TEN to Wake Up with “Tash, Tarsh & Matho”
Natarsha Belling, Natasha Exelby & James Mathison will front TEN's new breakfast show, Wake Up.
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Natarsha Belling, Natasha Exelby and James Mathison will front TEN’s return to breakfast television in the Adam Boland-produced Wake Up.
They will broadcast weekdays from Queenscliff Surf Club at Manly Beach with Nuala Hafner reading News from a Melbourne CBD glass-studio location, which is yet to be announced.
As yet there is no launch date for the new TEN venture and broadcast times are yet to be confirmed but Boland indicated block programming from “about 5 in the morning until midday.”
The new line-up was presented at a Press Conference earlier today at the Sebel in Sydney ahead of TEN’s Winter Party event tonight. No announcements were made for the untitled morning show programme featuring Ita Buttrose and Joe Hildebrand. More presenters are yet to be announced.
“If you picture Sunrise and Today as AM Radio, how do you do an FM Version on TV? That was the starting point but it has evolved somewhat since then,” he said.
“Essentially you’re looking at the same show across both channels.
“From our point of view we wanted to be intentionally different.
“There’s something about a beach that just puts you in the right frame of mind.
“From the moment we walked in we knew we had the right place. You get these extraordinary panoramic views down the headlands, and think about, at that time of morning you have your fitness freaks, yoga classes, surfers who will be catching waves. So that becomes our live set every single morning.”
Boland says his team of three females and one male was based not on gender but their chemistry.
“Chemistry is everything in breakfast television. You only have to look at the last Breakfast show to work that out,” he said.
“We were really open-minded. We tried a variety of combinations: high-profile people, low-profile people, people from other networks, people from our own network, people from interstate.
“By the end of the first week it was pretty clear we were not going to be a double-header, a typical male / female show.
“We stumbled across something that was genuinely special.”
Boland says of Natarsha Belling and Natasha Exelby “One is married, one is single, one is a little bit conservative, the other is not. Together to me they are dynamite and they are mates.”
Wake Up is promising to have a looser feel than other breakfast shows, booking fewer guests, having concerts at Manly and drawing upon social media through its 4 social media producers. The show has entered into “strategic partnerships with Twitter.”
TEN’s Head of News and Current Affairs Anthony Flannery adds, “Australia will find Wake Up fun, informative and different. We hope viewers will let us become party of their mornings, and enjoy the show as much as we will enjoy making it.”
Both Wake Up and the unannounced morning show will launch together this year.
48 Responses
One thing is for sure. Adam Boland knows how to select good chemistry.
The key to sucsess of Ita’s morning program will not to recycle its content from this breakfast show, much like The Morning Show and Mornings.
If both programs can provide seperate, entertaining, engaging and informative content, with a few points of difference to their rivals, they will work.
If they do not work, but I think they will, Ten should consider itself done and dusted in Morning Television. These shows require a lot of investment and planning and you can only get it wrong so many times before the competition and the public begin to think you are foolish.
My prediction is this show will get an audience of between 120-150,000 which is enough to satisfy its existance.
Anything much less after a year or so on air would be embarassing for Ten and Adam Boland
I wish one of these would be in Melbourne.
Best of luck to them. Entertainment based breakfast TV is quite a rarity and much missed here in the UK, where The Big Breakfast broke the mould of note just breakfast TV but TV as a whole back in the 90s, and mornings just haven’t been the same since it was axed.
“Essentially you’re looking at the same show across both channels.”
That’s an interesting comment by Boland since he’s regarded as the main reason for success of one of them.
Or does he mean since he’s departure have the 2 shows morphed into the one?
I would give it a try.
@Dr Rudi I’d have no trouble at all waking up to the delightful Miss Exelby either!!
I’m sorry, but anything that has James Mathison in it has no hope of being successful, the guy’s hopeless.
Well, someone has to say it. I’d love to wake up to Natarsha Belling.
“Tash, Tarsh, and Matho” sounds like a Polish children’s schoolyard game.
Oh please. If Today & Sunrise are AM, Wake Up will be the radio station i used to help run at high school.
Really love all the hosts but not the name. Welcome to “wake up” just doesn’t grab me. No flow to it. If the show dies, there will be lots of wake jokes.
Wonder if Today will continue with “Wake Up with Today”. Wonder if Wake Up will go with “Wake Up” with Wake Up”. My tip is that the show will work.
Please, please, please let this work for Ten. I had high hopes for Breakfast and was bitterly disappointing.
I do quite both Tarsh and Tash… I hope they challenge each other every now and then.
It will be interesting to see how the Melbourne audience respond to a Sydney Beach front? Hence the reason why they are basing the news presenter in Melbourne…
If they want to be different they should base it all in Melbourne. I’m a fan of Nuala Hafner. Overall I’m looking forward to this!
With a title like that, I was expecting Jeff from The Wiggles to be the host.
Time will tell.
I knew Boland would be all over Exelby after the giggling fit a few weeks back. Lol!
Look, I’m not sure about this, I can’t help but think it needs a big name to get the punters in.
Hopefully ten let Boland do what he did at seven and just leave him there and see if the show grows. It can’t do any worse than their last foray into breakfast.
This sounds good! I love Nuala Hafner, so I’ll definitely be watching.
Today is horrid and now that Mel has been given the boot from Sunrise, I really don’t want to watch.
Why read the news from a separate location? Weird
Ten calling Natasha Exelby “a little bit conservative” is hugely undermining just how right wing she has consistently proven to be. She is Australia’s very own Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
A great choice with the two girls. James might grow on me. I like the Syd / Melb link. Good they are trying to be different. Well done Ten….sounds like its definitely worth a a try. 5am to midday – Wow. Hopefully this works and ten can build some success off it into prime time.
Sound interesting. Bring in on I say.
1st mistake Adam Boland has made is basing the show in Sydney Again. It should be based in Melbourne.
It sounds like a good format, but I can never sit through a breakfast show.
Tash and Tarsh maybe a bit of a challenge to get right.
Looks interesting. not sure about James though, but at least it has a younger feel to it. a surf club? sounds more like an episode of Home And Away.
I’m guessing Joe Hilderbrands morning show will be titled Nap time?