Big Breakfast, The

The big breakfast was a show run in the 90's that got me up for my days at primary school and then secondary school, it was a brilliant show for all ages providing great entertainment in the morning, which doesn't exist these days, around the time i watched it, it was presented by the likes of Johnny Vaughan, Denise Van Outen, Richard Bacon and Gabby Roslin, these are only who i remember of the top of my head, oh and how could i forget the great Chris Evans. I can remember the great wee competitions they had which involved counting the cups of tea put on the screen in a sequence, appropriatly named more tea vicar, a rarity nowadays with the likes of GMTV ...  Read the complete review

If ever there was a programme dying to make a comeback, it's this one. If ever there was a series, so sorely missed, it was this: A groundbreaking breakfast show that replaced the utterly bland and dire Channel 4 News at breakfast time on weekdays. This was avant-garde TV which , since its brutal axing, has never really been replaced with a worthy newcomer. The zany and irreverent show featured a host of presenter teams introducing varied magazine-style articles, guests and features. These included: Pun of the Week, Zig and Zag and Paula on the Bed. The news and weather, it seemed, were secondary and incidental to the entertainment provided by the ad-libbed ...  Read the complete review

Having watched The Big Breakfast for a few weeks for the purposes of reviewing it I have to ask the question : what is Johnny Vaughan supposed to be? During Comic Relief last year he proved he cannot sing, he clearly has no views on anything so he's not a pundit, he doesn't interview anyone other than to set up a feeble 'gag'. As yet he hasn't told a joke so he's not a comedian. I simply do not get the point of him. On The Big Breakfast he is surrounded by a group of people who seem to be connected to wires or headphones and many have clip-boards. These I assume are the production crew but surely it doesn't take this many people to produce a show which seems ...  Read the complete review

Why oh why oh why oh why, have Channel Four taken away the only cheerful breakfast television programme and replaced it with absolute drivvle??? I don't think Channel Four will ever be able to pull in massive breakfast ratings, but if they thought the BB's were low then just wait until that RI:SE has been on for a couple of weeks. I miss the chants of "Woman in a Tabbard", "Steps of Woe", "Get your Knobbly Nuts Out" and "More Tea Vicar". Now I get a few ponsey presenters trying to look laid back, relaxed, casual. When I wake up in the mornings I want to start the day off with some cheer, not some programme which ...  Read the complete review

I found myself in a "horrible limbo" in the week that followed the BB ending recently. Viewers were faced with a childrens' programme instead of the BB while channel 4 got to work on the final touches of "Rise", BB's successor. I have to confess that I actually cried when it last aired a few weeks ago. It surprised me but then it has been on our screens for over ten years so it shouldn't be that amazing for myself and others to find some regret in it's demise. It did go out with a fairly good "bang" though with Mike "Squeaky" Mclean one of the presenters depositing the BB Gnome outside Channel 4 ...  Read the complete review