diana moran, the so—called �*green goddess. really expanding there this morning. there was news, of course, but it came a definite second to entertainment, priorities that were reversed in 1986 with the introduction of desks, chairs and heavyweight journalistic presenters. that approach was reflected a couple of years later by a change of name to breakfast news before another rebranding in the year 2000, when it became just breakfast. good morning. welcome to our brand new programme. a further reinvention came with a move to salford in 2012, but now where next for breakfast as it enters its fifth decade? we'll be exploring those questions in a moment with the editor of breakfast. but first, a selection of your views about the show, starting with this compliment from jason pollitt.

in recent years, breakfast has become known for a focus on campaigns around health issues, such as a series of items on former rugby league player rob burrow, who has motor neurone disease. here's a couple of examples from the past few days. tim, andy and mike, the three dads walking. each lost a daughter to suicide in september. in september, they walked between all four uk parliaments, calling for suicide prevention to become a compulsory part of the school curriculum. the idea of doddy8 is to do any exercise you want swimming, running, cycling, anything and record it on the doddie aid app. every individual bit of exercise done is counted on the app and then added to a leaderboard. now, in its third year, doddie aid has already raised a remarkable £2

million for research. features like those don't go down well with all the audience. here's one viewer who got in touch with us. hello. i'm a big fan of bbc breakfast and have been watching for many, many years, but lately it seems that it's become very one—note in terms of reports on campaigning. i'm in awe of the work that mnd campaigners do, i'm in awe of the work that mnd campaigners do, for example, and the ladies who went across, i think, the north sea or the atlantic and the dads who've been highlighting suicide problems among young men. it's wonderful, but it seems that bbc breakfast will pick up the story and just follow it maybe once or twice a week for absolutely ages, and you'll have a package with the film and then you'll have a studio interview and the reports seem to be getting longer and longer. peter pollock echoed that, begging:

louisa 0'brien added: 0thers object to the amount of airtime given to guests publicising a new book, film or television series. here's some more clips from the past week. simon, i'm going to ask you lots of very in—depth questions about the whole show and everything. but the first one has to be about the hair. wow. i mean, that's like a whole character in itself. it is, yeah. tell us about the show. how does it work? how do you put these celebrity couples through the tasks? - your play is all about manners. do you want to? it is worth explaining. do you want to just explain this? you do it better. the play's written by - steven moffat of sherlock fame, of course. keith grant was one of a number of viewers objecting to interviews such as those:

and joe chandler expressed concern about the recent focus on one particular book: plenty there to discuss with the editor of bbc breakfast, richard fredianelli. thank you so much for coming on newswatch. it's lovely to have you here along with the rest of bbc news, i think it's fair to say you've done a lot about prince harry in the past couple of weeks. too much? we have, we have done a lot, but we've done far more on the cost of living or the health crisis facing the national health service across the uk. prince harry's story is a story of genuine interest.

look at how many books he sold in the last few days. it's a story that the viewers will react to. and i would argue, is it about we've done too much or is there just a subjective appeal about whether we should be doing it at all? ultimately, we live in a constitutional monarchy. prince harry is part of that. and therefore, what he has to say about his own life, the life of his relationship with prince william, the king and others, is going to be of interest and in some case, in some parts of it may be of significant news value. people see all those interviews, which we gave examples of, with celebrities plugging their new book or their new play or their new film or their tv show, and they think it's just free advertising and it's all coming at the expense of real news. what do you say? well, look, we're a topical news programme, so we do a mix of news but other issues and issues that matter to the audience and an audience's life is filled with many different events and shades of what they do. so, for instance, as well as the issues that matter to them on a day to day basis,

such as health and cost of living, they're watching television at home. so whether it's happy valley that rates at 5 or 6 million and they're interested in the story of the character that the lead role in happy valley is based on, or, for instance, johnny vegas came on earlier this week, ostensibly to talk about a new programme he was is in. but actually the interview ended up talking about his recent diagnosis of adhd, of which we've got a huge recent diagnosis of adhd, of which we got a huge amount of viewer feedback praising us for discussing that issue so openly. which leads onto my next question, which is the health related charity campaigns, which are slightly different to the news story that you just gave an example of. those campaigns have become regular part of breakfast. and as you know, there are viewers who feel that there's ample space for this sort of thing after 9:15am and again, it's just too much of it on breakfast, which is, they think, a news programme. look, i'm grateful to the millions of viewers who tune in to bbc breakfast every single morning and make us the number one choice. and they're always, always going to be a divide about stories that. you believe we should

and shouldn't cover in terms of those issues, such as what i would say is about raising awareness. i mean, look at kevin sinfield. it began two years ago as going out for a run with six people and ended up with 67,000 people and several million on television cheering him into the final, the rugby league world cup final, after he'd run seven ultramarathons in seven days. but what it did was focus and attention on that issue. we've done the same with prostate cancer. we had viewers contacting us about a guy called garry mccarthy who had run 365 marathons in 365 days because he wanted to raise awareness about macmillan —— because he wanted to raise awareness about macmillan cancer. and they were saying to us, why aren't you giving him more attention? we think he should be celebrated because you know what? these are people doing extraordinary things to raise awareness and help millions, literally, of other people. do you see breakfast as the news or as an entertainment show? it's a topical news programme that has a mix of everything for viewers in different ways.

