The new Breakfast hosts
October 18th, 2010 at 1:15 pm by David FarrarRachel Glucina lists the possibilities:
Riddle me this, amigos: If Oliver Driver killed his own television breakfast show why would TVNZ bosses hire him for theirs?
Replacing the right leaning politically incorrect Paul Henry with left leaning Oliver Driver would be a sure fire way to piss off viewers. Driver was okay on TV3 as he fitted that channel’s liberal brand. But the brand for TVNZ Breakfast is way different.
The new Pippa
Bernadine Oliver-Kerby
Heather Du Plessis-Allan
Joanna Hunkin
Kate Hawkesby
Rachel Smalley
Stacy Daniels
Renee Wright
April Ieremia
Charlotte Ryan
Shavaughn Ruakere
Kate Rodger
If Paul Henry was still hosting Breakfast, then I think Heather DPA would be a great match for him. She wouldn’t take any of his shit, but wouldn’t be offended by what he says. Even without Paul, I think she’d be good in the role.
I liked Kate Hawkesby when she did it with Mike Hosking. Also Bernadine Oliver-Kirby displays a good sense of humour.
The new Paul
Paul Holmes
Jeremy Corbett
Dominic Harvey
Duncan Garner
Jack Tame
Mikey Havoc
Greg Boyed
John Tamihere
Jeremy Wells
Jay Reeve
Rod Cheeseman
If Paul Holmes can handle the early starts, I think he’s be an obvious choice. Paul’s style would be a very good fit for Breakfast, and he is well versed at being entertaining and amusing.
Jeremy Wells would be hilarious but I imagine he would get sacked for saying something outraegous soon or later.
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October 18th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Tao Wells reckons he’s the man for the job
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4242462/Artist-says-hes-the-man-for-Paul-Henry-role
The only problem with that is that he would have to work!!
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Kate Hawkesby… biggest milf in NZ!
And a LOL at Oliver Driver…. if you wanted to kill yourself but lacked the courage, listening to that Labour/NZF fanboy for 3 hours would do the trick. What a boring commie.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
DFP,
Why on earth would we want them to replace one clown with another? – Paul for Paul
It’s bad enough having to suffer through him on Q&A just to see if, just perhaps, there might be a shred of information worth getting from the programme. It generally improves when Espiner starts interviewing (which is not to claim him as perfect.)
Why not put Heather DPA in charge and have some junior male as her sidekick? Would make a refreshing change and certainly couldn’t make a woeful show any worse.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Havoc and Newsboy! :p
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
April Ireremia????
The sports news presenter who famously introduced a piece about the English FA Cup as “the Fa’a cup”
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Laws would be fantastic doing that job.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
The trouble with Heather DPA is her very poor eyesight. You would probably have to ring a bell or something to let her know where the camera is.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
the only thing that was good about Oli Driver was his beautiful collie he had with him. He should stick to plays.
Vote:Wells would be good but as mentioned he would be goneburger pretty quick. Most the others would also be too risky and they can no longer afford risk.
I would continue to rotate the hosts position to give up and comers exposure on occasions. Same with the female side.
I would like to see more of Elvis’s love child, Renee Wright
October 18th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Bernadine Oliver-Kerby
YES!!!
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
All the men on that list look terrible, Wells aside.
Breakfast is definitely going down without Henry
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Who has the time to watch TV in the morning?
No wonder the economy is shit, no ones working they are watching fucking TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Ali Ikram to replace Paul Henry. He’s a real Kiwi too!
[DPF: Ali would be great also IMO. Really funny guy]
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Gotta be Michael Laws…
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Yes Pauleastbay (at 1:44), it is quite sad.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Noooo. Enough with the TVNZ identikit blondes already.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Pork Chop interviews her type-writer again.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
I was a little surprised David posted something from PC
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Well if Driver got the job he might install his old sidekick Lisa Lewis, it would be some consolation for her narrowly missing out on the Hamilton mayoral race.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Appointing Driver would be a death sentance. For the the show as well.
She needs a cranial/rectum exteracectomy.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I think a Slater/Locke team would be a ratings grabber.
We’d need to find new people for the second day of course.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Perhaps a reality TV contest to choose a completely new host from outside of the existing celebrity gene pool. I believe TV2 used a reality TV contest to choose a replacement for children’s TV host Tamati when he moved to breakfast.
It would be important for it NOT to be a popular vote contest or at the very least let the judges have final say on all eliminations. The popular vote would give a very poor result.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Why not put Heather DPA in charge and have some junior male as her sidekick? Would make a refreshing change and certainly couldn’t make a woeful show any worse.
There DOES seem to be an assumption a male will be the ‘lead’…
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Jeremy Wells would be great.
What about Alison Mau? whats she doing? (apart from chicks
)
Kate Hawkesby seems to have personaility.
