Timeline of breakfast television in the United Kingdom

This is a timeline of the history of breakfast television in the United Kingdom.

## 1970s

* **1974**
	+ 30 January – BBC2 shows the first early morning Open University programming, airing between 6.40am and 7.30am.
* **1976**
	+ 4 February – Early morning programming from the Open University begins on BBC1, with *Electrons in motion* airing at 7.05am.
* **1977**
	+ 28 March – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television launch a nine-week breakfast television experiment. It is credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of *TV-am* and the BBC's *Breakfast Time*. Both programmes run at the same time, with Tyne Tees, *Good Morning North*, and Yorkshire's *Good Morning Calendar*. Both programmes finish on Friday 27 May.

## 1980s

* **1980**
	+ 24 January – The Independent Broadcasting Authority announces that in the next ITV franchising round it will offer a national licence for breakfast television.
	+ 1 December – BBC Scotland carries out a one-week experiment in breakfast television. It is a simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland's breakfast show *Good Morning Scotland*.
	+ 28 December – The IBA announces the results of the 1980 franchise round, which includes the winner of a national franchise to provide a breakfast television service on ITV. TV-am is awarded the contract to begin transmission in 1983.
* **1981**
	+ March – TV-am purchases a former car showroom in Camden as its headquarters. The building is subsequently renovated to create the Breakfast Television Centre.
* **1982**
	+ 3–9 October – As part of its coverage of the 1982 Commonwealth Games, the BBC broadcasts a two-hour breakfast programme *Breakfast with Brisbane*. The programme includes regular news summaries and is the first time the BBC has broadcast a scheduled news bulletin at breakfast and comes three months ahead of the launch of the BBC's breakfast television programme *Breakfast Time*.
* **1983**
	+ 17 January – At 6.30am, Britain's first-ever breakfast television show, *Breakfast Time*, launches on BBC1.
	+ 1 February – TV-am launches on ITV, with *Daybreak* and *Good Morning Britain*.
	+ 14 February – Following the launch of *Breakfast Time*, the Open University (OU) programmes previously shown on BBC1 on weekday mornings move to BBC2, resulting in the weekday early morning OU transmission on BBC2 being extended from 1 hour 15 minutes to 2 hours 5 minutes. BBC1 continues to broadcast early morning OU transmissions at the weekend until September 1992.
	+ 28 February – TV-am cuts its *Daybreak* programme to thirty minutes, allowing *Good Morning Britain* to begin half an hour earlier. Original *Daybreak* presenters Robert Kee and Angela Rippon are both replaced, with Gavin Scott (weekdays) and Lynda Barry (weekends).
	+ 18 March – Amid falling ratings and mounting pressure from investors, Peter Jay steps aside as TV-am's Chief Executive allowing Jonathan Aitken to take on the role.
	+ 1 April – Roland Rat makes his first appearance on TV-am. Created by David Claridge and launched by TV-am Children's editor Anne Wood to entertain younger viewers during the Easter holidays, Roland is generally regarded as TV-am's saviour, being described as "the only rat to join a sinking ship".
	+ 12 April – Timothy Aitken succeeds his cousin Jonathan as chief executive of TV-am due to the IBA rules regarding MPs operating a television station.
	+ 19 April – Angela Rippon and Anna Ford are dismissed from TV-am.
	+ 29 April – Michael Parkinson is appointed to TV-am's board of directors.
	+ 23 May – TV-am's new look starts. *Daybreak* is axed, with *Good Morning Britain* extending to start at 6:25 am. Commander David Philpott is moved to present the weather at the weekends only, with Wincey Willis becoming the new weekday weather presenter.
* **1984**
	+ Bruce Gyngell is appointed as TV-am's chief executive. To make the company financially viable, he introduced cost-cutting measures which were brought sharply into focus in the Brighton hotel bombing. The night before the terrorist attack, TV-am sent the production team home as it could not afford to pay for hotel rooms and TV-am's response was limited to a caption of reporter John Stapleton reporting over the phone. Trade union agreements at the time meant that technical staff at the local ITV station TVS could not provide cover for another commercial television company, and TV-am's previous conflicts with ITN meant that the latter would not share its footage. The IBA told the company to invest and improve its news coverage, or it would lose its licence.
	+ 13 October – TV-am launches a new Saturday morning children's series called the *Wide Awake Club*. The live programme replaces pre-recorded shows such as *Data Run* and SPLAT.
* **1985**
	+ 18 February – *Breakfast Time* moves to a later slot, now running between 6.50 am and 9.20 am.
	+ TV-am launches *After Nine*. It is only broadcast during term time as children's programmes are shown during the school holidays.
	+ 14 September – TV-am's *Wide Awake Club* is doubled in length, broadcasting for almost two hours from 7.30 am until 9.25 am.
	+ 3 October – Roland Rat, the puppet rodent who saved ailing TV-am transfers to the BBC. With only a week until October half term was due to start, TV-am launches *Wacaday*, a spin-off of the existing and successful Saturday morning programme, *Wide Awake Club*.
* **1986**
