RI:SE
Encyclopedia
RI:SE was a breakfast television
show made by Princess Productions
in collaboration with BSkyB
for Channel 4
in the UK
. It was scheduled to replace The Big Breakfast
after declining ratings. It launched on 29 April 2002. The programme was broadcast between 06:55 and 09:00 in the morning - nationally in the UK.
Original presenters included Mark Durden-Smith
, Colin Murray
, Kirsty Gallacher
, Edith Bowman
, Tom Binns
, Chris Rogers, Liz Bonnin
and Henry Bonsu.
Its viewing figures did not meet the initial expectations, and a variety of format changes were made to try to boost ratings. The programme began to model itself after The Big Breakfast, with the presenters sitting as a couple in front of French doors, games, competitions, crew involvement and outside broadcasts with the likes of Mel Giedroyc
and Sue Perkins
drafted in.
The show was relaunched on 20 January 2003 with presenters Iain Lee
and Edith Bowman
. Bowman was later replaced by 2002 Big Brother
winner, Kate Lawler
, with half-hourly news updates provided by Zora Suleman
. Dougie Anderson
also provided reports (often from a record shop near the studio); filled in when another presenter was off; and helped with the daily television review. The programme gave extensive coverage to reality TV programmes such as Big Brother
, Pop Idol
and The Salon
. In the summer of 2003, RI:SE launched a contest in which a member of the public could become the RI:SE reality correspondent. The competition was won by Kitty, who stayed on the show until the final episode.
Big Brother monitor James joined Iain and Kate who would give live updates of what was going on in the house as well as hold live interviews with the latest evictees. One episode featured PJ who joined Iain and Kate after Anouska was the first to be evicted from the Big Brother 4 house. James also accompanied Kitty on the final show.
, but moved above Whiteley's Shopping Centre
in Bayswater
, West London when it was relaunched in January 2003.
and Shaun Dooley
. Its Whiteley's studio is now used to broadcast The Wright Stuff
on Channel 5. The show ended with a giant 'pile on' which had been organised by Iain and Kate during the weeks before the last episode.
Since then, the show's morning slot has been taken up by re-runs of sitcoms such as Friends
, Everybody Loves Raymond
and Just Shoot Me. In January 2006, Channel 4 launched its first new breakfast show since RI:SE, called Morning Glory, which was presented by Dermot O'Leary
. It broadcast between 08:30 and 09:00, Monday to Friday morning for a three-week spell during Channel 4
's 2006 run of Celebrity Big Brother, but was not renewed due to poor viewing figures. In more recent times, Freshly Squeezed, a live music show has been shown between 07:00 and 07:30 in the morning since the end of Big Brother 7 in 2006.
Breakfast television
Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...
show made by Princess Productions
Princess Productions
Princess Productions is a London-based television production company started in September 1996 by Henrietta Conrad and Sebastian Scott which has produced broadcast shows and pilots for all the major British broadcasters across a variety of genres, mainly specialising in entertainment and factual...
in collaboration with BSkyB
British Sky Broadcasting
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc is a satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and the Ireland....
for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. It was scheduled to replace The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...
after declining ratings. It launched on 29 April 2002. The programme was broadcast between 06:55 and 09:00 in the morning - nationally in the UK.
The show
Mark Durden-Smith
Mark Durden-Smith is a British television presenter. He began his presenting career as host of Sky Sports live rugby union coverage, which included weekly English Premiership fixtures, domestic and European cup competitions and Internationals Tests, including the English home Six Nations matches...
, Colin Murray
Colin Murray
Colin Murray is a Northern Irish sports and music radio and television presenter. He is the current host of the BBC Television show Match of the Day 2 on BBC Two, and the BBC Radio 5 Live shows 5 Live Sport and Fighting Talk, as well as a show on BBC Radio Ulster. He has previously hosted regular...
, Kirsty Gallacher
Kirsty Gallacher
Kirsty Jane Gallacher , is a Scottish television presenter.-Biography:The daughter of the former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, Gallacher was born in Edinburgh. When her father got the job of professional at Wentworth Golf Club, they moved south when she was 18 months old...
, Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music...
, Tom Binns
Tom Binns
Tom Binns is a British writer, actor, stand-up comic, television presenter and radio presenter.-Career:Binns was nominated at the Edinburgh Festival for the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2007 - as the hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury....
, Chris Rogers, Liz Bonnin
Liz Bonnin
Liz Bonnin is a French television presenter who has worked on television in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. She currently works for the BBC.-Biography:...
and Henry Bonsu.
Its viewing figures did not meet the initial expectations, and a variety of format changes were made to try to boost ratings. The programme began to model itself after The Big Breakfast, with the presenters sitting as a couple in front of French doors, games, competitions, crew involvement and outside broadcasts with the likes of Mel Giedroyc
Mel Giedroyc
Mel Giedroyc is an English television presenter, actress, and writer.-Mel and Sue:Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Sue Perkins. The two women met whilst students at Cambridge and both were members of the famous Footlights comedy club.As Mel and Sue, the duo were...
and Sue Perkins
Sue Perkins
Sue Perkins is an English comedienne, broadcaster, actress, and writer.-Education:Perkins was educated at Croham Hurst School, an independent school for girls in Croydon in South London, at the same time as the BBC Breakfast News presenter Susanna Reid...
drafted in.
