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Breakfast

Format	News, Business, Sport and Weather
Created by	BBC News
Presented by	Bill Turnbull Sian Williams Susanna Reid Charlie Stayt
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	195 minutes (3 hour 15 min, Weekdays on BBC One)
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	2000-10-02 – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Breakfast News
Related shows	BBC One O'Clock News, BBC Six O'Clock News, BBC Ten O'Clock News
External links
Official website

BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and BBC News 24. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre in White City, West London, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items. The programme is broadcast seven days a week, every week of the year, including weekends and public holidays, which are presented from the BBC News 24 set. ^[1]

Zoe Barnes is the current Acting Editor of the programme,^[2] following the departure of David Kermode to Five News.

1 History
2 Presenters
3 Reporters
4 Video podcast
5 Specials
6 Former presenters
7 Awards
8 Spoofs
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

The programme was originally launched as Breakfast Time on 17 January 1983. Presenters included Frank Bough, Kirsty Wark, John Stapleton, Selina Scott, Jeremy Paxman and Sally Magnusson. The relaxed feel to the programme included a set designed to be a front room, with leather arm chairs and sofas for presenters to sit on.

Following a relaunch, the programme was renamed Breakfast News in 1989 and followed a much more authoritative tone with a desk modelled on the style used on main news bulletins.

A much larger relaunch came in 2000 with the establishment of Breakfast, merging the operations of the separate BBC One and BBC News 24 programmes for one single simulcast. Since April 2006 BBC News 24 has begun rolling news coverage at 08:30 while the programme continues on BBC One until 09:15.

From 0830 the tone of the programme shifts to a lighter tone. There is a sports bulletin followed by between three and five items that are mainly arts, entertainment or cultural in nature and in 2006, have included interviews with Halle Berry^[3], Sir Michael Caine^[4] and Reese Witherspoon ^[5]. This provides a link to the daytime schedule, via the daytime controller and also the BBC One Controller.

The programme celebrated its 20th anniversary on 17 January 2003.^[6]

The current presentation of the programme was introduced with a wider relaunch of BBC One news bulletins on 2 May 2006. Breakfast moved into studio N6 at Television Centre with the other BBC One bulletins requiring a new, larger set design. The new set walls are made up of Barco video screens allowing for different backgrounds, graphics and still photographs. Initially the background used were of cirrus clouds on a blue sky but following comments from viewers that this was too cold, the background was replaced by orange squares from the new titles. This was also designed to hide any joins or faults between the screens which had been made obvious beforehand.The set has a generic format which can be used for other programmes like Working Lunch with very little set movement.

Bill Turnbull - Main male presenter, joined in 2001.
Sian Williams - Main weekday presenter since 2006, weekend and regular weekday presenter before then since 2001
Susanna Reid - Main weekend presenter and occasional weekday presenter since 2006

Charlie Stayt - Relief Presenter
Louise Minchin - Relief Presenter

On December 20 2007 main weekday presenter Dermot Murnaghan left the programme to become a presenter on Sky News from January 2008.^[7]. A replacement has not been announced, but it appears likely that Bill Turnbull will become the weekday presenter, while Charlie Stayt becomes the Weekend presenter. BBC News 24's Nicholas Owen, Ben Brown and Simon McCoy are also possible replacements.

As well as presenting from the studio, the main presenters are called upon to present on location when major stories break. For example, Bill Turnbull presented live from King's Cross in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, while Sian Williams reported live from the scene of the Indian earthquake in 2005.

The main Sport presenters are Chris Hollins (Monday-Thursdays), Sue Thearle (Fridays and occasionally during the week or weekend) and Mike Bushell (Weekends and occasionally during the week). Sport updates are at 06.10, 06.35, 07.35 and 08.35.

Breakfast's business presenter is Declan Curry, who presents business updates at 06.10, 06.25, 06.50, 07.25, 07.55 and 08.25. During his absence the role is filled by Manisha Tank, Tanya Beckett or Susannah Streeter.

The main weather presenters are Carol Kirkwood and Louise Lear (normally a weekend presenter, but currently covering the maternity leave of Helen Willetts. Lear and Kirkwood present on Mondays-Thursdays on alternate fortnights. Matt Taylor or Alex Deakin present the forecasts on Fridays and at weekends. The weather is broadcast at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour throughout the programme. During the week, forecasts are normally presented from the Blue Peter Garden, from the roof of Television Centre or out on location, often when the weather is in the news, such as during an expected storm surge in 2007.

