BBC Breakfast ( children )

[Zaxi]

I want news, I don't want children singing, I didn't even like going to my own dc school assemblies (I went, and told my dc they were wonderful but you have to go to those)

Now they're interviewing the Matilda actress, I've had to mute it.

This should be on ITV not BBC

Jesus, this has made me thankful I had to go to work!

All the kids on the telly is because it's world book day, when DS was young in the 90s it wasn't such a thing, I can't recall him dressing up and I'm sure I would have remembered that horror, he just got a book voucher from school. It's like it lasts all week now. Just get on with your day, pause for the stuff you want, ff the stuff you don't

I do remember one very amusing one, though. Cocky young TV journalist was asking Jane and Joe Public what was their understanding of some scientific subject - I don’t remember which, but it wasn’t the sort of thing you learn about in any GCSE. He was clearly expecting them all to be clueless, which TBH they mostly were.

The last he asked was a very scruffy looking young bloke lying on the grass in the park.
’Have you any idea what is meant by X scientific subject?’ asked cocky TV journalist.

‘Yes, actually’ replied scruffy young bloke. ‘I’m a particle physicist.’ 😂😂
The journalist's face was a picture!

We watch it from just as it starts at 6 until about quarter to 7. I don't mind a small amount of fluff. They cover the wars and murders which we aught to be facing as it is The World News. But my god - it seems every singe day at some point in those 45 mns we have to have:

The Big Tear Jerking Story Of The Day.
Along with all maudlin fucking piano music.

Sometimes it's associated with a charity, sometimes simply to make everyone's start to the morning just that extra bit depressing as if the state of the world in general isn't enough !!

AND! Don't get me started on the convoluted attempts to get at least one elderly person to cry on camera at xmas 🙄

I was surprised by the children in the ( school ?) library by 7.30 am all because of World Book Day,
and the next scene looked like a full school assembly all because of world Book Day at 7.30 AM !!!
really !!!
all these parents got up extra early, the staff all come in earlier than usual just because BBC were coming in

After watching BBC Breakfast for many years, I'm afraid I've turned off. They spend far too long on dragging out stories that could be covered in a fraction of the time, too much sports coverage (especially at the weekend when they switch to BBC 2 to show Match of the Day on BBC1 and then proceed to talk about sport on BBC 2 for 15 mins immediately after the switch over) and far too much time covering stories that aren't even stories.

I generally watch the weather, news at the top of the hour and local news, it tends to sit there on pause for ages as I am generally doing something else. I don't bother with the other stuff

Yes! I pause the local weather for DH to wander in and see (affects his work) and sometimes we bloody forget it's been paused and that the time's wrong and sit there and get later and later for work ect 🙄

It's called "BBC breakfast" not "BBC News"

If you want BBC News then put on BBC News.

What a bizarre post. It's like putting on Eastenders then complaining that you wanted The Antiques Roadshow.

Has anyone confirmed weather the BBC News channel plays BBC Breakfast until 9 or not?

I'll be checking in the morning i think. No more maudlin piano music!

The bbc news channel shows bbc breakfast.

No and it is not designed to be. I read somewhere that the average person watch breakfast TV for about 15 minutes. Most people stick it on while getting ready in the morning and then go out to work.

I fully agree OP, in the morning I want proper news not fluff and BBC is serving up fluff. BBC news is showing the same (seems many people don't realise this). I actually tend to put on Radio 4 or if I really want pictures, Sky News.

Oh bum.

Oh well ... back to picking out the bits of actual news between Naga and Charlie snipping at each other 🙄

They do the news between the top of the hour and quarter past, how much news do people want to watch in the morning, that's surely plenty, haven't you got anything else to do, it's hardly watching the latest box set type of telly

BBC Breakfast has never been a serious show, it’s no better than ITV’s offering. It’s possibly even worse in a smug, superior way.

But it's what we pay our licence for and we don't want random kids singing when we want to hear the news!

They were probably singing because of this never ending book day/week

I’d rather start my day with some children singing and a lady from a local charity having a chat to balance things out rather than a constant stream of war, trump, children starving in Palestine.

Until bbc news can work out how to play any local news let alone my own area, I'm stuck with it.

I'm not sitting listening to that "we can't show news in your area" muzak while waiting

I don't want to fanny around changing the channel, we have virgin TV and its shit

How much news do you want to watch in the morning?

Yeah it's better to have people murdered, riots in cities, diseases, famine let's see if the world can make more 'real' news put some effort in people

My MIL is terrible with this. She watches every news programme, has two papers that she reads out and radio 4 on all day, yet still moans about no ' real' news being on. Then moans about how awful the world is now and how depressed she is about it. She was born in a hospital that was bombed to smithereens in WWII days afterwards, presumably killing mothers and children born after her. She seems to have forgotten about the war she lived through! How much news do people need? What do you think is going to change between 7 am and 9am?

Reporting on these things is important, they're not causing it to happen?

I want to know what is happening news wise, not listen to children singing because it's world book day - talking of, WBD I don't recall seeing any other countries taking part? Even that would have been more interesting