[DPF: Ali is not on the list because I think the hours don't suit her. Otherwise yes she'd be great - as she was when she did it]
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Or how about Slater & Lewis ? Would bring to life :
“It’s just another manic Monday
I wish it were Sunday
‘Cause that’s my funday
My I don’t have to runday
It’s just another manic Monday ”
They would certainly be an interesting team on elimination.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
stephen,
Yeah, history shows us that’s what will happen. Aside from any other reason why it should change, a simple look at the list of possibles for the males is a good reason for changing.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Yeah! Whaleoil would rock…hes on the market so come on TVNZ….really cause a stir.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
“What about Alison Mau?” – yes how about 2 female presenters ? Would be an interesting idea, shake up the gender stereotypes. Find a female equivalent of Paul Henry – a women with an interviewing and anecdote style that sails close to the edge.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
How bout redbaiter? He would only last an episode but it would be glorious.
Maybe a segment every monday where d4j just tears the police commissioner a new one. id watch that.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
If the role is to be confined to reading the autocue, then anyone from the list is fine.
But to do interviews requires training, experience and intelligence. It needs a journalist, or someone with significant experience in interviewing.
Otherwise it’s about time journalists started cavorting about as stand up comedians, netball players etc.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
I think Jack Tame would be good. He’s an up-and-comer who has filled in successfully in the past
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I used to think it was supposed to be news and information orientated, and so do TVNZ apparently, still:
Paul Henry, Pippa Wetzell and the Breakfast team bring viewers the day’s big news, interviews, weather and information, along with their unique sense of humour, to start the day.
From the suggestions and comments it seems that the main demand for the Breakfast show is entertainment and controversy despite how they describe it.
Stick to the newspapers and Internet for news and serious comment (Kiwiblog is very slow at that time of day!). I don’t care who acts the clown on TV in the morning.
Interesting to see how TVNZ are manipulating the masses drawing them in to their “selection” process. Just a bit more marketing.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Rex,
Does that mean we can have your vote for Heather DPA as the front with some junior boy to fetch & carry for her and to giggle an the appropriate times?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
How bout redbaiter? He would only last an episode but it would be glorious.
At least NZ would be known for the headline ‘Interviewer spontaneously implodes on New Zealand national TV’ rather than sheep, for about 2 weeks.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
# big bruv (7,068) Says:
October 18th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Bernadine Oliver-Kerby
YES!!!
She could interview the green sheila and compare mo’s.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Holmsey is by far the best, though the old girl is showing her age.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I never watched Breakfast when Henry was host. I suspect I will watch it even less now.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
What about Willie Jackson or JohnTamahere?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Redbaiter would be an interesting option.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Has anybody run the list past Minto, for his approval?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Cut and paste wouldn’t work on live TV, and it would be more than a Whale-sized joining with the enemy’s ranks.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Anybody but Matt McCarten, I don’t have that much time in the mornings.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Stick to the newspapers for serious comment??? Are you mental?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Jack Tane and heather DPA. After all that’s a better match for heather than the old troughing geezer she’s hitched too currently.
Trouble is he wouldn’t be able to get out of bed in time to drive her to the airport to get to Auckland in time for next weeks show. So perhaps not HDOA.
Paul Holmes. Well bugger me, you guys all go on about Anderton but Holmes is in the even more useless toughing category and he will just never shake the hangover at 4 a.m.
Like the Labour Party TVNZ needs a kick in the nuts until they understand what their role in life really is, especially at breakfast time.
Meanwhile the Herald will continue to attack their adversery and competitor for breakfast time news and entertainment and evening time sports.
Currently Herald two: TVNZ nil.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
I must have missed something. There was almost universal rejoicing when Paul Holmes left TVNZ … when did he get rehabilitated and why is anyone even in jest suggesting him for the role?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
That took a while. But – if you agree with what is written or not – where else is there?
Some blogs offer a bit. TV makes an attempt at a bit of serious in-depth coverage in the weekend only. Newspaper commentary and opinion is where most of the detail comes from, and it is often discussed and argued here. The Herald is frequently condemned here but it is also the news source most frequently quoted. Without the Herald and Stuff online content political blogs would be very thin on substance.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Hah! If you people think The Herald is bad, try reading the DomPost once (it’ll only take one time)…
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I think the best man not on the list by about a light year is a guy who I knew as a radio jock in the Wairarapa about 15 years or so ago, I think his name was Henry, Paul or something.
Vote:ps why only kick the Herald in the nuts, all the deadtree consumers are shite.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
What about that guy that used to be on Pulp Sport?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Bugger breakfast.
Stratos runs a decent world news from Al Jazeera. (if you can put up with the anti Israel bias).
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
bhudson asks:
Dunno, is she a “proper” journo? Can she interview? And does she meet my definition of a godd interviewer (borrowed from Lord whatsisname) that the interview ends with at least one fact exposed that the interviewee didn’t want you to know? (i.e. not lightweight puff pieces spruiking someone’s book, or predictable “let’s rehash your press release” questions).
If so, then yes. But no giggling please, from girls or girly men. If they don’t have a role then don’t hire them. The news used to be capable of being read by one person. Did Dougal Stevenson or Marama Martin have such a collosal intelligence they could do the work of two people? Or is it that TV now universally employs halfwits?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Rex,
“Or is it that TV now universally employs halfwits?”
That was a rhetorical question, surely?
