Is it just a UK thing how presenters tend to do 4 day weeks when doing Live TV? Or on the like of GMA, Today & CBS This Morning in the states and Sunrise & Today in Australia - do their anchors only do the majority of the week?
I think both at breakfast and in the evening most of them are 6 or 7 day operations with weekday and weekend hosts. Weekday tends to mean Monday to Friday, though in recent years some evening news programmes use their main host from Sunday to Thursdays, with the secondary hosts on Friday and Saturdays.
It does just seem to be largely a UK thing giving presenters Fridays off, and only really happens in TV (Chris Evans was the exception rather than the rule, and even then it was largely due to him having another job on Fridays). Not sure when Richard and Judy gave up the Fridays - possibly coincided with the move to London, though they definately had guest hosts in Liverpool.
Secondary anchor, currently Kate Garraway, ends up doing more work than the main presenters!... so I can't see Ben becoming a stand-in presenter, if that was the case, I think he would just leave.
Ben and Susanna must have brilliant contracts with the amount they are being paid and the amount of holidays they get.
Susanna is still doing four days a week isn't she, which is more than at the BBC, while extended holidays in the summer are not unusual at all for the main hosts. Ben has other roles at ITV and that would be factored in - when he began GMB he wasn't doing Ninja Warrior and Tipping Point hadn't been renewed for 325 episodes.
Piers Morgan would be a huge mistake. I just dont understand why ITV are incapable of growing there own talent, surely there's other people than Susana, Kate, Ranvir, Dr Hillary, Loarraine that can be trained to present this show. What it needs is two presenters with natural chemistry, who don't have an ego, and someone we haven't seen before. I said it before but I believe it needs a young Eamonn Holmes.
The show needs its old theme back aswell, never liked how they now start standing near the desk; it was much better when it went straight into the top news, then we were introduced "live from london" intro then into the studio. It felt very exiting. It doesn't make sense to have that intro now. This show shouldn't be BBC breakfast, just presenters have can have a laugh naturally, with breaking news and interesting interviews, thats people want to see (not outdated unknown bands such as Blue, who no-one cares about).
When they launched this they should have started again, not see all the presenters we know from before.
Obviously in ITV's eyes Sean is still important, The Chase just asked the question 'Sean Fletcher is a Co-Presenter...'
You'd think they'd know better than to include questions about ITV breakfast shows, makes it harder to repeat
The amount of times on You've Been Framed Harry Hill says something like "Daybreak's Aled Jones there..." When someone who looks slightly like Aled features in a clip.
Obviously in ITV's eyes Sean is still important, The Chase just asked the question 'Sean Fletcher is a Co-Presenter...'
You'd think they'd know better than to include questions about ITV breakfast shows, makes it harder to repeat
The amount of times on You've Been Framed Harry Hill says something like "Daybreak's Aled Jones there..." When someone who looks slightly like Aled features in a clip.
Remember when they tried to pretend that Christine Bleakley looked like the masked woman on 'The Cube' on TV Burp? I'm sure to this day that that was just some forced cross-promotion for Daybreak.
Obviously in ITV's eyes Sean is still important, The Chase just asked the question 'Sean Fletcher is a Co-Presenter...'
You'd think they'd know better than to include questions about ITV breakfast shows, makes it harder to repeat
The amount of times on You've Been Framed Harry Hill says something like "Daybreak's Aled Jones there..." When someone who looks slightly like Aled features in a clip.
Remember when they tried to pretend that Christine Bleakley looked like the masked woman on 'The Cube' on TV Burp? I'm sure to this day that that was just some forced cross-promotion for Daybreak.
I believe Christine's agents at the time were Avalon, who made TV Burp of course...