	+ 25 July – Selina Scott presents *Breakfast Time* for the final time.
	+ 10 November – *Breakfast Time* is relaunched with a more formal news and current affairs format.
* **1987**
	+ 16 October – Following the Great Storm of 1987, electrical power to TV-am's studios is lost and an emergency programme has to be transmitted from facilities at Thames Television's Euston Road centre using reports from TV-am's own crews and those of ITN, TSW and TVS. The BBC's *Breakfast Time*, which would usually come from Lime Grove, was unable to broadcast as the studios were without power, as was most of BBC Television Centre at Wood Lane. The early part of the programme was broadcast from the continuity suite at TV Centre usually used for Children's BBC presentation as this area had generator support, before a larger studio was able to be brought into use.
	+ 23 November – The TV-am strike begins after members of the technicians' union the ACTT walk out in a dispute over the station's ‘Caring Christmas Campaign’. What is meant to be a 24-hour stoppage continues for several months when staff are locked out by Managing Director Bruce Gyngell. TV-am is unable to broadcast *Good Morning Britain*, replacing it with shows such as *Flipper*, *Batman* and *Happy Days*. By December a skeleton service that sees non-technical staff operating cameras and Gyngell himself directing proceedings, begin to allow *Good Morning Britain* to start broadcasting again. The strikers are eventually sacked and replaced with non union staff. Viewing figures remain high throughout the disruption, which continues well into 1988, although normal programming gradually resumes.
	+ 7 December – TV-am is able to switch from airing 100% pre-recorded material with the introduction of a 30-minute live segment each morning presented by Anne Diamond.
	+ 14 December – TV-am extends its live broadcasting to an hour a day.
	+ 18 December – Frank Bough, who launched breakfast television on 17 January 1983, presents *Breakfast Time* for the final time.
* **1988**
	+ 14 January – Talks between TV-am's management and the ACTT begin aimed at resolving the ongoing strike.
	+ 25–29 January – TV-am airs a week of live broadcasts from Sydney to celebrate Australia's bicentenary, and featuring Anne Diamond and Mike Morris.
	+ 1 February –
		- TV-am celebrates its fifth birthday, with Anne Diamond joined by Richard Keys, Gyles Brandreth, Su Pollard and Jimmy Greaves. It is the first time TV-am has been able to get its daily output down to an hour of pre-recorded material since the beginning of the strike. However, the station continues to air imports of old US shows for several months.[26]
		- The deadline on which the ACTT must accept TV-am's "Ten Point Plan" aimed at resolving the strike. However, the plan is rejected by a ballot and the union refuses to resume negotiations.
	+ 16 February – TV-am Managing Director Bruce Gyngell sacks the station's locked out staff, and calls a meeting of its remaining employees the following morning to announce that the ACTT will never again organise itself at TV-am's studios. His decision fails to resolve the crisis, however, as picketing continues and the quality of its output remains unchanged.
	+ 30 May – TV-am does not go on air, with its airtime instead taken up by coverage of ITV's *Telethon '88*. The ACTT had asked its members to boycott the programme on this date, and fearful of sparking a nationwide dispute, TV-am's acting Managing Director, Adrian Moore, allows ITV to use the early morning airtime.
	+ July – Stephen Barden is appointed TV-am's new Managing Editor. With the station facing criticism from the IBA over the quality of its output, he acts quickly to improve matters. Repeats of imported US programmes finally come to an end, while new programming is launched, and programmes such as *Frost on Sunday* (off-air since the strike began) are restored.
	+ 19 August – Following concerns about the quality of TV-am's programming, an emergency meeting of the IBA considers whether to review the station's franchise in early 1989. However, it is ultimately decided not to proceed with the review since the next franchise round is approaching, and the IBA feels the success of both organisations is mutually exclusive.
	+ 1 November – Having decided to step down from her presenting role on TV-am, Anne Diamond makes her final regular appearance on the station.
* **1989**
	+ 6 February – Launch of the Sky News flagship breakfast programme *Sky News Sunrise*.
	+ 3 April – Channel 4 launches its breakfast television show *The Channel Four Daily*. The programme is based heavily on news and current affairs, with segments focusing on sports, finance, lifestyles, arts and entertainment, and discussion.
	+ April – The *Wide Awake Club* is renamed *WAC '90*. It is broadcast from Granada's studios in Manchester rather than from TV-am's London studios.
	+ 2 October – The BBC relaunches *Breakfast Time* as *Breakfast News*. The new programme adopts a rolling news format and starts 30 minutes earlier, at 6.30 am. Most of the first 30 minutes is devoted to business news.
	+ 22 November – Following the commencement of televised coverage of the House of Commons the previous day, BBC2 launches a breakfast round-up of yesterday's proceedings. This is preceded by the 8am bulletin from *Breakfast News*.[28] Previously, the only BBC2 breakfast output was programmes from the Open University. Open University programmes continue to be shown on BBC2 at breakfast, but in an earlier timeslot.

