Well, I’m very happy about this decision. I second that this is the best and most obvious choice. I can see Today putting up a good fight for the #1 spot next year.
For those interested, there’s a pretty cool BTS look at the announcement on GG’s Instagram “story”.
And here is their official first promo-shoot together as co-hosts… exciting times ahead.
Knew it. Told you all. Great news! I was invited to the set a few years back when she was news reader and I was taken aback that she actually came over to me and asked about myself. Very genuine person and witty as hell! Will give Karl a run for his money.
He didn’t say will, he said they will have a better shot than ever before.
I guess some viewers are just looking for a change after 10 years of Karl and Lisa. You have to go through some form of change at some time. IIRC, the ratings for Sunrise declined for a long time before Mel was dumped, and rose again when Sam was appointed. Whatever you say, Karl and Georgie hosting Today will probably be beneficial in the long term as far as ratings are concerned.
I don’t know if a Karl & Georgie-fronted Today will outrate Sunrise on a national/five city metro basis in 2018, but I can see both shows being very competitive in the ratings for much of next year.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I personally thought it took a couple of years for Sunrise to properly establish itself in the market and beat Today in the ratings.
Knowing Nine, they’d probably pick someone like Karl’s brother or Ben Fordham. No thanks!
Same can be said for Kochie & Sam on Sunrise, if we’re being honest.
I personally think the most popular presenters of the breakfast TV shows would be Melissa Doyle, Lisa Wilkinson (when those two were on every morning, of course), Natalie Barr, Mark Beretta and maybe Georgie Gardner and Deborah Knight. The rest seem quite polarising to “you either immensely love or loathe them” levels, particularly male co-hosts and roving weather reporters!
The question is; Who is going to switch to Today as a result of Lisa leaving and being replaced by Georgie? I can’t see the show gaining any viewers directly; it needs to change in other ways to improve its relative position to Sunrise IMO (and I don’t mean new graphics!).
I do find it ironic that Sunrise booted Georgie and replaced her with Melissa Doyle all those years ago! Now Georgie gets her opportunity on Today and Mel is long gone.
When did we start to publish TV stars salaries? and who is leaking this stuff? It’s just another clickbait outrage headline for people to have a say over even though they would never earn that much themselves.