I’ve watched the show since Monday and have to say, I’m enjoying it very much.
Yes, it has echoes of the early “This Morning” set wise and I would say content wise (before TM went tabloid).
Both presenters and experts have a great rapport and it’s a very enjoyable and informative 45 minutes.
I really hope after the eight week run, the Beeb make this a permanent feature and extend it to at least an hour thirty each day.
I wouldn't be surprised if it they keep it at 45 minutes but they could extend to 60 minutes to 75 minutes. The latter length would mean they wouldn't have to commission the half hour factual programmes like Close Call for the 1145 slot.
I’ve watched the show since Monday and have to say, I’m enjoying it very much.
Yes, it has echoes of the early “This Morning” set wise and I would say content wise (before TM went tabloid).
Both presenters and experts have a great rapport and it’s a very enjoyable and informative 45 minutes.
I really hope after the eight week run, the Beeb make this a permanent feature and extend it to at least an hour thirty each day.
I wouldn't be surprised if it they keep it at 45 minutes but they could extend to 60 minutes to 75 minutes. The latter length would mean they wouldn't have to commission the half hour factual programmes like Close Call for the 1145 slot.
Homes under the Hammer and Bargain Hunt are obviously not going anywhere, so any extension to Morning Live will just result in increasing amounts of the 6am-2pm slot being exactly the same all week all year
The main fear I have is that 9.15-10 is just going to become yet another bland 50 week commission like The One Show. The ratings so far haven't really changed in comparison to the short term shows usually in that slot.
:-(
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Packed Lunch is on after This Morning though, whereas this is an alternate at the same time.
They’re all after the same audience, but few people are going to sit through the same ‘news’ twice over, regardless of how it’s packaged.
It's probably not too surprising that Morning Live has turned out okay, BBC One have been doing these types of shows both in daytime and with The One Show for yonks. Steph's Packed Lunch and its predecessor are made by a production company that has no expertise for these type of show and on a channel that hasn't done this type of show in quite some time.
Whilst The Steph Show is far from perfect, it’s not terrible, and I doubt the main reason for the poor ratings is that people hate it. I just think people aren’t in the habit of watching Channel 4 during the morning and early afternoon, and it’s just not special enough for people to think of switching over from BBC One or ITV.
I think Morning Live’s a decent programme, but similarly unremarkable, and if it was on C4 at 12.30, there’s no way it’d be pulling in 1.4m viewers. Equally, if The Steph Show was on BBC One, inheriting Breakfast’s audience, it wouldn’t be posting zeroes.
So assuming it ends before the Xmas holidays, Morning Live is about halfway through its 8 week run and it's actually alright. Kim and Gethin have plenty of chemistry which is a plus from some of the recent One Show pairings and the content isn't too fluffy like on Lorraine or This Morning.
The crossovers from presenters of BBC Daytime programmes such as Rav Wilding, Dr Xand have been okay. Love the vet and his dog Ollie.
But if the programme was to be given a full time run from the new year I feel some things would have to change, to mention just a few: the endboard, titles/music, graphics would all need to be improved and so would my biggest bugbearer the set. Honestly it feels in Studio V the BBC cant find the middle of the spectrum as The One Show set is far to bar and barren meanwhile Morning Live feels like an explosion in a thrift store.
Also the programme would need to be given a longer running time as especially in the last 15 minutes it does feel like a slight race to fit everything in before 10AM
I’ve watched the show since Monday and have to say, I’m enjoying it very much.
Yes, it has echoes of the early “This Morning” set wise and I would say content wise (before TM went tabloid).
Both presenters and experts have a great rapport and it’s a very enjoyable and informative 45 minutes.
I really hope after the eight week run, the Beeb make this a permanent feature and extend it to at least an hour thirty each day.
I wouldn't be surprised if it they keep it at 45 minutes but they could extend to 60 minutes to 75 minutes. The latter length would mean they wouldn't have to commission the half hour factual programmes like Close Call for the 1145 slot.
The programmes in the 11:45 slot (like Close Calls and Caught Red Handed) have repeat rights sold to UKTV and Discovery. Those shows might not be dropped as I suspect they might actually be breaking even, or even making a profit on them.
Although in this case just like The One Show was I think it is less about chasing ratings and more about consolidating a number of consumer formats under one brand.