| Genre | Comedy, talk |
|---|---|
| Running time | 210 minutes (6:30-10:00 am) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 1 |
| Hosts | Chris Moyles Scott Mills (cover) Sara Cox (cover) Vernon Kay (cover) Zane Lowe (cover) Devin Griffin (cover) |
| Writers | Chris Moyles David Vitty |
| Producers | Aled Haydn Jones Freya Mehta |
| Exec. producers | Rhys Hughes |
| Recording studio | Studio Y2, Yalding House, London |
| Air dates | since 5 January 2004 |
| Audio format | FM and Digital radio |
| Opening theme | The Cheesy Song – since 1st Jan 2007 |
| Website | http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles |
| Podcast | Best of Chris Moyles Best of Chris Moyles Enhanced |
The Chris Moyles Show is the current BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the United Kingdom, and has been since Chris Moyles became the station's breakfast show presenter on 5 January 2004. From 2004 to 2007, the show was broadcast 6:55–10:00 am each weekday, but since 15 October 2007 it has started from 6:30 am. It is the longest running Radio 1 breakfast show in the station's history. On the 1st of July 2011 it was announced that Moyles had signed a contract to keep him on the show until 2014 making it a decade on the breakfast show.[1]
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The show lasts three and a half hours, with news and sport read half-hourly between 06:30 and 10:00, except at 09:00. The show begins with the "Cheesy Song", an opening song performed like a Broadway musical number. A typical half-hour segment contains fifteen to twenty minutes of chat, discussing the team members' lives, Radio 1's features, music or popular culture. There are regular celebrity guest interviews usually between 08:00 and 09:00, with the occasional live music performance and frequent first exclusive plays of new single releases. At 10:00, when Fearne Cotton takes over (who took over the slot previously occupied by Jo Whiley from 21 September 2009) Chris and the team will typically talk to Fearne for the first few minutes. The show relies on a number of on-air contributions from background staff in a variation of the "zoo" format, with members of the production team, news and sport readers and other studio guests contributing throughout the show.
Numerous other features of past shows include "Celebrity Tarzan", "Celebrity Two Word Tango", "Who Knows Dom?", "One Word Weather with Nelson Mandela", "One Road Travel", "Yesterday's Weather", "Truth or Gunge" and "Birthday Corner".
Other former regular competitions hosted included Viaduct (named by Simon Mayo when asked for a suggestion about what to call the quiz when Moyles stood in on the breakfast show). It was based on a Two Ronnies sketch (in turn based on Mastermind, with a specialist subject of "answering the question before the last").
Of the current team members, Comedy Dave has worked with Chris the longest; even presenting his own show; Chappers and Dave, alongside former Newsbeat host Mark "Chappers" Chapman, intermittently from 2004 to 2009. Aled worked with Chris before the Breakfast Show, joining the afternoon programme in 2002.
Scott Mills covers the show if the whole team are on holiday. If only Chris is away, Vernon Kay or Sara Cox present in his place. If Tina or Dom are absent, then the other fills in for them, doing both the news and sport. From 4–8 April 2011 Olly Murs covered for Comedy Dave as a 'Special Guest Presenter'. Since Moyles began doing the breakfast show Zane Lowe and Devin Griffin have both presented the breakfast slot on occasion, but host using entirely their own format, unlike Mills, Kay and Cox who use some or all of the regular features and jingles.
On 28 February 2011, it was announced that Moyles and Vitty would attempt to beat the record for the longest continuous Radio 1 show in aid of Comic Relief. The previous record of 37 hours was set by Simon Mayo in 1999.[7]
Moyles and Vitty began their record attempt on the morning of 16 March 2011. At the beginning of the show, Moyles announced that they would attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Radio DJ Endurance Marathon (Team)" and attempt to continuously broadcast for 51 hours 30 minutes.[8] At 19:30 on 17 March they were joined by Simon Mayo who held the previous record and also revealed that they had raised £1,009,033. Moyles and Vitty were presented with a cake by Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt.[9][10]
On Friday 18 March 2011 at 08:30 Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave broke the Guinness World Record for the 'Longest Marathon Radio DJ (team)' and by the end of the show (at 10:00), they had hit the 51 and a half hour mark. The duo opted to 'round it off' by going to 10:30 and thus set a new record of 52 hours. In doing, so they raised a final total of £2,406,648 for Comic Relief,[11] which is an average of £46,282 for each hour they were on air. During the attempt the duo were joined by many celebrity guests including The Wanted, Chipmunk, Jimmy Carr, Craig David, Katy Perry and Ricky Gervais.[12] The grand total has since increased to £2,821,831 and with an audience of 2.84 Million, the event was the most popular live BBC Red Button radio feature ever.[13] 3.8 Million people watched on the Radio 1 Website.
