BBC One's main early morning news programme

Breakfast began in the year 2000 when it replaced BBC Breakfast News. BBC Breakfast News was strictly a news programme, with newsreaders sitting behind desks and reading the news. Breakfast, however, was less of a news programme and more of a magazine format. The presenters sit on a sofa, and often chat and give their own opinions of things. The items covered in Breakfast, are a mix of news and features, such as interviews with celebrity guests. Overall, the style of Breakfast is similar to ITV's GMTV, which started seven years earlier in 1993.

The first presenters of Breakfast were Jeremy Bowen, who was a BBC reporter, and Sophie Raworth, who was one of the newsreaders on BBC Breakfast News at the end of its run. In 2002, both Sophie Raworth and Jeremy Bowen left the programme. They were replaced by Dermot Murnaghan, who had been an ITN newsreader and Natasha Kaplinsky, who had previously worked on London Tonight and Sky News.