It all feels a bit samey to me. Same set (essentially) since Paul Henry launched, similar graphics etc. Really needs a reboot and dare I say it, a new line-up. Paddy Gower would be great.
The radio/tv/online experiment was a bold one, but ultimately I think it has never really been able to capture the best of each individual medium so in effect becomes nothing to nobody.
That would be like putting Simon Barnett on Newstal⌠waitâŚ
I would start by replacing Gillies with Ingrid Hipkiss. Sheâs not afraid to give a differing opinion which they desperately need.
Not a great fan of Ryan Bridge but heâs probably a better fit for breakfast & they can give Garner his old drive show back,if they must.
I thought it really worked for Paul Henry & started to really perform against ZB & Breakfast. But designing the whole thing around Paul Henry was stupid really, wasnât itâŚ
Yeah, youâre right about Paul Henry, it did have a couple (?) of years when it performed well. But it was never going to last given his attention span for projects can be small.
I use to enjoy AM Show when Paul Henry was on
With Garner & Richardson itâs a very angry show if only they could remove the hosts & relaunch it
With a bigger & better set
& stop the simulcast would be a start
Would love to know the ratings of the AM Show
What about bringing back Rawdon Christie and Nadine Higgins as seen on TVNZâs Breakfast four years earlier? And reverting to a more traditional âbreakfast televisionâ format? It would be great, wouldnât it?
I like Nadine Higgins but pairing her again with Rawdon Christie wonât bring any success. There is a reason why TVNZ dropped the pair for a fresh team in 2016.
Iâd be luring Scotty Morrison. Or bringing Kanoa over from The Project.
I reckon Dom Harvey could be the next Paul Henry⌠Plus heâs outgrown The Edge.
The breakfast market is too small to have two very similar competing breakfast shows, look what happened to Sunrise. It struggled to gain traction and ultimately faced the axe ten years ago. Atleast the radio element helps The AM Show differentiate it from Breakfast and could possibly be the only thing keeping the show afloat. On a side note, Breakfast needs to go 7 days a week, its standard practice to have a breakfast show run 7 days a week.
I think Saturdays yes, Sundays no - at least until the outdated advertising ban is dropped.
Just not sure the audience is there either day to justify the outlay.
Does NZ not have any television Morning news programmes on weekends?
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Iâm sure some type of sponsorship can be found or a reworking of the weekday format to suit the weekend audience. We had Saturday Breakfast and that seemed to do well until it lost its Lotto sponsorship. I know its outdated but I kinda enjoy the no ads on a Sunday but like you said this maybe the hindrance for a Weekend Breakfast.
Yup, theres no breakfast television on the weekends here apart from a Saturday morning politics show and a LIVE Sunday bilingual Maori current affairs show Marae. We used to have Saturday breakfast 7-9am but that was axed at the end of 2013. There hasnât been a concerted effort to try and sustain a morning show on weekends and with the covid downturn, it doesnât seem like itâs going to change.
Yeah, Iâm definitely not against the idea.
Itâs hard too because weâve never really âtransitionedâ into being a breakfast TV sort of nation, even Monday-Friday, so that makes it even harder to justify weekend editions. The best rating era of Breakfast was the Paul/Pippa era and I donât think TVNZ realised what it had until it lost it, when Paul went a step too far one day. Especially when they replaced them with Corin and Petra who had no chemistry and were both incredibly dull.
Fair points, we were late to the breakfast tv game with Breakfast launching way back in August 1997 while other markets have had them for quite a while. The Mike Hosking and Kate Hawkesby era 2002-03 was also a high point with the ratings until Bill Ralston broke them up. Breakfast also managed to have a Summer edition many moons ago. I feel they havenât consistently maintained what they had to grow a breakfast tv habit or tried to innovate and draw in the audience. I cringe at the thought of Corin/Petra, please dont remind me of that disaster.
What is the Sunday advertising ban? Sounds bizarre.
Canât advertise on TV between 6a-midday on Sundays, or all day Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day as well as the morning of ANZAC Day. It is, as youâd suspect, outdated and tied into religious values a lot of the country no longer shares.
Having said that, itâs quite nice to have no ads on a few of those days if youâre watching TV!
Seriously??? Bloody hell⌠I can respect maybe some annual traditions ect, but for 6 hours every Sunday morning?
Yeah that is quite odd. I thought we were behind with some things here.