21-08-2023, 09:14 AM
(19-08-2023, 10:30 PM)DTV Wrote: I'm not sure about the Lorraine connection, but Breakfast originally ended at 09:00 and only got extended (initially to 09:30) when Kilroy suddenly got axed in 2004 and they needed an immediate filler in the schedule. After a few months, they cut Breakfast down to 09:15 and filled the rest of the old Kilroy slot with 45' pre-recorded daytime stuff. There could have been pre-empting considerations later, but the original extension was cheap cover.IIRC they still did the regional news at 8:55 between '04 and '06, and N24 went to the weather at the opt-out.
Out of interest, does anybody recall how they dealt with the 09:00 split between 2004 and 2006 - when Breakfast was extended on BBC One, but before BBC News 24 started opting-out at 08:30?
I do agree, though, that cutting Breakfast back to 09:00 and having an hour Morning Live would make more sense. The last fifteen minutes of Breakfast are a bit of a nothingburger anyway.