## 1990s

* **1990**
	+ 17 April – *The Channel Four Daily* is revamped in a bid to attract more viewers. Some of the segments are changed and the programme starts 30 minutes later, at 6.30 am.
	+ July – *Hey, Hey, it's Saturday!* replaces *Wac '90* as TV-am's flagship Saturday morning children's programme.
* **1991**
	+ September – *TV Mayhem* replaces *Hey, Hey, it's Saturday!* as TV-am's Saturday morning children's programme.
	+ 21 September – More than eight years after launching weekday breakfast television service, the BBC launches a five-minute long weekend breakfast news bulletin.
	+ 16 October – The ITV franchise auction results are announced and TV-am loses out because it was outbid by Sunrise Television but as Sky News' breakfast programming also uses that name (and still does to this day), Sky protested, resulting in a change of name to *GMTV*. TV-am immediately axes *TV Mayhem* and replaces it with *Cartoon World*, which as the name suggests, only shows cartoons.
* **1992**
	+ February – TV-am closes its in-house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News.
	+ 25 September – Channel 4 airs the final *Channel Four Daily*. The news based breakfast television show was axed due to poor ratings.
	+ 28 September – *The Channel Four Daily'*s replacement, *The Big Breakfast*, launches. The programme takes a lighter tone and proves to be more popular with viewers.
	+ 31 December – At 9:25 am, TV-am ends its final broadcast after 9 years and 10 months on air.
* **1993**
	+ 1 January – Good Morning Television takes over the breakfast television franchise from TV-am.
	+ 3 January – Debut of *Breakfast with Frost*, a Sunday morning current affairs programme on BBC1 presented by David Frost.
	+ 4 January – The BBC launches *Business Breakfast* as a 60-minute stand-alone programme. It had previously been part of *Breakfast News*. Consequently, the BBC's weekday breakfast programmes start half an hour earlier, at 6 am.
* **1994**
	+ No events.
* **1995**
	+ 9 October – The launch of the BBC Learning Zone sees the end of stand-alone weekday breakfast Open University transmissions on BBC2. From this date, children's programmes are shown on the channel during the peak breakfast period and the strand is called the *Childrens' BBC Breakfast Show*.
* **1996**
	+ 5 February – *Breakfast News Extra* is launched. The 20-minute programme, which airs at the end of the main edition of *Breakfast News*, is presented by Juliet Morris.
* **1997**
	+ 31 March – Channel 5 launches a 90-minute weekday breakfast news programme *5 News Early*. It broadcasts between 6 am until 7.30 am. The rest of the channel's breakfast airtime is given over to children's strand *Milkshake!*.
	+ 29 August – The final edition of *Breakfast News Extra* is broadcast.
* **1998**
	+ 5 October – Sky One begins simulcasting part of Virgin Radio's *The Chris Evans Breakfast Show* after Virgin signed a three-year sponsorship deal with BSkyB. Under the agreement, Evans is not allowed to mention Virgin Radio while the programme is being simulcast with Sky.
* **1999**
	+ 4 January – GMTV2 launches during the breakfast downtime of ITV2.

