The perfect sunrise – slight return

Sometime OTT Blog sparring partner Stuart Ian Burns was in touch yesterday to provide more details on Breakfast‘s makeover… Read more

Double Bill

Following up on my last post, today has indeed been the first day of the new look Breakfast. The show has left its studios in Television Centre after nearly two decades. And to celebrate the fact, they got not one, but two Bill Turnbull esq’s to file a report.

The perfect sunrise

Thankfully I don’t frequent the sort of internet forums and newsgroups where BBC1′s Breakfast is going to generate a substantial amount of pixel-space, so I don’t know what the common consensus is on the show’s new look. And in fact, I don’t know if this is something that premiered today, or yesterday during the bank holiday. Read more

Speak for yourself

“When was the last time you used a phone box?” tittered one of the presenters on BBC News 24 the other night. “Go on – have a think!” “Oooh,” the other replied, hamming it up for all they were worth, “it must be at least 10 years. How about you? When was the last time you used a phone box?” “Probably …” “Yes?” “… Probably around 10 years as well.” “Now doesn’t that seem such a long time ago?” continued the first. “But now, the weather. Darren, when was the last time you used a phone box?” Read more