- Chris Evans Breakfast Show
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The Chris Evans Breakfast Show Genre Talk; Music Running time Weekdays 6.30am-9.30am Country 
United KingdomLanguages English Home station BBC Radio 2 Hosts Chris Evans Recording studio Western House, London Air dates since 11 January 2010 Audio format FM and Digital radio Website Official site Podcast Official podcast The Chris Evans Breakfast Show is the flagship show on BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom. It is presented by Chris Evans from 11 January 2010, when Evans took over from Sir Terry Wogan who ended his stint as Breakfast presenter at the end of 2009. The programme airs from 6:30am to 9:30am on weekdays[1] It was confirmed on 7 September that Evans would succeed Wogan when he retired as presenter of the breakfast show in December.[2] On 6 January 2010, it was announced that Moira Stuart would return to BBC News, reading the news for the Chris Evans Breakfast Show.[3] The previous sports presenter Jonny Saunders was mysteriously absent from the Chris Evans Breakfast show from Tuesday 14th to Thursday 16th June 2011. It was revealed on Friday 17th June that he had been away revising for and taking an Open University exam in English Literature as he would be leaving the show on July 8th 2011 in order to become a teacher. Saunders was replaced by Vassos Alexander when the team returned on 25th July 2011.
Contents
The show
The first three songs played on the show were The Beatles tracks "All You Need Is Love" and "Got To Get You Into My Life"; and also Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me".
Chris's team of co-presenters on the show include ex-BBC TV newsreader Moira Stuart, sports presenter Vassos Alexander and travel reporter Lynn Bowles. There are also sometimes roving reports from Joe Schmo (aka Joe Haddow) from various locations in the UK.
Features on the show include:
- Big Screen Belters - a theme tune from a movie, e.g. Diamonds are Forever
- Gobsmackers — two songs selected by a listener that sound great when played back to back at 8.45am
- Head to Headlines — Vassos and Moira each choose three news stories each day, and Evans decides which of the stories is better in three head-to-head rounds per day (~8.25am read to Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones)
- Listener Breaking News — listeners contact the show with pieces of their own news; Evans reads a selection at 8.10am to the theme music The Adventures of Black Beauty (previously the theme to Jurassic Park) playing in the background
- 70s Smasher - a classic song from the 1970s is played every day after the news at 8.30am
- Moira's Golden Oldie — Moira Stuart reads out the request for a classic song selected by a listener after the news at at 7.30am
- Top Tenuous — Listers texts and emails with tenuous connections to an event, object or celebrity read to the theme tune to The Naked Gun movies at about 9.10am
Regular songs include "The Candy Man" by Sammy Davis Jr., which is played every Friday after the news at 8.00am.
Stand in presenters
Evans' stand in presenters have included Graham Norton and Richard Allinson, Richard Madeley, Miranda Hart and Jon Holmes. In October 2011 the show attracted criticism after Hart and Holmes co-hosted it for a week while Chris Evans was on holiday. The website Digital Spy reported that some listeners were unhappy with the quality of the programme. The BBC issued a statement in response saying, "Miranda Hart is one of the UK's best-loved comedians and BBC Radio 2 felt it appropriate to bring her warmth to its audience for a week. Jon Holmes is a highly experienced presenter from BBC Radio 6 Music [...] BBC Radio 2 appreciates if their presentation wasn't to everyone's liking, but feels it's important to be able to bring new talent to its output and hopes its audience understands the importance of maintaining a breadth of content on the network."[4]
It now appears that Richard Madeley is going to be the main stand in presenter after it was annouced he would be back sitting in for Evans for two weeks from 27th December 2011.
When Moira Stuart has taken a break from reading the news she was replaced in 2010 for two weeks by Selina Scott and in 2011 she was replaced by Evans' former Big Breakfast newsreader Phil Gayle for three weeks in October and November.
See also
References
- ^ BBC extends Chris Evans breakfast show Digital Spy, 4 October 2010
- ^ "Sir Terry to leave breakfast show". BBC News. 7 September 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8241101.stm. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
- ^ Macadam, Daniel (6 January 2010). "Moira Stuart returns to read news on Chris Evans show". Press Gazette. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44858&c=1. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
- ^ Daniels, Colin (8 October 2011). "BBC responds to Miranda Hart complaint". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/news/a344503/bbc-responds-to-miranda-hart-complaints.html. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
External links
Categories:- BBC Radio 2 programmes
- United Kingdom radio show stubs
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