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Actually bhudson, it’s one I’d insist on an answer to if I were interviewing the TVNZ CEO or Director of News. Why is it that a job that used to be done quite adequately by one person now needs to be done by two? Two who are on vastly greater sums of money (even allowing for inflation etc) than were the people who did it without autocues and in the days of analogue everything, when things regularly went wrong and they couldn’t do a live cross to the supermarket to watch an “investigative journalist” buy a bottle of water to kill time.
And like any good journo, I’d be asking a question to which I already knew the answer: that long ago, some spurious bullshit “research” told news executives that their news should be delivered by a “family”… reassuring mum and dad the newsreaders, pretty but stupid daughter the weather girl, hunky but stupid son the sports reporter etc.
And while they’ve been altering the formula since (Paul Henry, for instance, was clearly the creepy uncle you hope won’t visit over Christmas because he says inappropriate things to your dinner guests and then giggles helplessly at his own “jokes”) they’re too bereft of creativity to break free of it.
Thankfully, other “research” initiatives have been just as silly, but shorter lived. I remember when a radio boss came back from the US and decided we should all do our air shifts standing up… something about “projection”, as though we were on stage at the RSC and not an inch away from a sensitive microphone. All the consoles were thus lifted up onto some rickety frames and we perched on bar stools till he got some other obsession and we had the techs lower them again.
Now I see the trend has crept into TV, where “mum” or “dad” are often forced to stand in front of a giant screen, with some paper in their hand (presumably their contracts, so they can glance down and be reminded how much they’re being paid to participate in this nonsense). With no reason to be standing there they tend to walk up and down a bit with their hands clutched in front of their groins whilst reading the autocue. Why? No one has a sensible answer, though I’ll bet some expensive research has told them that a desk is seen as a “barrier” between presenter and audience… when all we want is the accurate, unbiased, comprehensible NEWS FGS!!
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
How about Phool? you know, the magpie
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Te Radar, there’s someone with down to earth common sense!
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Alas, Joe Slovo is dead.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Rex,
I don’t think you’ll find anyone here disagreeing with you – from either end of the political spectrum.
In a very real way, those that seek to manager our viewer experience haven’t moved on from Pleasantville. They might have injected some “colur” and got slightly more “edgy” to stir things up a little, but they are no less paternalistic or patronising.
It is self evident that they think we are all stupid lemmings. Just how right they might be is a little worrying
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
It’s called target market, stupid lemmings are what the advertisers are after.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Colin Meads, Sir Peter Leitch, Dame Kiri, Paul Holmes, Jim Bolger, SB Williams, Sam Neill, a picture of Maurice Brownlee/George Nepia …
… some real news/journalism (oops, lets not be silly now) …
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
… Bob Charles … Ed Hillary’s favourite crampon …
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
…crampon…
Something that digs right into the issue at hand. Stickability. Dependability,
thedavincimode – you could be onto something there. And it would be no less articulate! Perfect
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Paul Holmes – Oh the irony… the man famous for the “Cheeky Darky” comments replacing the man who said something no-where near as offensive.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Well if we’re nominating inanimate objects…
I see we’re loaning Phar Lap’s skeleton to the Aussies; they already have his stuffed hide.
I therefore suggest we ask to borrow part of that.
That way we could replace one horse’s ass with another
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Rex, breaky telly is about entertainment with news interspersed by sad sack news readers and advertising.. Its not about in depth research into some issue. That’s not entertainment.
Vote:I personally don’t want to wake up and watch/listen to some boring fart go on about some uninteresting boring subject that hour of the day.
I want entertainment that is fun, light hearted, maybe provokes me in someway to think about some subject that’s not boring and dull etc.
If I want boring I will read that stuff elsewhere.
And that’s the mistake TVNZ has made. They are now going to be boring, which is exactly what the Herald wants so that people go over to the Internet instead. (and don’t forget it will not be long before the Herald on line and others like it will have a seamless pipeline into your morning telly. Superfast Broad band and streaming will allow this to go full steam ahead.
i.e. They will be competing head on for viewers with TVNZ.
The Govt. should hurry up and sell the crap house before it costs us more money than NZ rail.
October 18th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Renee Wright. And I think Tamati should be promoted – I thought he struggled as the Weather boy at first and should go back to What Now, but he’s really grown in the role and the challenge of interviewing guests would probably turn him into the next NZ Paul Holmes.
Vote:October 18th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Paul Holmes is not gay is he? just asking cos there are so many gays.
Vote:Miss out Phomes, the job has to go to a gay person or it would be most unfair. Hello? hello?
Is that you calling Chris? want a job at TVNZ coz your job is fucked. Suck it up, get on the sports reporting, travel
October 18th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Viking2 says:
Plenty of breakfast telly manages to be entertaining and informing without being needlessly controversial and barely sentient. The BBC manage it. ABC2 in Australia manage it. David Frost used to host a show that started 20 years ago that managed to have both without mixing the two.
Vote:October 31st, 2010 at 9:01 pm
I say: Bernadine Oliver Kerby and Greg Boyed on the couch. Jenny May Coffin on the newsdesk!
Vote:I’ve seen Bernie and Greg work together well in real life, can’t see what the harm is in letting them do an almost lifestyle type program.