Daybreak.....

[ELVIS68]

Watched it the other morning and they were all munching chocolate bars and quoting stuff like they do on the adverts for such bars

It was the TV version of Anthea Turners wedding pics

Surely this is not right for a breakfast tv show?

[andy-hughes]

The subect of the new breakfast show has been debated on here - as well as the media.

I have opined that some TV execs simply fail to grasp messages that are obvious to anyone with more than a cursory interest in media -

an individual in one show is not the popular ingredient - it's the show. Witness Davina McCall - imagined as 'popular' because she shouts over the Big Brother intros, when in fact you could put a twiglet up there and have the same viewing figures - it's the programme people watch, not her. So - using their flawed logic of her 'popularity' - she gets a chat show which bombs on its bottom.

Take Chiles and Bleakley and their 'chemistry' (purlease!) out of The One Show, and replace GMTV with them, and hey presto - it was The One Show people watched - and continue to watch - and now on ITV, they are getting lower viewing figures than GMTV which they replaced.

For heaven's sake - it's not difficult to ascertain whether it is the presenter or the show that makes people tune in - or crucially - not.

Daybreak is a car crash of television - and unless the figures stay really bad and the advertisers (the real power) take their money away - the presenters are safe, because firing them will bring a massive payout, and the admission that they failed, along with the people who poached them, so the producers and directors will be for the chop very very soon.

[quizzywig]

That's so true andy. Personally I'm really glad Chiles & Bleakley went over to ITV and took their "chemistry" with them, she's ok but can't stand Chiles and his dreadful voice and miserable face (not wonder she prefers Lampers!) I haven't watched daybreak for this reason.
The One Show would be better maybe three times a week - you can have too much of it every evening.

[ELVIS68]

Can attempting to dry hump Bleakley every 5 mins be classed as "Chemistry"?

[ummmm]

The new one show hosts are not much better. Why do they make them sit so close together. They look uncomfortable.

[andy-hughes]

It's all about the 'chemistry'.

BTW, the definition of 'chemistry' for TV execs is -

attractive woman / ugly grumpy man interface exposed as ludicrously unreal by forced proximity and gentle innuendo intersperesed with meaningful glances created for the folllowing reasons -

MAN - I have never been this close to an attractive woman without helping the police with their enquries afterwards. I would jump your bones in the time it takes to blink, and I spend my nights crying myself to sleep because it's never going to happen, and seeing that reality every time you look at me almost makes my eight-figure contract not worth the pain.

WOMAN - being connected with you is the only way i am going to get a high-profile TV gig, and i have to pretend that there is an unspoken attraction between us. In reality - somewhere I live, and you don't - I wouldn't touch you with a laser map pointer, and I shiver every time you press your sweaty thigh against me and look at me like a poodle hoping for a buscuit. I can't wait to get away to my footballer boyfriend who is everything you are not - talented, handsome, virile, uncreepy etc. I just pray my agent can get me a solo show as soon as possible - pretending to sile and laugh is causing havoc with my jaw muscles every day. Oh, and stop ringing me at 3:00 a.m. and haning up, I know it's you!!!!

So, as you can see, it's really never going to work is it? the pity is, these execs are paid seven-figure salaries to come up with this nonsense!

[ummmm]

But Jason and Alex are doing something similar. To me they both look uncomfortable...

[andy-hughes]

Of course - the basic premise remains the same - onoly the utterly incompatible presenters made to fit this creey notion of 'chemistry' changes.

[patsyann]

andy-hughes
Thank you for putting down so wittily everything that I find appalling, boring,talentless,about Daybreak.I was really pleased to switch on one day last week to no Chiles Bleakley combination and the whole atmosphere had changed back to the good old days of GMTV.
Those sofas need replacing or a desk put in front of them as Bleakley cant sit elegantly and Chiles needs pebble glasses so that he can read what he is supposed to say without screwing up his face and peering forward.
Like you I hope that the advertisers will pull out and the executives sacked for ruining a perfectly good programme with their idea of change. It aint working.


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