RI:SE

RI:SE
Format	Breakfast television
Starring	Dougie Anderson Tom Binns Liz Bonnin Henry Bonsu Edith Bowman Mark Durden-Smith Kirsty Gallacher Mel Giedroyc James Kitty Kate Lawler Iain Lee Colin Murray Sue Perkins Chris Rogers Zora Suleman
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	2
Production
Producer(s)	BSkyB Princess Productions
Running time	135 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Picture format	16:9 (SDTV)
Original run	29 April 2002 (2002-04-29) – 19 December 2003 (2003-12-19)
Chronology
Preceded by	The Big Breakfast
Followed by	Morning Glory

RI:SE was a breakfast television show made by Princess Productions in collaboration with BSkyB for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. 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. It ended on 19 December 2003.

The show

Zora Suleman presenting the news on RI:SE.

Iain Lee and Kate Lawler in the final seconds of RI:SE.

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 Independent Television Commission condemned the show for an episode aired on December 2002 in which religious satire jokes were made on Jesus Christ.^[1][2]

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 Lee and Kate Lawler 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 Isleworth, but moved to Whiteley's Shopping Centre in Bayswater, West London where 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 Tickle 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 4, 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.

References

External links

• Official web site.
• BBC Online: New breakfast show Rises - coverage of the launch.
• Off the Telly Criticism.