## 2000s

* **2000**
	+ 1 January – Channel 4 airs *The Biggest Breakfast Ever*, an eight-hour overnight millennium special with Johnny Vaughan and Liza Tarbuck. The channel's New Year's Day schedule also includes a contemporary version of *Cinderella* starring Kathleen Turner.
	+ 15 September – After eleven years on air, the final edition of *Breakfast News* is broadcast on BBC One.
	+ 2 October – The first edition of the BBC's revamped breakfast news programme *BBC Breakfast* is broadcast. The new programme is carried on both BBC One and BBC News 24 – previously News 24 had aired its own breakfast programme *Breakfast 24*.
* **2001**
	+ 29 August – American illusionist David Blaine appears on *GMTV*, where he is interviewed by presenter Eamonn Holmes, but refuses to speak and instead gives Holmes the "evil eye". Holmes has subsequently cited this interview as the most awkward moment of his professional career.
	+ 20 December – A joint venture between BSkyB and Princess Productions is awarded the contract to replace *The Big Breakfast* with a new breakfast programme for Channel 4.
* **2002**
	+ 7 January – Sky News content becomes available on terrestrial television for the first time in a decade when Channel 5 begins simulcasting part of its breakfast news programme *Sunrise*.
	+ 29 March – Channel 4's *The Big Breakfast* ends after ten years on air.
	+ 29 April – The first edition of *RI:SE* is broadcast on Channel 4.
	+ 8 November – Lock Keeper's Cottage, the building in east London used for the *Big Breakfast* house is destroyed by fire.
* **2003**
	+ 19 December – The final edition of *RI:SE* is aired by Channel 4. It is axed because of low ratings. It is not replaced by another breakfast programme. Instead, Channel 4 broadcasts series such as *Friends* and *The Salon* in its early morning slot.
* **2004**
	+ 5 January – Digital channel Toffa launches its daytime breakfast show Toffa:AM, presented by Nick Farley and Ellie Perkins from Maverick Studios in Birmingham. Unlike most other breakfast shows, the programme was pre-recorded and aired for an hour at 9am on weekdays.
* **2005**
	+ 22 February – Eamonn Holmes announces he will step down from his role as a *GMTV* presenter after twelve years.
	+ 27 April – Eamonn Holmes presents his final edition of *GMTV* after twelve years with the broadcaster.
	+ 19 May – Eammon Holmes has signed a deal with Sky News to present their early morning programme *Sky News Sunrise*, it is reported.
	+ 29 May – BBC One airs the final edition of *Breakfast with Frost* after a twelve-year run.
	+ 11 September – BBC One launches *Sunday AM*, a Sunday morning current affairs programme presented by Andrew Marr.
* **2006**
	+ 14 January – Debut of *Morning Glory*, the fourth attempt at breakfast television live programming on Channel 4. It is presented by Dermot O'Leary every weekday morning from 8:30–9am. Due to low ratings, it is not renewed and ends on 28 January.
	+ 21 August – Debut of Channel 4's *Freshly Squeezed*, a music-based breakfast show aired on weekdays, and featuring studio performances, music videos and interviews.
* **2007**
	+ 9 January – Sky News hires *Meridian Tonight* presenter Charlotte Hawkins to co-present *Sunrise* alongside Eamonn Holmes; she makes her debut on 15 January.
	+ 16 April – Manchester local television station Channel M launches a breakfast show called *Channel M Breakfast.*
	+ 23 April – A BBC *Panorama* disclosed that callers to GMTV's phone-in competitions may have been defrauded out of millions of pounds, because the telephone system operator, Opera Interactive Technology, had determined the winners before the phone lines had closed. GMTV responded by suspending the phone-in quizzes, but claimed that "it was confident it had not breached regulators' codes". Opera Interactive also denied any wrongdoing.
	+ 9 September – The BBC One Sunday morning political programme *Sunday AM* is renamed *The Andrew Marr Show* when it returns after its summer break.
* **2008**
	+ No events.
* **2009**
	+ 5 February – To coincide with the 20th anniversary of Sky's launch, at 6am *Sunrise* begins presenting from a new "multi-purpose" area of the Sky News Centre, formally known as the "shoebox".
	+ 15 May – *Channel M Breakfast* is axed as part of severe cutbacks to programming output and staffing levels at the station.
	+ 7 September - *Toffa:AM* is extended to 90 minutes long, whilst retaining the 9am timeslot.
	+ 26 November – ITV takes full ownership of the breakfast TV service GMTV after purchasing Disney's 25% share in the channel.