The show was relaunched on 20 January 2003 with presenters Iain Lee
Iain Lee
Iain Lee is a British comedian, and a television and radio presenter. His career began when he performed stand-up comedy gigs across venues in London. He subsequently became co-presenter of the comedy current affairs show The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 and RI:SE...
and Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music...
. Bowman was later replaced by 2002 Big Brother
Big Brother (UK series 3)
Big Brother 3 was the third series of Big Brother UK. The series started on 24 May 2002, ending on 26 July 2002 and the final of this series drew 10.0 million viewers. Votes in the final week totalled 8.6 million...
winner, Kate Lawler
Kate Lawler
Kate Louise Lawler is an English reality TV personality, DJ, and model. She was the first female winner of Big Brother UK, winning the third season of the reality television show. Since leaving Big Brother, she has worked as a television presenter and personality, a model and as a disc jockey...
, with half-hourly news updates provided by Zora Suleman
Zora Suleman
Zora Suleman is a British television and radio news presenter, best known for her work as news presenter on the Channel 4 breakfast show RI:SE in 2003. Suleman became a minor Internet celebrity during her tenure at RI:SE due to her curvaceous figure...
. Dougie Anderson
Dougie Anderson
Dougie Anderson is a Scottish radio and television presenter and voice-over artist.In 2003 Scotland on Sunday ranked him Scotland's 26th "Most Eligible Man".-Radio:...
also provided reports (often from a record shop near the studio); filled in when another presenter was off; and helped with the daily television review. The programme gave extensive coverage to reality TV programmes such as Big Brother
Big Brother (UK)
Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
, Pop Idol
Pop Idol
Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...
and The Salon
The Salon
The Salon was a British reality TV show where various members of the public were invited daily to have treatments in a studio built beauty salon situated in Balham, south-west London, and in the second series, a purpose-built studio inside the Trocadero, Piccadilly Circus.-Overview:Viewers were...
. In the summer of 2003, RI:SE launched a contest in which a member of the public could become the RI:SE reality correspondent. The competition was won by Kitty, who stayed on the show until the final episode.
Big Brother monitor James joined Iain and Kate who would give live updates of what was going on in the house as well as hold live interviews with the latest evictees. One episode featured PJ who joined Iain and Kate after Anouska was the first to be evicted from the Big Brother 4 house. James also accompanied Kitty on the final show.
Production
It originally broadcast from BSkyB's studios in IsleworthIsleworth
Isleworth is a small town of Saxon origin sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in west London, England. It lies immediately east of the town of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary the River Crane. Isleworth's original area of settlement, alongside the Thames, is known as...
, but moved above Whiteley's Shopping Centre
Whiteleys
Whiteleys is a shopping centre in London, England. It was London's first department store, located in the Bayswater area. The store's main entrance was located on Queensway.-History:...
in Bayswater
Bayswater
Bayswater is an area of west London in the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to the west . It is a built-up district located 3 miles west-north-west of Charing Cross, bordering the north of Hyde Park over Kensington Gardens and having a population density of...
, West London when it was relaunched in January 2003.
Cancelled
The last episode was shown on 19 December 2003, and had the most popular guests from the previous months including Jon TickleJon Tickle
Jonathan "Jon" Tickle is a television presenter in the UK, who initially rose to fame as a contestant on the fourth series of the British Big Brother. He appeared before this, however, as a contestant on the gameshow Blockbusters in 1991. He is also a co-presenter on the Sky Digital television...
and Shaun Dooley
Shaun Dooley
Shaun Dooley is a British actor who regularly appears on television and in British Films.-Biography:Shaun Dooley was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. He studied at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester between 1992 and 1995....
. Its Whiteley's studio is now used to broadcast The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....
on Channel 5. The show ended with a giant 'pile on' which had been organised by Iain and Kate during the weeks before the last episode.
Since then, the show's morning slot has been taken up by re-runs of sitcoms such as Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
and Just Shoot Me. In January 2006, Channel 4 launched its first new breakfast show since RI:SE, called Morning Glory, which was presented by Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary is an English television and radio presenter. He established himself as a presenter of Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4 before moving on to The X Factor on ITV. O'Leary has also presented on the BBC and has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2...
. It broadcast between 08:30 and 09:00, Monday to Friday morning for a three-week spell during Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's 2006 run of Celebrity Big Brother, but was not renewed due to poor viewing figures. In more recent times, Freshly Squeezed, a live music show has been shown between 07:00 and 07:30 in the morning since the end of Big Brother 7 in 2006.
External links
- Official web site.
- BBC Online: New breakfast show Rises - coverage of the launch.
- Off the Telly Criticism.