The Big Breakfast to change direction and work towards a lighter style concentrating mainly on entertainment and humour. The first two presenters were Chris Evans (from 1992 to 1994) and Gaby Roslin (1992 to 1996). At its height in 1993, viewing figures reached around two million per edition, and it was the highest rated UK breakfast television programme. Along with Evans and Roslin, Bob Geldof presented a short-lived political interview slot. His wife Paula Yates interviewed people whilst lying on a bed, and the puppet characters Zig and Zag created morning mayhem in the bathroom with Evans in a slot called 'The Crunch'.
The Big Breakfast during most nationally recognised UK school holiday periods, "The Big Breakfast" would run beyond its typical 9am finish to provide continuity into and out of unrelated shows aimed primarily towards children. This would last throughout the morning, usually until around midday. Although typically presented to the viewer as simply a programme on Channel 4, most of "The Bigger Breakfast" is perhaps better classified as an informal style of in-vision continuity. The strand also acted as an umbrella brand for the programming which it linked to, by use of "Big Breakfast" style break-bumpers and Digital On-Screen Graphics. The expanded format always