There were a number of guests on the show during 2011.[14]
| Guest(s) | Date | Guest(s) | Date |
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| Nathan and Max from The Wanted | 12 Jan | Louie Spence | 13 Jan |
| Paul McKenna | 14 Jan | Paddy McGuinness | 18 Jan |
| Davina McCall | 24 Jan | Stacey Solomon | 26 Jan |
| Justin Lee Collins | 27 Jan | Billie Piper | 1 Feb |
| Nick Frost and Simon Pegg | 8 Feb | Kimberley Walsh | 10 Feb |
| James Corden | 15 Feb | Heston Blumenthal | 16 Feb |
| Katherine Kelly | 8 Mar | Olly Murs | 9 Mar |
| Kevin Bridges | 10 Mar | Simon Mayo | 14 Mar |
| Alan Carr | 23 May | Lord Alan Sugar | 8 Jun |
| Robbie Savage | 15 Jun | Calvin Harris | 16 Jun |
| Cameron Diaz | 17 Jun | Adele | 5 Jul |
| Eddie Izzard | 6 Jul | Olly Murs | 7 Jul |
| Pixie Lott | 11 Jul | John Barrowman | 3 Aug |
| Jonathan Ross | 31 Aug | Keith Lemon | 1 Sep |
| Matt Cardle | 5 Sep | Robbie Savage | 7 Sep |
| Example | 8 Sep | David Guetta | 13 Sep |
| Gary Barlow | 14 Sep | Jon Culshaw | 2 Nov |
| Jason Derulo | 1 Dec | Bradley Cooper | 2 Dec |
| Professor Green | 6 Dec | Jay, Tom and Nathan from The Wanted | 7 Dec |
| Maverick Sabre | 8 Dec | Stacey Solomon | 19 Dec |
| Michael McIntyre | 20 Dec | Peppa Pig | 21 Dec |
There were 72 guests on the show during 2010.[15]
There were 70 guests on the show during 2009.[16]
In the summer of 2004, Moyles interviewed the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair as part of Sport Relief. Among questions posed to the PM was to name his favourite type of cheese, to which Blair replied Cheddar.
Since David Gest did not show up to an interview with the show there has been a policy where if the celebrity who is due to be interviewed is not there on their call time, they will be cancelled. This has happened three times to date. The first was David Gest, who was followed by Katie Price. On 25 February 2008, Adrian Chiles was due to be a guest on the show but was late. However, his interview was then rescheduled rather than cancelled entirely due to the reason of promoting the charity Sport Relief. On 10 October 2008, Kelly Osbourne was meant to be promoting BBC Switch on the show, but was not there for her call at 8 am, and was cancelled. Davina McCall amongst other guests have previously had concerns about being late for the show; it seems that a certain amount of discretion is used depending on how much the show producers and Chris Moyles likes the guest.
Starting on 28 July 2005, as part of a BBC podcasting trial, a weekly podcast entitled the Best of Chris Moyles was released, containing the highlights from the past week of the show. Originally updated every Thursday, and now Friday as from January 2006, the podcast features highlights from the five previous broadcasts. It featured as the most downloaded podcast in the UK iTunes Music Store for much of 2005; however, in December 2005, it was overtaken by the Ricky Gervais Podcast. The podcast is downloaded by over three hundred thousand people worldwide . The podcasts also contain original opening and closing links.
As of July 2011, the podcast is now referred to as a Free Download and this was marked by the team on the 24 June 2011 episode.[17]
There have been a number of complaints about the Chris Moyles Show. These have included complaints of bad language, racism, homophobia, transphobia and sexism. Several of these complaints have been upheld by Ofcom, many more have been dismissed.
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