BBC Breakfast viewers were quick to say the same thing just minutes into the Thursday 13 August coverage
During Thursday 13 August coverage, hosts Charlie Stayt and Sarah Campbell, were on hand to deliver the latest news(Image: BBC)
BBC Breakfast viewers pleaded ‘can we move on’ just minutes into Thursday’s coverage.
During Thursday 13 August coverage, hosts Charlie Stayt and Sarah Campbell, were on hand to deliver the latest news and weather updates across the UK and the world, where the majority of coverage featured the solar eclipse.
On Wednesday, astronomy fans across the UK were treated to the best solar eclipse in decades followed by the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
More than 90% of the Sun was obscured by the Moon, the most it has been blocked above UK skies since the total eclipse in 1999.
Crowds of people could be seen at viewing spots in different locations – including the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, Stonehenge in Wiltshire, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, and outside Queen’s University in Belfast. People could be seen with special glasses, and homemade viewers made from cereal boxes and colanders.
Reporting on the solar eclipse on Thursday’s BBC Breakfast, the BBC programme showed pictures and footage from the incredible astronomy event.
Host Sarah said about the coverage: “We’ve been talking about the eclipse this morning and you have been sending in your photographs. Please continue to do so. We love looking at them.”
To which fellow host Charlie added: “Some of them have been very good. Some of them have been pictures of people not being able to see anything, which I quite enjoy too.”
This prompted Sarah to share: “I mean, my daughter watched it. She described it as a bit underwhelming” with Charlie responding: “I think that was a fairly common experience for a lot of people.”
Sarah added: “I think it might have been, especially if you didn’t have the glasses. But do keep the pictures coming in. We do like seeing them of whatever nature you would like.’
However, viewers were quick to complain about the solar eclipse coverage dominating the programme, pleading ‘can we move on’.
Taking to Twitter, now X, one person said: “#bbcbreakfast Eclipse again FFS” to which another account wrote: “Wall to wall coverage yesterday and still on about it today. Can we move on now”
Another show watcher put: “THE ECLIPSE IS OVER!.. IS THE BBC IS HITTING THE WEATHER AGAIN!” to which another viewer wrote about the event: “Just me that was a little underwhelmed. #bbcbreakfast.”
However, not all viewers were annoyed by the coverage as some show watchers were delighted by the incredible footage and photos, with one person writing: “#bbcbreakfast You really can never have enough eclipse photos.”
BBC Breakfast airs at 6am on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.