God knows how we got on air!’ 40 glorious, disastrous years of breakfast TV

God knows how we got on air!’ 40 glorious, disastrous years of breakfast TV

‘Some people think TV in the morning is decadent and sinful. It’s not!’ … the BBC Breakfast Time team (clockwise from top left) Francis Wilson, Debbie Rix, David Icke, Nick Ross, Selina Scott and Frank Bough.
‘Some people think TV in the morning is decadent and sinful. It’s not!’ … the BBC Breakfast Time team (clockwise from top left) Francis Wilson, Debbie Rix, David Icke, Nick Ross, Selina Scott and Frank Bough. Photograph: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy

It all started with one man in a velour V-neck. But thanks to the Green Goddess, Roland Rat, Parki and Anne and Nick, British breakfast TV became legendary. Stars recall four decades of early-morning highs, lows and record-breaking snogs

The BBC’s Breakfast Time, helmed by Bough, Selina Scott and Nick Ross, was Europe’s first breakfast show, 31 years after NBC’s Today launched in the US. Previously, morning TV had been restricted to Open University and schools programming – or nothing at all.

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