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- Tue May 11, 2010 8:55 am
#409866
Very good watch. The Chris Evans segment was going to be an important one for me because that was the first Breakfast Show I was hooked on (I'd heard a bit of Steve Wright on the primary school bus but never got into it), and was pleasantly surprised at how much admiration Chris had for his tenure. I remembered loving it at the time but all the negative stories since had made me question whether it was really that good or whether I'd just been young enough to like anything back then.
Weirdly I didn't mind Mark and Lard and stuck with the show for their 7 months... I agreed at the time though that something about it just didn't click.
Moving on, and you'll have to excuse my rant as I know I've made a similar one before, but I was disappointed to see Kevin Greening's contribution marginalised yet again. Why do they always do this? He presented the show with Zoe for nearly a year, as a partner. From what I remember, together they saved the show and brought the ratings back. A few months in they did a Radio Times cover (and interview) and Kev appeared on Live and Kicking as Zoe's guest. I get (and also got at the time) that Kevin was placed there to help Zoe's radio career kick off as she lacked experience in the technical department, but in practice it really was a double act, and in fact much of the humour in the show came from him and the style he had been using the previous 3 years on the station, so it wasn't simply a case of her presenting and him pressing the buttons. However, last night we had "Zoe Ball, 98-2000", when of course she actually started (with Kevin) the previous year.
It could have been worse... I was grateful for the clips and mentions of him of course (usually in the context of sorting things out when Zoe wasn't doing her job properly), but in contrast - and very much as I expected - it was nothing compared to the massive buildup and talk devoted to the worn-out "When Zoe met Norman" story.
Sara Cox's appearance was interesting, but seeing her now in contrast to those newspaper clippings and early 2000s footage reminded me how much I couldn't stand her at the time. Hers was the only show I basically gave up on. I also hadn't been a fan of Moyles in any of his previous stints, so him being her replacement didn't tempt me back until 2006. Since then he's almost single-handedly renewed my love for the station after quite a few years of disillusionment.
I have some wonderful memories of the R1 breakfast show and the documentary covered many of them (as well as doing a brilliant job of informing me about the years before my time), but looking back I have as much distaste for the late nineties/early 2000s "Ladette" era (I mean in the media as a whole, not just the show) now as I did then. I understand it was very much of its time and essential for the doco to cover it, but I thank God those days are over...
Weirdly I didn't mind Mark and Lard and stuck with the show for their 7 months... I agreed at the time though that something about it just didn't click.
Moving on, and you'll have to excuse my rant as I know I've made a similar one before, but I was disappointed to see Kevin Greening's contribution marginalised yet again. Why do they always do this? He presented the show with Zoe for nearly a year, as a partner. From what I remember, together they saved the show and brought the ratings back. A few months in they did a Radio Times cover (and interview) and Kev appeared on Live and Kicking as Zoe's guest. I get (and also got at the time) that Kevin was placed there to help Zoe's radio career kick off as she lacked experience in the technical department, but in practice it really was a double act, and in fact much of the humour in the show came from him and the style he had been using the previous 3 years on the station, so it wasn't simply a case of her presenting and him pressing the buttons. However, last night we had "Zoe Ball, 98-2000", when of course she actually started (with Kevin) the previous year.
It could have been worse... I was grateful for the clips and mentions of him of course (usually in the context of sorting things out when Zoe wasn't doing her job properly), but in contrast - and very much as I expected - it was nothing compared to the massive buildup and talk devoted to the worn-out "When Zoe met Norman" story.
Sara Cox's appearance was interesting, but seeing her now in contrast to those newspaper clippings and early 2000s footage reminded me how much I couldn't stand her at the time. Hers was the only show I basically gave up on. I also hadn't been a fan of Moyles in any of his previous stints, so him being her replacement didn't tempt me back until 2006. Since then he's almost single-handedly renewed my love for the station after quite a few years of disillusionment.
I have some wonderful memories of the R1 breakfast show and the documentary covered many of them (as well as doing a brilliant job of informing me about the years before my time), but looking back I have as much distaste for the late nineties/early 2000s "Ladette" era (I mean in the media as a whole, not just the show) now as I did then. I understand it was very much of its time and essential for the doco to cover it, but I thank God those days are over...
