Bye bye for now, BBC Breakfast

Jonny69

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I can't do alarm clocks. I sleep very light and anything louder than a whisper doesn't wake me up so much as jolt me close to a heart attack. The g/f on the other hand sleeps like a corpse and needs a right old fuss to wake her up.
I got fed up with the added strain on my heart with her ridiculously loud alarm clocks (she had 3) so we came to a happy medium: We bought a television with an alarm and that switches quietly onto BBC1 and wakes me up gently. I give her a shove and a kiss to wake her up and everybody is happy. And awake.

And that's the way it's been for about 3 years now, but BBC have overlooked one small thing. The same presenters are on rotation every morning but they repeat the same sensationalist news EVERY 15 minutes. So if I doze off with the t.v. still on I might hear the SAME stories and the same presenter trying to give the guest an unneccessarily hard time up to 5 or more times and it's starting to drive me up the wall!!! Can the BBC really not find anything else to pad the time out with? This is what I used to like about The Big Breakfast as you could wake up to light humoured silly antics and it would be different every day.

So this morning we switched over to the radio and it was Radio 4 that woke me up rather than BBC Breakfast. It wasn't far off the BBC1 repetitive nature but it was a different format and the presenters were quite entertaining. More importantly it did actually wake me up as I was listening to it rather than trying to get away from it by going back to sleep.

A pointless thread but I feel enlightened and awoken this morning despite the fact that the tube of harissa paste in the fridge has obviously been fermenting in the fridge and exploded in the night.
 
When accidentally tuning my radio between Radio 1 and XFM I left it on Classic FM.

I feel like I've had an enlightenment. Waking up to classical music every day is really really nice :)
 
classicfm can be ok too but annoying sometimes. I havent listened in a while but they used to have the 'school run' slot which consisted of lively upbeat classical music that everyone knows and likes. Sometimes thats fine to wake you up but sometimes I'd rather have a slow smooth classical peice to wake me up rather than loud orchestral music.
 
Definatly a place in the market for a good TV breakfast show again. What we have now is pretty dull, Channel 4 should pull their fingers out instead of showing countless repeats of poor american sitcoms :D
 
I'd say that the Chris Moyles show on radio one has a Big Breakfast feel to it? so you could try that if you havn't already?
 
Frank Butcher said:
Definatly a place in the market for a good TV breakfast show again. What we have now is pretty dull, Channel 4 should pull their fingers out instead of showing countless repeats of poor american sitcoms :D
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Totally agree. ITV isn't much better, it's like a lower quality version of what the BBC put on. I don't know why you would watch that instead.

There must be a demand for something fun in the morning, I used to love waking up to the Big Breakfast.
 
Jonny69 said:
I can't do alarm clocks. I sleep very light and anything louder than a whisper doesn't wake me up so much as jolt me close to a heart attack. The g/f on the other hand sleeps like a corpse and needs a right old fuss to wake her up.
I got fed up with the added strain on my heart with her ridiculously loud alarm clocks (she had 3) so we came to a happy medium: We bought a television with an alarm and that switches quietly onto BBC1 and wakes me up gently. I give her a shove and a kiss to wake her up and everybody is happy. And awake.

And that's the way it's been for about 3 years now, but BBC have overlooked one small thing. The same presenters are on rotation every morning but they repeat the same sensationalist news EVERY 15 minutes. So if I doze off with the t.v. still on I might hear the SAME stories and the same presenter trying to give the guest an unneccessarily hard time up to 5 or more times and it's starting to drive me up the wall!!! Can the BBC really not find anything else to pad the time out with? This is what I used to like about The Big Breakfast as you could wake up to light humoured silly antics and it would be different every day.

So this morning we switched over to the radio and it was Radio 4 that woke me up rather than BBC Breakfast. It wasn't far off the BBC1 repetitive nature but it was a different format and the presenters were quite entertaining. More importantly it did actually wake me up as I was listening to it rather than trying to get away from it by going back to sleep.

A pointless thread but I feel enlightened and awoken this morning despite the fact that the tube of harissa paste in the fridge has obviously been fermenting in the fridge and exploded in the night.
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Ive listened to the Today programme for quite a few years now - i find its a great way to start the day - nothing better than some overly self-important politician being taken down a peg or two by John Humphries to put a smile on your face.....
 
Big Breakfast was ace. They really need to bring back something like that.

Johnny & Denise were by far the best presenters, they had such a chemistry :cool:
 
R4 for the winn
Just so long as you can ignore John Humphries' somewhat aggressive interview technique that early in the day ;)
Been a good number of years since I listened to anything else on the radio.
 
Mister_Pister said:
I sometimes set my winamp alarm clock to turn on drum & bass in the morning, usually works but sometimes I have been known to sleep through that too :o
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I used to have my Alam Radio set to a dance radio station
I used to just listen to it half asleep :o

One3 time it was a dance remix of a Female Orgasm, It was loud enough mum probably heard it. It got me out of bed and turned it off quick :p
 
I might try one of those light things you can get for S.A.D where like an hour before your meant to get up this big bulb thing starts glowing and getting brighter (simulating the sun). Dunno if they work but there has GOT to be a way of waking up that doesnt leave you more nackered then when you went to bed :confused:
 
bitslice said:
get a cat
mine flop themselves on my head and shove their bum in my face.

I've learnt not to yawn in the morning...
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Some girls do that in the morning. If you're lucky ;)
 
Hellsmk2 said:
The female presenter for BBC News in the morning sets me up for the day. I could look at her for hours on end. Mmmmmmm.
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If you mean Susannah Reid couldnt agree more:

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Every time I see Kate Silverton I just get the urge to hit the TV with a cricket bat:

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