History
Early episodes
Intended to compete head-to-head with ITV1's This Morning , the show was heavily promoted before its launch. The first show featured Jonathan Ross as its main guest.
Early episodes were designed to emulate the atmosphere of Wogan's BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, like the short lived Wogan's Web in 1998, featuring a butler for Wogan (played by one of the show's producers) serving him alcoholic drinks.
Former Brookside actor Danny McCall presented a section called "Live Loot" from Monday to Thursday, in which he would visit a house somewhere in the UK to convince the homeowner to sell something to him for £100 or less. On the first show he visited future regular Danny Baker. On Friday, the four items collected over the week were given away to viewers.
The show also featured a daily competition called "Kids in Headphones", in which a child of primary school age was shown wearing a pair of headphones, singing along to a tune, which viewers had to identify to win a prize. In later episodes, winners entered a draw to win a television and a selection of DVDs.
Another regular feature involved Johnny Ball taking three questions from viewers at the beginning of each show from Monday to Thursday, which he then went to research, before answering the questions at the end of the show. The third question always involved a long-winded answer explained using props. In the autumn of 2003, Ball was replaced by Danny Baker.
In one episode, Baker placed a piece of soap in a microwave oven, but burnt his hand removing the soap from the microwave after failing to use the oven glove provided, before removing the glass plate from the microwave, which shattered on the floor.
Rating failings
The show's ratings failed to match those of This Morning, despite several adjustments to the format. The show drew criticism for the frequent absence and substitution of the two titular hosts; the show's highest ever ratings came when Wogan was not present, and replaced by Jimmy Tarbuck. When Roslin was unavailable, she was usually replaced by Jenny Powell. Other substitute hosts included Les Dennis, Lionel Blair, Linda Barker, Donny Osmond (on the day of Children in Need), Danny Baker, and Richard Whiteley.
The low ratings led to the show being axed after 200 episodes. The 199th episode featured Anne Robinson as a guest in her first television appearance since an alleged facelift (which Robinson denied), leading to substantial coverage of Robinson's appearance on the show in the following day's newspapers.
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