The programme has a team of reporters permanently assigned to Breakfast in addition to using the reporters who appear across BBC news outlets. Reporters work on outside broadcasts at home and abroad presenting live interviews, and coverage from news and feature stories. They are also reporters on news stories and features providing the voice or commentary to a video taped report - although many of these stories are now edited and transmitted using digital technology .

As of 2007, the dedicated team includes Julia George, née Botfield (currently on maternity leave), Sarah Campbell, Graham Satchell, Richard Westcott, Susannah Streeter, and Tim Muffett.Reeta Chakrabarti is the programme's main political correspondent.

In September 2006, Breakfast launched its own video podcast called the Breakfast Takeaway. BBC Television News had already launched three other services: Newsnight, the Ten O'Clock News and STORYFix which also had a television version broadcast at the weekend on News 24. ^[8] The Breakfast takeaway was available Monday to Friday in MP4 format where it could be downloaded to and viewed from a home or office computer.

The video podcasts were a one year trial, and from July 2007 they were discontinued. They are currently reviewing the trial and how to progress forward.

In 2003, the Breakfast production team was commissioned by BBC One to make a week long series called The Day Team From Chatsworth presented by Nicki Chapman, and presenter of the BBC's Countryfile programme, John Craven. It took a behind the scenes look at the stately home Chatsworth House ^[9] and was broadcast separately on BBC One at 1030 in the morning.

A number of other guests, or celebrity presenters have been used on Breakfast to present themed days or weeks, even though some have never been mainstream news reporters or presenters. Many of these have seen the programme extended to 0930:

Chris Beardshaw - Chelsea Flower Show 2006
Alistair Appleton - Tate Modern 2004, Bath 2003
Jennie Bond - Buckingham Palace 2004
Nicki Chapman - Children in Need November 2005, London Fashion Week 2004, Chelsea Flower Show 2006
Philippa Forrester - Alder Hey Children's Hospital 2002
Andi Peters - Neighbours set 2005, EastEnders/Albert Square outside broadcast 2006
Gaby Roslin - Wimbledon (tennis outside broadcast) 2002
Tim Wonnacott - Christie's Auction Room 2004

Rob Bonnet - main sport presenter for ten years until October 2005, moved to present BBC World and weekend bulletins.
Jeremy Bowen - main presenter alongside Sophie Raworth between 2000 and 2002, now the BBC's Middle East Editor
Darren Jordon - presented alongside Sarah Montague between 2000-2001, now deputy presenter on Al Jazeera English
Natasha Kaplinsky - main presenter alongside Dermot Murnaghan and Bill Turnbull between 2002 and 2005. Moved to present the Six O'Clock News, initially as cover for Sophie Raworth but was confirmed as full-time presenter in April 2006. Now with Five News.
Isobel Lang - weather presenter, now working for Sky News
Sarah Montague - presented alongside Darren Jordon, now presents BBC Radio 4's Today
Sophie Raworth - presented alongside Jeremy Bowen, Bill Turnbull and Dermot Murnaghan between 2000-2002, now presents the BBC's One O'Clock News
Moira Stuart - regular newsreader for Breakfast from launch until the relaunch of the programme in May 2006. She presented her last bulletin for Breakfast on 2006-04-26. She then became a newsreader Sunday AM and The Politics Show as well as some weekend BBC News bulletins. She has now been dropped by BBC News.
Mishal Husain - joined the programme to cover for Sian Williams who in turn had been covering for Natasha Kaplinsky. She has rejoined BBC World as well as presenting weekend bulletins on BBC One.
Kate Silverton - Regular Relief Presenter from 2005 until 2007, when she moved to present the new 8pm bulletin and cover the BBC One O'Clock News.^[10]
Dermot Murnaghan - Main weekday presenter from 2002 until December 2007 after joining from ITV. He presented alongside Sophie Raworth, Natasha Kaplinsky and Sian Williams before leaving for when he moved to Sky News.

In March 2006, Breakfast won the TRIC award for best daytime television programme for the third year in a row.^[11]

Anchor Dermot Murnaghan and relief presenter/ BBC News 24 presenter Kate Silverton are parodied by Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens on the Dead Ringers programme on BBC Two.
Studio8's Breakfast News also parodied BBC Breakfast, shown on BBC Blast On Two in 2005.
Armstrong and Miller spoof the programme in their comedy sketch shows