## 2010s

* **2010**
	+ 4 March – Penny Smith announces she is to leave GMTV after 17 years to pursue other projects.
	+ 19 April – Adrian Chiles quits the BBC to join ITV and GMTV in a new four-year deal.
	+ 21 April – Ben Shephard announces he is to quit GMTV after ten years.
	+ 11 June – GMTV announces plans to rebrand itself in September, dropping the GMTV name after 17 years in a £1.5million overhaul. On the same day presenter Andrew Castle announces his intention to leave the station after 10 years on air.
	+ 20 June – ITV has announced that Christine Bleakley is to join GMTV to reunite with Adrian Chiles after signing a three-year contract with the broadcaster.
	+ 9 July – ITV announces the name of its new breakfast television service that will replace *GMTV*. *Daybreak* will launch in September.
	+ 3 September – GMTV airs its last edition after 17 years on air.
	+ 6 September – New ITV breakfast show *Daybreak* begins with former *The One Show* hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley presenting. The inaugural edition features an interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, while overnight viewing figures published the following day indicate the programme had an audience of over a million.
* **2011**
	+ 17 May – Toffa confirms that Nick Farley and Ellie Perkins are to leave *Toffa:AM* in July after over seven years; ahead of the summer break.
	+ 22 July – Nick Farley and Ellie Perkins present their last *Toffa:AM* before the summer break.
	+ 5 September – *Toffa:AM* returns from its summer break with new presenting duo James Ross and Charlotte Marsh. Toffa begins co-producing the programme along with Maverick Television in terms of creative control. Another big change is the show being extended to two hours, and directly competing in the breakfast timezone, with a new start time of 7am, with the show now airing live.
* **2012**
	+ 10 April – *BBC Breakfast* makes its first broadcast from the BBC's new media complex at Salford Quays in Manchester, having moved there from London.
	+ 12 June – Ranvir Singh and Matt Barbet are announced as the new presenters of the *Daybreak* news hour from 6 to 7 am.
	+ 3 September – ITV's breakfast strand *Daybreak* is relaunched with Aled Jones and Lorraine Kelly as its main presenters. Overnight figures the following day show it was watched by 600,000 viewers, fewer than the one million who tuned in to watch its debut in 2010.
	+ 21 December – Channel 4 airs the final edition of its music-based breakfast programme *Freshly Squeezed*.
* **2013**
	+ 2 September - Toffa:AM receives a new look to coincide with Toffa's new T-hole logo, and also begins being recorded in HD, but wouldn't be shown in HD until September 2014.
* **2014**
	+ 5 January – *Toffa:AM* celebrates its 10th anniversary with an hour-long show of the presenters looking back at their time on the show.
	+ 3 March – Susanna Reid leaves *BBC Breakfast* to become a presenter on ITV's *Daybreak*, which will relaunch later in the year as *Good Morning Britain*. She will be joined by Ben Shephard, Charlotte Hawkins and Sean Fletcher.
	+ 15 March – Presenter Kate Garraway confirms she will be part of the *Good Morning Britain* team when the programme launches later in the year.
	+ 25 April – Aled Jones and Kate Garraway present the final edition of ITV's *Daybreak*. Jones begins presenting a new weekend breakfast show, *Weekend* from the following day.
	+ 28 April – *Good Morning Britain* makes its debut on ITV. The first edition has an average audience of 800,000, just over half of the 1.5 million who tune into *BBC Breakfast*, but an improvement on ratings for *Daybreak*. However, by 30 April audiences have fallen to 600,000, the average *Daybreak* viewership.
	+ 14 July – *BBC Breakfast* confirms that Naga Munchetty will leave BBC World News to join the presenting team full-time to present shows alongside Charlie Stayt from Thursdays to Saturdays. Bill Turnbull and Louise Minchin will continue to present from Mondays to Wednesdays.
* **2015**
	+ 2 September – *BBC Breakfast* presenter Bill Turnbull confirms his intention to leave the programme after fifteen years.
