Brian and Brianna's Bright Lunch

**Brian and Brianna's Bright Lunch**  was a children's weekend lunchtime block airing on Comedy Extra from September 2018 to March 2023 from 11:30am to 2:30pm. The block had various segments, games, shows and cartoons hosted by Brian the Bunny Rabbit and Brianna the Bunny Rabbit along with Dusty the Cat, Hugh the Monster, Quackers the Duck (Chef Quackers) Jackie the Lion, Bobby the Zebra and Fluff the Poodle.

The block has won many awards and has proven to be very popular with its audience share, even going as to fundraise for many charities.

## History

Bright Lunch first started broadcasting on Comedy Extra since September 2018, and aired from 12:00pm-2:30pm, airing cartoons mostly sourced from Classic Kids Channel alongside the BVS Entertainment (Disney) catalogue. After this early success, IME Consumer Products signed on as the licensor for the block and brand name.

During the Summer holidays in 2019 for a limited time only, Bright Lunch was also shown on Friday afternoons with more programmes like Combo Niños, Christopher Crocodile and Malibu CA.

In January 2020, Bright Breakfast! debuted on the IME Family Channel and is hosted by a new mascot - Olly the Duck. This block airs shows that Bright Lunch are taking a break from, along with new and exclusive ones. The block later moved to Comedy Extra in January 2021.

At the same time when Bright Breakfast launched, IME Consumer Products released Brian and Brianna's Bright Lunch: The App, and extended the Bright Lunch brand in May 2020 with the launch of a streaming service called Bright Replay!, which not only has your favourite shows, but also exclusive content never-before-seen on Bright Lunch.

From late March till the start of September 2020, the block was only shown for one hour with just three or four programmes and was billed as "Bright Lunch at Home" with just an out-of-vision announcer, because of obvious health and safety issues.

In June 2020, it would be announced that the summer slot on Fridays will be used for airing feature-length movies called Bright Movies. Bright Movies returned in December 2020.

From July 2022, Dusty and Hugh presented Bright Lunch while Brian and Brianna were on holiday, However, Brian and Brianna were still mentioned in the title, Brian and Brianna returned on 2nd September 2022.

In February 2023, the Bright Replay service was renamed as CWP Replay. In Early-March 2023, it was announced that Bright Breakfast! would end its run, and that the slot was taken over by IME Entertainment, and that beginning in April 2023, would be renamed to Action-Comedy Mornings.

In March 2023, Bright Lunch itself quietly ended its run following Mayday51 closing all of his social media accounts and his retirement from the CWP Community, However, Bright Lunch programs continue to air on Comedy Extra without the Bright Lunch branding or any in vision links. After the merger of Comedy Extra with IME Play, the schedule will always memorate what used to broadcast on weekday lunchtimes. Bright Movies will continue to broadcast.

## **Continuity**

The in-vision links that were filmed live on air in-between all the programmes and segments had Brian, Brianna and friends presenting the show in a main yellow stripy set.

Brian and Brianna would end up having funny conversations as well as telling bad puns and having fun in general with guests.

Even Hugh, Dusty and Quackers would sometimes appear in those links with other bizarre capers.

The links were sometimes scripted (if there's been a situation going on with each other or anyone else) and the humor added into them at most times have proven to work for both kids and adults alike.

There were a lot of pre-recorded items (for example: Dusty Meets and Chef Quackers' Recipe of the Week), live phone-in games and competitions featured on the links for viewers to take part in.

## Merchandising and Other Material

IME Consumer Products has licensed the Bright Lunch name for all sorts of products upon their behalf. Products that have been released include DVDs released by CWP Home Entertainment, plush toys of Brian and Brianna the Bunny Rabbit, T-shirts and albums released by CWP Consumer Products.

