Olympic Breakfast: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

BBC Olympic Breakfast starts on Saturday 6th August at 6am, and will be waking up Britain with all the overnight action from Rio 2016.

Based in a special studio within the home of BBC Sport for the duration of the Games, BBC Olympic Breakfast will be bringing audiences the overnight highlights and thrills of the world's greatest sporting spectacle.

The regular team on the sofa will link up with Dan Walker, Ore Oduba and Kat Downes in Rio. It will be the first chance to catch up on all the medal moments, the latest news and the key interviews from the Games and of course to follow all the action from Team GB.

In addition to the excitement of the Olympics, Breakfast will continue to feature the usual news, weather and regional bulletins.

Series details

• Title: Olympic Breakfast
• Format: Variety
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2008-08-09
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 188 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19566

Cast and credited roles

• Sam Quek — Presenter
• Dan Walker — Presenter
• Adrian Chiles — Presenter
• Hazel Irvine — Presenter
• Bill Turnbull — Presenter
• Sian Williams — Presenter
• Rishi Persad — Presenter
• Gabby Logan — Presenter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 2008: premiered 2008-08-09; final listed air date 2008-08-09.
• Season 2016: premiered 2016-08-06; final listed air date 2016-08-21; episode order: 16.
• Season 2021: premiered 2021-07-24; final listed air date 2021-08-08; episode order: 16.

Source and licence

Adapted from Olympic Breakfast on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.