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Farewell to Breakfast

Video: The Chaser team recently paid "tribute" to TEN's Breakfast show, which wraps tomorrow.

Tomorrow TEN’s Breakfast takes its leave from our screens (altogether now, “ohhhh.”).

The Chaser team recently paid “tribute” to the show in a web extra and it seems like the right time to give this a whirl.

Paul Henry, please give us one last headline before that red light goes off?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaaniqIjqeI[/youtube]

22 Responses

  1. @Daniel
    I think someone, suggested Shaun Macalief as a replacement for Henry, even before Ten threw the baby out with the bath water.

    I was very confused on friday, when Kath Robinson made her farewell comments, claiming P Henry was the most misunderstood person around?

    I hope she isn’t actually leaving Ten for medical reasons, such as short to mid term memory loss, as she tried to defend Heny with such a statement?

    I wonder how and after and on many occassions her own, along with many others obvious embarrasment, was being televised across the nation, could she possibly defend this educated quick witted, but sadly venomous,vindictive, erratic loose cannon? and ask Kath just where does she think this misunderstanding came from?

    So in fairness to Kath, and being as smart as she actually is, was she confirming another impression that I have formed, that P Henry is much safer to have as friend, than an Enemy.

  2. @ James 666…..Sorry?!?….I like The Living Room….I have been watching since it is a better time slot….better than B & HG…but given what happens to shows I like…maybe a worry…

  3. Goodbye Breakfast – and goodbye to more shareholder funds.

    Let’s add it to the wonderful list of terrible failures by Lachlan and James – Young Talent Time, The Shire, Lara Bingle, Everybody Dance Now, The Living Room, Breakfast….

    I wonder how many ten’s of millions have been wasted in pursuit of failure.

    Shareholders only know they have lost 80% of their value and to add insult no dividend !!

  4. today’s show was the last one ever. Was there some sort of fanfare / montage at the end of the show?

    And i also agree that there needs to be a breakky / morning type show for 2013.

  5. @David Knox

    Far be it for me to suggest a slight change to your story line David, but if it had been ( hohoho) instead of (ohhhh), it may have better reflected our true feelings, because hohoho to me always brings back fond memories of some the best christmas presents I have ever received,as it will be when I see the last of Henry. (bitter sweet though, for those he has dragged out with him)
    This sits at the Top of my list of presents I could have wished for, and I do thank Ten for that, now if they could just slip The Bolt Report into one the Boxing Day Sales, of course it would have to pre-wrapped as a Mystery Gift or is that Misery Gift?, I would have no need for any other presents this year.

    @ros I totally agree, but unfortunately all the networks are gearing up for a Mit Romney style election campaign, to give us the government they want.

    @Goatracer I totally disagree, untill all networks(All the Media) stop trying to give us the government they want, and fairly report all sides of all stories and let us form our own oppinions, and because of your reactions, this is exactly the problem we have, and ask why does it have to be from one extreem to another, what has happened to indepth investigative reporting presented in an unbiased way, and it is indeed strange where the same media vigorously rebel against censorship and cite the values for the freedom of the press etc. but think nothing of witholding facts discovered( or leaked) that do not suit their objectives?

  6. @ros, So what you are effectively suggesting is just turning it into the media division of the Labor/Communist(Green) party just a 24 hour a day “Project”

  7. Anyone got thoughts/ideas for Ten’s new breakfast show?

    This ain’t gonna happen but I’d love a Melbourne-based panel show anchored by Shaun Micallef, Waleed Aly, Magdalena Roze, and Nicole Livingstone.

    Run from 7am-10am after some early news with a studio audience. The live audience factor is what makes The Circle and The Project work so well.

    Do it TEN!

  8. Ten should now take the opportunity of starting with a clean slate and also get rid of Lachlan Murdoch, James Warburton, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Bolt and the guy from New Zealand they appointed as news director. This is my Xmas wish.

  9. I will miss Breakfast! Yes Henry was opinionated, arrogant perhaps but so are the other male cohosts on 7&9. I hope a new 2.5 hr Breakfast show on 10 returns with fresh content each day (yes news is repeated) but I find the brief snippets I caught it had new segments rather than recycle same old stuff! Plus there was very little American gossip.
    Note to 7&9 improve what you’ve got! 10 learn and improve on B’fast, don’t copy 7&9!

  10. It’s a shame that Kath and Magdalena, both competent presenters, are now down a gig.

    Paul Henry is a case of “nothing of value was lost”. How Ten didn’t know this, when we’ve all be screaming it for 9 months, is a mystery.

    Natasha Exelby is in the same boat, she can’t read an auto-cue for peanuts. She looks like she’s swallowed a fly when she reads the news, it’s embarrassing.

  11. Good riddens, but you can blame Henry hosting the show on Lachlan Murdoch, who’s the one that came up with the idea of hiring him.

    3 breakfast shows on 2, 7 and 9 is probably enough for our small population, but if Ten wanted to try launching another breakfast show, I wouldn’t oppose it, but it’d have to be on 7 days a week, not just on weekdays and also be 3 hours long.

  12. What seems to have been overlooked in all the discussions and announcements about the demise of Ten’s Breakfast (and it really was a badly conceived and ill-advised concept), and Paul Henry’s removal from Australian screens, is that Kathryn Robinson is now out of work too.

    I thought that, given a decent co-host, she could have done well in this slot. She coped admirably in the face of Henry’s ridiculous rants, often saying what the rest of us were thinking, and she has proven herself on other Ten shows in the past too. It seems a pity that she has been let go, and probably made a scapegoat for Breakfast’s failure too.

    Here’s hoping that she gets a better offer from another network soon.

  13. I don’t know anymore probably his annoying accent and maybe we were just not ready for a Kiwi that came across so strong but having said that at least he had an opinion that was not necessarily the politically correct one that is rammed down our throats.
    Compared to the Muppets on the other two commercial networks at least he had the courage of his convictions even if we didn’t like some of them.

  14. If Ten still embraced “You blogged, we listened” they would never have injected the poison that is Paul Henry into a program that was going to be the third wheel of Morning Shows and was therefore going to struggle for traction anyway.

    That the people responsible for this, and the plethora of other woeful decisions this year that have sunk Ten firmly into fourth place, still have their jobs is unfathomable. In any other industry they would have fallen on their sword with some honour or been given the boot.

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