From Late 2019 until Early 2020, A nationwide-selling stage show produced by Big Achievement Productions and IME Consumer Products called Brian and Brianna's Bright Lunch Live! toured the United Kingdom, which had a plot involving Brian and Brianna going on a treasure hunt and meeting various characters along the way. There will be further plans on other Bright Lunch stage shows for selected theatres and Butlins resorts.

There is also a Bright Lunch magazine, also released by CWP Consumer Products.

## **Final Schedule**

### SATURDAY

* **11:30am** - Pucca: Love Recipe
* **12pm** - The Latest Buzz
* **12:30pm** - My Life as a Teenage Robot
* **1pm** - Hamster and Gretel
* **1:30pm** - Bob the Builder
* **1:40pm** - Bouli
* **1:45pm** - Noddy's Toyland Adventures
* **2pm** - Albie
* **2:15pm** - The Wombles (2 episodes)

### SUNDAY

* **11:30am** - The Magic Key
* **11:45am** - Bouli (2 episodes)
* **12pm** - Pokémon Master Journeys
* **12:30pm** - Airmageddon
* **1pm** - House of Mouse
* **1:30pm** - Fat Dog Mendoza
* **2pm** - The Haunting Hour

The many acquired and original programmes Bright Lunch has aired throughout its run can be viewed by clicking here.

## **Segments**

### The Memory Game/Everyone's A Winner!

Brian and Brianna host a short quiz which gives viewers calling them live on the phone a chance to answer 10 questions correctly and win one of many prizes, depending on the score they have.

### Dusty Meets...

Dusty the Cat meets a Super Star Comedy friend or a celebrity on her laptop and sometimes meets them face to face whenever she's out on the block holding her microphone.

### Snap, Crackle, and Pop!

A revamp of The Big Breakfast fill-in of the same name looking at the latest in pop music and television.

### Hugh's Reviews

Hugh the Monster reviews the latest in video games, films, and TV programmes whether he'd love them or hate them.

### Chef Quackers' Recipe of the Week

Quackers the Duck cooks up something tasty which sometimes causes a bit of barmy kitchen chaos!

### Chef Quackers' Christmas Corner

Quackers the Duck is joined by some children to make fun things and cook up special Christmas recipes that viewers will also enjoy making and this time, Quackers doesn't get into too much trouble than he used to!

### Pancake Challenge!

Brian and Brianna challenge a Super Star Comedy friend, a show character, or a celebrity to flip a pancake as many times as possible in 30 seconds and find out who will get the highest score to be a champion.

### Jackie's 1 Minute Newsflash

Jackie the Lion gives out brief entertainment news with special thanks from the Scratchy Bottom Observer and sometimes gives away news-related puns that are just as bad as Brian's.

### Name That Tune

Based on the game show of the same name. Two contestants are put against each other to test their knowledge of songs with the aid of Dusty the Keyboard Cat playing a selection of them on her piano.

### Brian's Obstacle Course

Brian and Brianna challenge contestants and celebrities to a difficult obstacle course where they have to pick up hidden prizes that can be won by any Bright Lunch viewer watching now.

**NOTE:** This is the only live segment to be filmed outside of the studio at a private garden somewhere at Pinewood Studios where Bright Lunch is filmed.

### Alphabet Soup

Another phone-in game where Brian and Brianna challenge the caller on changing some of the following letters floating on a bowl of soup to make up a different variety of words, just like that of the classic ITV gameshow 'Chain Letters'.

### Guess Who's Hiding Under The Pudding?

A guessing game where the viewers try and guess who is hiding behind a Christmas Pudding.

Was featured in December/Christmas 2018 editions only.

### Party Pieces

Brian and Brianna show off a variety of home videos with various people performing a variety of acts and they also decide which of them is better which also means the viewers will have to cast their votes on each of them.

A bit similar to the same Party Pieces seen on Henry Hound's House Party.

### Bogies!

A one-off revamp of the Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow fill-in with the same name where Brian and Brianna are at a secret location (e.g. Madame Tussaud's, London) and they try their best to shout **BOGIES** as loud as they possibly could at different parts of that location before they would easily get kicked out for eternity.