	+ 15 October – ITV confirms that Piers Morgan will join *Good Morning Britain* as a regular member of the presenting team, joining Susanna Reid to present the programme three days a week.
* **2016**
	+ 26 February – Bill Turnbull presents his final *BBC Breakfast* programme after fifteen years as a presenter, as he joins Classic FM. Sports presenter Dan Walker is announced as his replacement.
	+ 25 March – A fire in the post room of ITV's London studios temporarily forces *Good Morning Britain* off the air as people are evacuated from the building and the fire tackled.
	+ 6 April – ITV News presenter Mark Austin makes his presenting debut on Good Morning Britain.
	+ 2 September – Eamonn Holmes announces he is to leave *Sky News Sunrise* after eleven years.
	+ 13 October – Eamonn Holmes presents his last *Sky News Sunrise* after eleven years.
	+ 17 October – Sarah-Jane Mee succeeds Eamonn Holmes as co-presenter of *Sunrise*, and is joined by Jonathan Samuels.
* **2017**
	+ 4 September – On the first show back after the summer, James Ross and Charlotte Marsh announced that they would leave *Toffa:AM* at the end of the year.
	+ 22 December – James Ross and Charlotte Marsh present their final *Toffa:AM* which is also the final one to come from Maverick Studios in Birmingham after almost fourteen years.
* **2018**
	+ 8 January – *Toffa:AM* returns; being the first show to come from Toffa's newly-purpose-built studios in Burton-upon-Trent. The show is also the first to be presented by new duo Chris Joy and Louise Tiltin. It also saw the introduction of new puppet presenter, Kenny the Kangaroo, portrayed by Sidmoth Keenan.
	+ 17 January – Sunrise begins broadcasting from Studio 6 at Sky Studios. The new studio includes a virtual space to allow for segments away from the desk area, along with the weather.
	+ 13 April – *Good Morning Britain* and *Lorraine* are broadcast from The London Studios for the final time, ahead of a move for ITV's daytime programmes to the former BBC Television Centre at White City.
	+ 16 April – *Good Morning Britain* and *Lorraine* are broadcast from Television Centre for the first time.
	+ 16 June – *Toffa:AM* presenter Louise Tiltin is sacked after six months, following a dip in ratings, strong backlash from viewers and critics and a near fallout with co-presenter Chris Joy. It is announced on the same day that the show would rest until September in order to find a replacement.
	+ 2 July – Maddie Burnley is confirmed as Louise Tiltin's replacement as co-presenter of *Toffa:AM*.
	+ 2 September – BBC One's *The Andrew Marr Show* moves to the later timeslot of 10.00am as part of a shake-up of the channel's Sunday morning schedule.
	+ 3 September – *Toffa:AM* returns after a longer than usual summer break with it being the first featuring Maddie Burnley as main presenter alongside Chris Joy. In a few weeks, ratings almost double almost to those of previous years with a more positive reception.
* **2019**
	+ 5 January – On the day *Toffa:AM* celebrates its 15th anniversary, a live two-hour show aired featuring all main presenters together except Tiltin featuring Kenny the Kangaroo taking part in quizzes and games as well as looking back and ahead to the future. An average audience of 1.2 million watched from 7-9pm with a 7% audience share. On the first show back that Monday, the 2004 graphics and theme made a one-off return albeit with the current logo.
	+ 13 October – After more than 30 years on air, the final edition of *Sky News Sunrise* is broadcast. It is replaced the following day with two new shows – *The Early Rundown* and *Sky News @ Breakfast*.
	+ 27 October – In a first, *BBC Breakfast*, *Good Morning Britain* and *Toffa:AM*'s main presenters took part in a special celebrity Halloween edition of *Fort Boyard* which aired on Toffa. It gave the channel a consolidated figure of 4.46 million; Toffa's third-highest ratings ever to date. The episode would be infamous for featuring an unexpected kiss between the character of Blanche and *Toffa:AM* presenter Chris Joy during the Judgement stage.

