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I wonder what will be happening to Good Day LA here in the LA area...

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I doubt they'd force the affiliates to remove/reschedule their shows. GDLA (and probably GDNY) are two that would probably do better ratings-wise than a network show. But then again, Steve's going to have retire someday... and that will be a sad day.

On a side note, when browsing the Live Bookmarks I have in Firefox, the first thing I thought when I saw the headline was "Must be Fox, better make snide comment about how they flat-out demolished the best morning show ever. And how dare you even mention the Vicki Lawrence disaster... mentioning the rest is bad enough!

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it'll be funny if the Fox affiliate in Philadelphia pick's it up. Jerrick used to host their local morning show before he moved to national Fox.

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According to TVNewsday, this is NOT a network program. It's only being rolled out on the TV stations owned and operated by FOX. That's 26 markets across the U.S.

http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2006/07/18/daily.7/
(free subscription required)

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"The unnamed show will air from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in most markets, the News Corp.-owned companies said."

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I don't think either one of is right yet - even they don't know. My apologies.

"Fox has great ambitions for the show. "It could be syndication; it could be network," said Fox rep Les Eisner. "It really hasn't been decided yet."

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And from TVweek.com:

"The Fox stations and Twentieth Television announced Tuesday that they will launch a live one-hour show originating at 9 a.m. (ET) weekdays from New York in January on the 25 Fox-owned and -affiliated stations, which reach nearly 44 percent of the TV homes in the country."

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Totally agreed,

The original Breakfast Time on FX was one of the brightest, funniest, and refreshing morning shows, then they completely and utterly destroyed it by making it more "mainstream"

I LOVED that it was quirky, stupid, and had a giant puppet!

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i LOVED Breakfast Time ... it was back when all FX showed were cheesey shows about collectibles and stuff from the one set they had. What other show could ever have pre-GMA, AFHV, or Hollywood Squares' Tom Bergeron, a nasty puppet as a newsreader, the future wife of Regis & Kelly's Gellman, Phil from The Amazing Race, and the woman who now hosts House Hunters on HGTV? LOL

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I assume by CBS This Morning you mean The Early Show?

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Good Day NY and LA will still air from 7-9:00am, followed by the quasi-national nameless show.

By the way, CBS has a national morning show too: the Early Show. There has to be a third place.

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I actually worked on Breakfast Time and many of the other NYC-produced shows at fX. It was my first job in TV, and what a wonderful and wacky experience it was. The studio, aka the "Apartment" was huge...reportedly 6500 square feet, with many different rooms to air segments from, and all functional rooms (kitchen, game room, living room, bathroom, etc.)

Breakfast Time was the craziest show out of there, but boy was it entertaining. I remember one year they were trying to get a permit from NYC to do their own version of a Thanksgiving parade. When that failed, they decided to do parade allright...a parade that spanned the crosswalk across 5th avenue to Madison Square Park.

Speaking of MS Park, one time they had Cyndi Lauper on as a guest, and put her in a bubble and rolled her around the park for fun.

They were also one of the first shows to try and incorporate the internet into their presentation. Unfortunately, just a bit before their time by today's standards.

With Bob the Puppet, the unseen announcer chiming in from the control room, and the road warriors (reporters), it was a lot of fun.

Some other fX names not mentioned so far:

Jeff Probst! He hosted a viewer feedback show called "Back Chat". Of course, we all know him now as the host of Survivor.

Suzanne Whang worked for Candid Camera.

Phil Keohgan (mentioned) had one of the most embarrassing and pre-FCC fine-ing moments in cable history live on the show. He was doing a remote from an aquarium somewhere, and was coming up the ladder out of the pool when his bathing suit pulled down in front to reveal much more of him than most people would have wanted to see. That made the "Christmas Reel" at fX, and was replayed over and over during the holiday party gathering.

Sadly, one road warrior committed suicide some time after his gig on the show - Spencer Garbett.

Fond memories, and I wholeheartedly agree with the comments that Breakfast Time was, by far, the most original and entertaining morning show EVER. Fox commercial's implementation of the show was nothing like the original.

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