### Brian and Brianna on the Road!

Brian and Brianna visit places around the United Kingdom and Ireland on their Bunnymobile and discover more about what goes on and sometimes even throw a party with everyone there.

Was seen on Bright Lunch on Friday editions only during the Summer of 2019.

### True or False!

A simple true or false game where they challenge contestants to answer questions (most of them tend to be as silly as anything).

### Monster Whack!

Bright Lunch viewers can play the game by shouting “Whack!” as many times as they can to give the many scary monsters appearing through holes in a disused cemetery a good whacking from a hovering broomstick.

This phone-in game was only played on the Halloween 2020 edition of Bright Lunch.

### You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It

Brian and Brianna ring up 2 random Bright Lunch viewers, and they can guess how many jam donuts (or other varying food) Chef Quackers can eat in thirty seconds.

Whoever is closest wins a Chef Quackers dinner plate with other exclusive Bright Lunch cutlery.

### Tricky Training!

New mascot presenter Bobby the Zebra shows off a magic trick and afterwards, he reveals how the trick is done for eager viewers to try out at home (if they know their skills).

### Samurai Quack

Quackers the Duck narrates the stories of himself as Samurai Quack, a samurai who wields two magic katanas called Kat and Ana, which are capable of cutting through anything, and that he must use to defeat the demon Achoo.

But before Samurai Quack could finish her off, she sends the samurai forward in time to a dystopian future ruled by her.

Armed with only his dressing gown, sandals and katanas, Samurai Quack quests to travel back to his own time and defeat Achoo before she can take over the world.

As Quackers tells the stories, random sound effects are heard whenever things happen.

### Doctor Loo

In this new series of pre-recorded sketches for Sunday lunchtimes - Brian the Bunny Rabbit plays the role of Doctor Loo, and he, with his companion Louise Rolls (played by Brianna the Bunny Rabbit) travel about the universe in their planet hopping toilet, the TURDIS, foiling the plans of the Kelads (spoofs of the Daleks) and the Cidermen (spoofs of the Cybermen, speaking with Westcountry accents).

### Celebrities Play Games!

In this pre-recorded series of this new Saturday item (filmed during lockdown), four celebrities in two teams have been challenged at home by Brian and Brianna to play rounds of selected online games.

### Hugh’s Monster Makes

Pre-recorded series of fun makes from everyday objects; provided by Hugh the Monster (with only his arms seen), no matter how big or small it is.

Filmed in lockdown for Bright Lunch’s younger viewers.

### The Young Buns

A 5-minute family-friendly parody of The Young Ones, but with Brian and friends playing the roles.

### Terraquiz

Brian and Brianna call up two random Bright Lunch viewers, and ask them 10 questions that relate to Terrahawks. Correct answers are worth three points. The third, sixth and ninth questions always involve listening to a snippet of a Kate Kestrel song, then having to guess which episode it came from.

The winning viewer then goes on to play a part of the game called "Stew Dapples' Top 10". In this part, the viewer has thirty seconds to name ten things that are to do with a subject given by Brian the Bunny Rabbit in his best Stew Dapples impression. If the viewer successfully manages this, they win the complete series of Terrahawks on DVD, but if they lose, they instead win a random Terrahawks toy from Bandai.

A consolation prize, consisting of a T-shirt with a picture of Sergeant Major Zero saying "Oh dear, how sad, never mind!", is given to the losing contestant.

### Viewers' E-mails and Pictures

Brian and Brianna show off viewer-sent emails and pictures.

### Competition Time!

Competitions where the viewers can win prizes by answering a simple question or doing something different.

### Almost Legendary Pop Performances/Videos!

New mascot disc jockey Fluff the Poodle introduces a pop group or singer to perform one of their singles at a separate sound stage in Pinewood Studios (next to the Bright Lunch set).

Also shows music videos.