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The irony as far as The Sun is concerned is one thing they're usually reliable for is insider TV news. Most of their genuine reporting, rather than clickbait journalism, turns out to be true. Just shows though if they're willing to blatantly lie about things that can so easily be proven to be untrue - and then double down on them - that they're willing to lie about anything to fit their narrative. Not sure what Midsomer Murders has done to deserve that treatment though.

Back to breakfast and the Katie Piper Breakfast Show starts this weekend across Saturdays and Sundays, with the Titchmarsh/James Martin repeats back beforehand. I don't suppose there are any figures out there of how these rate compared to the previous CITV content.

Katie Piper's show actually began last weekend.

Don't have the exact figures to hand, but the CITV block was getting less than 100k (often 50k) against an average of just over 200k on Saturday & Sunday just gone.

Don't quite understand why these shows are summer only (do ITV have an amount of new shows they have to commission for the breakfast licence?) but before the clocks change the ratings for that slot are often 300k+ (peaking at 500k). That's not far off what GMB achieves during the week.