programme, as Breakfast News was fairly serious - am I right? At least it still was serious in 1997/8 when I first watched. It only really started going downhill in 2002.


Wouldn't have called it "light hearted". The phone-ins were often quite serious in nature - it was more interactive than the normal Breakfast News programme though.
EQ
Equidem
Noelfirl posted:
Davidjb posted:
Um 9-9:20pm? That would have to be called BBC Student Breakfast Extra.


The BBC Student Breakfast already exists. It's called the One O'Clock News.


I've woken up to the Six O' Clock News too many times Confused

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