it's not like the six 0'clock news. it's not the ten 0'clock news. and that's notjust true of us. but i look across the media landscape at breakfast time, and whether you're talking about us or any of our rivals, you see that same sort of mix at breakfast. i can onlyjudge it based on the reaction we get from our audience, and that's why programmes like newswatch are of value. the emails we get in, the tweets that i see, the audiences contacting viewer complaints. we take all those things on board. i think, look, news is often subjective to many people. everybody has a view about what you should and shouldn't cover. people have a view about what issues you should and shouldn't cover. 0n newswatch. it's a subjective industry and we take a view about the issues we think we should cover, the stories we should cover, often based on audience interaction. and when we do that, i think it gives the audience a range of stories that they enjoy on a daily basis. do you think that one of the reasons there are more complaints we were wondering is because so much of breakfast is now simulcast on the news

channel, and people watching the news channel, you know, they used to know if i turn on the news. i'll get a news bulletin, essentially with news interviews. and they don't get that anymore. well, look, breakfast has been on the news channel since, what, 2000, right? 95% of our audience is on is on bbc one. just a very small section of it is on the news channel. and the only comparison i can give you is there's only one time of the week when we're exclusively on the news channel and not on bbc one. and that's on a sunday morning when bbc one plays much of the day highlights ataround 7:30. and you know what? the number one choice from 7:30 till 9:00 on a sunday morning ahead of any other news channel by a significant level is bbc breakfast on the bbc news channel. so we clearly are doing something that the audience appreciate. newswatch, of course, as you said yourself, goes out during breakfast on saturdays, which we love. we get a big audience, sometimes covering complaints about breakfast. is it weird for you? i don't think it's weird. i think there's a challenge for newswatch, which isjust because you're on breakfast, does that mean that the audience always feel

like you're the regulator and monitor of breakfast? and i think the challenge is to make sure that you cover complaints about all range of bbc programmes. look, i don't think it is. i think it's right that you exist. i think it's right that the audience is views are reflected and i think it's right that people like me are held to account. richard, thank you so much for coming on newswatch. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media email newswatch@bbc.co.uk or you can find us on twitter at @newswatchbbc. you can call us on 0370106676 and do you have a look at previous interviews on our website, bbc.co.uk? newswatch. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye.

well, so far, january 2023 has been very wet indeed with above average rainfall for many. we've seen some localised flooding. river levels running very high, some of them breaching their banks altogether across southern and western parts of the uk, so a number of flood warnings continue to remain in force across the uk. head online to see where they are. however, as we move through this weekend, the rain will clear away. it will turn a bit brighter but a very different feel to the weather. for part two of the weekend and into next week, things are set to be much colder — the risk of ice, snow and frost. now, this area of low pressure brings wet and windy weather across much of the uk to start saturday. early on saturday, that rain will be very heavy and persistent across southern and western areas — up to 70 millimetres of rain, in fact. the northern half of scotland will see clear spells and scattered showers which will be of a wintry flavour as it will be cold here but milder further south. so, a very wet, windy start to our saturday morning across much of the country. eventually, that rain will tend to clear away but it'll leave a legacy — standing water, atrocious road conditions exacerbated flooding as well across some southern and western areas. but it brightens up into the afternoon.

plenty of showers rattling through the northern half of the uk. wintry on the hills. it'll be colder here. the last dregs of the milder air hold on across the south—east but it doesn't last. through saturday night, the colder air wins out. clear spells, blustery showers, long spells of rain across the northern half of the country. increasingly wintry, notjust to higher ground — even down some lower levels across northern scotland. it will be a chillier night across the board. so, sunday's looking colder. we're all in that arctic air. then, you can see from the blue colours here, the white speckles indicating snow showers which will be affecting primarily the northern half of scotland. this weather front will bring a mixture of rain, perhaps a bit of sleet over higher ground for parts of northern ireland into parts of north wales, north west england, into the midlands as well. elsewhere, plenty of sunshine, top and tail of that weather front, but there will be some snow showers feeding into northern scotland, some of these down to lower levels as it will be a cold day right across the board —

single—figure values there. factor in the wind, it'll feel even colder than that. so, into next week, it stays much colderfor a time. the risk of overnight frost and ice and increasing chance of snow in places. some of that snow might be disruptive sunday night into monday, particularly across central and southern parts of the uk, so stay tuned to the forecast. but the general theme is as we move through the week, temperatures begin to recover again towards the end of the week.

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