The Morning Show: Your views

The show has a magazine format

BBC One has shaken up its daytime schedule with the introduction of a new live programme each morning.

Former Popstars and Pop Idol judge Nicki Chapman and BBC News correspondent Robert Nisbet present The Morning Show, which features topical news, entertainment features and celebrity interviews.

This debate is now closed. Please see below for a selection of your comments.

How depressing. More unimaginative, derivative output from the BBC. Why bother!
Chris, UK

I for one am fed up with the cult of the celebrity, and will find alternative channels.
Tim Reed, UK

I thought this was an encouraging start. It was good to hear well expressed views from members of the public on a serious subject. The presenters were good - cheerful and energetic. Not sure about Adam Faith though. Will improve.
mike cresswell, UK

More unimaginative, tabloid, ITV style programmes that continue to put the viewer off and encourages them to read more !!
Rob Forrest, Preston, UK

This programme is up to BBC 1's usual standard, its the usual diet of mindless puerile nonsense, eg if the show spent more time debating the ethics of human cloning, rather telling us how we can vote or see how the vote is going, it would be all the better.
Geoff Trimm, UK

Another load of celebrity obsessed tripe dressed up in a serious news format. Turn off.
Chris Percy, Hull UK

Whilst I can't comment on the programme in full, it made a pleasant change to switch the TV on during the daytime and not see mindless drivel. That can only be a bonus...
Mark, UK

Just the sort of dross than one has sadly come to expect from BBC1. Leave the celebrity orientated trash to ITV. At least they don¿t spend my license fee on it!
Thomas Jones, Leeds, UK

Good to see topical issues. Shame this programme hasn't replaced Kilroy though! You say you want to get the viewers involved, so why not work with a professional coach like myself to make a direct impact on the audience, whilst personally helping individuals to get 2003 off to a flying start?
Annie Boate, UK

The debate on cloning was ill-informed vox-pop stuff. The debate needed more science, because most people do not understand the issues. This Morning on ITV also ran a debate on cloning this morning, with scientific guests, and I found this more informative.
David Goldsmith, UK

It was not much different to This Morning and I'd rather watch The Wright Stuff on Channel 5, at least that includes some informed opinion from intelligent panellists.
Tom, UK

Nice to see the BBC hitting a new all time low with this trash. It's the biggest load of pants I've seen in a long time. In fact a good reason to turn off the TV and do something far more interesting.
Nick, England

It was truly awful. It's a kind of mish-mash of magazine links and nothing that really means anything to anyone. If people want celebrity there are now dedicated commercial channels on digital carriers who do a far better job. A poor repetition such as this partly in exchange for our licence fee both underestimates the intelligence of the viewer and acts as advertising for better celebrity channels.
John Everitt, UK

For a long while the BBC has remained a refuge for a wide selection of programmes. Now it is full of crass, mind numbing celebrity focussed, garden and DIY improving, "let's see whats happening next door" type rubbish. Coupled to that are the 'whats wrong with society' with its constant re-occuring themes. I give up!
Rob Donaldson, UK

What about a debate on the ethics of charging a ridiculously high licence fee to the nation's viewers and then using it to clone tired and unoriginal daytime magazine show formats?
Richard B, Scotland, UK

Utterly dreadful. Thank goodness for CNN!
Roy G, UK

I watched the show this morning and feel that it has got the same feel of other failing BBC shows, with the format. I feel the show is just a copy of This Morning and will not be watching. I am shocked at the debtate on cloning which was ill-informed - espically from the BBC and the Six 'o' clock news team - who are working on the show. I have to say, i am shocked how bad it was and at the content, and presenting. I for one will not be watching.
John Alan, UK

No - especially as the BBC has taken on an annoying anchor, Nicki Chapman. What makes you think that a Pop Idol judge with about as much personality and allure of a digestive biscuit would appeal to a mass audience? Way to go in winning that ratings war with This Morning...
Roger Austin, UK

Dishwater dull, what a waste of money !
John Stringer, UK

Bring back the test card.
Andrew Bailey, UK

It really is about time the BBC scrapped its licence fee, so at least pathetic drivel like this could be funded by advertisers - not the viewers. We expect better.
Jo, UK

I assume that intelligent TV no longer pays the BBC enough and therefore it must resort to shows such as this.
Jack, UK

Apart from a lunchtime news bulletin - the BBC continues to prove that daytime programmes continue to be trounced (in intelligence and value for money) by the test card.
Glen Dersley, UK

Agree with Tom re C5's The Wright Stuff. This latest offering from BBC1 plummets new depths of shallowness. Axe it now!
pip, UK

Oh dear Beeb, I'm sure you get the message from the other critics on this page. You are a role model to our children - so bring back old-school quality. you don't hear David Attenborough getting this sort of bad press!
Russ, UK

Daytime TV. Why not just put cartoons and films on all day rather than this rubbish. Overpaid, self-centred, showbiz people go to hell!!
Karl Stone, England

The format is old and dry and watching the window cleaner swap jobs for the day wwas nothing short of bland (although this word has been mildly used). Even the presenters seem wooden and Edwina Currie seemed to define overusuage of the cloning issue when she said that everyone is an individual. Not on this show!!!
Suzanne McMillan, UK

Congratulations to the BBC for making yet another programme that encourages the lazy to start work earlier, the unemployed to get jobs, and young people to boycott the TV and read instead. The more dire programmes that are introduced, and repeats that are aired the better I say. Hopefully people will turn off and the BBC will be forced to show something a bit more imaginative, and less ITV style tripe.
Gary Besta, UK

Terrible waste of money. Whatever happened to the independence of the BBC, now it follows suit over other channels in airing daytime drivel.
Colin Jones, UK

I find the show bland. Nicki Chapman is on another planet,she puts on an annoying smile every sixty seconds as if she's a magician's assistant. Replace her and the show might work.
George Knightley, London, England

Yet more endless dribble from the BBC.
John, Netherlands

The set is dark and dull, very uninviting, the presenters make you feel as if you are watching something similar to Blue Peter. Not everyone would agree, but we do need cheerful, easy to watch programmes in a morning, bring back House Call and cheerful Suzy, or even Animal Park or City Hospital-their depressing stories are better than this new show!!!! I had to resort to ITV-at least they are professional and treat us like adults.
Debbie McGhee, Ayrshire, Scotland

Oh dear! The title sequence reminds me of Wonder Woman, the set is so dark you need a lighthouse to lift the gloom and the presenters are talking at Warp 7! Give up the battle with This Morning and invest the money in a new set for Kilroy - otherwise it will soon be appearing on the Antiques Roadshow !
Steve Davis, England

This programme was truly awful. This is the sort of thing Chris Morris was parodying ten years ago - how can anyone be so dumb as to commission this twaddle?
Adam Battle, London UK

It was awful- the presenters wooden- the teacher feature pathetic and the window cleaner was the most normal although he had to be coaxed to say anything. Rosie Millard looked embarrased at her comedown (as she should be) and no its not wonderful that presenters are out in the cold for a few minutes filming. How could you put out something so ghastly? It makes Fern and Phillip look up market!! Appalling
Janet McCarthur, England

Oh dear! Everytime the BBC (or anyone else) tries to make news 'accessible' they end up being patronising and dull. Do news well or not at all.
Alex, UK