## 2020s

**2020**

* 6 January – ITV extends its breakfast programming to 10am. The changes see *Good Morning Britain* being extended by 30 minutes, running until 9am, with *Lorraine* on air for a full hour, from 9am until 10am. The change removes the historic 9:25am demarcation between breakfast and daytime programming that had existed since breakfast television launched on ITV in 1983.
	+ *Toffa:AM* returns with a new look to coincide with the channel's Eighties: Advanced revamp along with new titles, graphics and set. The show now adopted an analogue clock on the bottom right of the screen like *Breakfast Time* and *TV-am*. Kenny the Kangaroo is now also puppeteered by Rob Fowler after Sidmoth Keenan left to focus on presenting *Fort Boyard*.
* 18 March – Following the recent Coronavirus outbreak, *Toffa:AM* has announced a temporary format; the show still on the air, but not taking place in the studio or produced in Toffa's headquarters in Burton-upon-Trent. The idea came after presenter Maddie Burnley was put in self-isolation the day earlier where she along with Chris Joy can present the show in the comfort of their home along with guests using technology around them. It was a first for breakfast television to try this out and how successful it becomes depends on whether to use it on other live Toffa programmes which took place from 23 March.
* 27 April – *Toffa:AM* temporarily goes off the air in favour of a shorter spin-off from the show named *Toffa:AM Bitesize*. Joy and Burnley remained on as the presenters, retaining the format adopted from March but is only 15-minutes long; airing from 10:15am, with occasional 30 minute episodes at 10am.
* 6 September – *Toffa:AM* returns after a four-month hiatus.
* 23 September – The weekday editions of *Sky News @ Breakfast* is renamed *Kay Burley*.
* 10 December – *Sky News Breakfast* replaces *Kay Burley* after Burley stepped back from presenting the show for six months, as a result of breaching London's tier 2 coronavirus restrictions.

**2021**

* 3 January – Toffa announces that *Toffa:AM* would not return to its studio as initially planned from Monday 11 January, and instead reuses the temporary format used during March and April.
* 4 January – In a week of pre-recorded clip shows, *Toffa:AM* looks back on its last 17 years, linked by Chris Joy and Maddie Burnley in the show's office as they complete the paperwork leftover from the Christmas period and reminiscing on the history of the show.
* 14 June – *The Great British Breakfast* starts on the newly launched GB News channel.
* 15 September – Louise Minchin co-presents her final edition of *BBC Breakfast*.
* 1 November - *Toffa:AM* returns to being broadcast in the studio for the first time since the end of 2020. It is modified to how it was pre-COVID and also includes a new performance area.
* 20 December – ITV confirms that *Good Morning Britain* will go on hiatus over the Christmas period as a result of rapid increase in cases of COVID-19. A special edition of the programme is planned for Christmas Day, but editions scheduled for 29, 30 and 31 December will not go ahead. *Good Morning Britain* will return on 4 January 2022.
* 24 December - *Toffa:AM* airs its first Christmas special which aired from 9am to 12pm. It is watched by an average overnight audience of 1.8m.

**2022**

* 3 January – GB News launches a new breakfast show, *Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel*.
* 4 January – GB News starts broadcasting an audio simulcast on DAB radio; *Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel* becomes the first television breakfast show also to air on radio in the United Kingdom.
* 8 January – GB News launches *The Stephen and Anne Breakfast*, airing at weekends.
* 4 September – Launch of the politics programme *Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg* on BBC One. Guests on the opening edition include Conservative leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, as well as First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.

**2023**

* 8 May - *Toffa:AM* is announced to remain on air throughout the summer for the first time, in the lead-up to Toffa's 20th anniversary, and will see the show airing from a different British holiday resort each week. The summer run moves to a later time of 9am and extended to three hours, running until midday. The 7-9am slot it vacates will be taken up with highlights from the show's last few years, with a best-of the week show also airing at the weekend.