After 20 years, Big Breakfast Show returns on Channel 4. Read details here

The Big Breakfast Show had made presenters like Gaby Roslin and Chris Evans extremely famous in the early 90s. Paula Yates would lie in her bed and interview people while Zig and Zag, the two puppets, were loved by the audience. The house, which used to host the show, has been sold long ago but now the programme is being relaunched in a new avatar.

This time TV presenter AJ Odudu and humour specialist Mo Gilligan have been roped in to give a buzzing start to the show. Earlier, the all-white theme of the show has been scrapped to include a more cosmopolitan and modern outlook of including non-whites as presenters. Though the casual approach of the show has been maintained and the extreme embarrassing humour has been done away with.

Mo Gilligan was of the opinion that it might appear that Black folks are taking over the world for some viewers but the current show encourages a mix and modernity. They have also included different types of people to add the flavour of a mixed opinion and display diverse backgrounds, added Odudu. Channel 4 had started with a single show first with Judi Love as a presenter and then completed four more episodes last year.




In the 90s, breakfast TV, also called morning shows, was mainly about current affairs and showcasing lifestyle and Bob Geldof’s Planet 24 began its show with a completely different theme. The show changed the way people viewed morning shows and the Big Breakfast got very high ratings amongst viewers. The show was peppered with Zig and Zag, a rather rude puppet couple and snide remarks and rather whacky humour. The show motivated Posh Spice to say that David Beckham rather secretively wore her knickers for instance.

Odudu said that he often got late to school due to watching the Big Breakfast and he loved the snide remarks and happiness that the show broadcasted. He felt it was a positive way to start the day with loads of laughter and he wishes to replicate that in the new version as well.

Gilligan was a presenter for the “Lateish Show” in 2019 and also one of the hosts on the Big 'Narstie Show', while Odudu is the host for the reality show “The Bridge”. This duo would be having famous people as part of the show while Judi Love will be doing the interview from her bed aka Paula Yates. Melvin Odoom and Harriet Rose will be out on the streets associating with the general public and Phil Gayle would be returning to rattle out the headlines every morning.

The show is all out to garner a lot of viewers like in the past and hopefully would be a success. Bringing in different people and famous people would add to the quality and the glamour to retain viewership.