Wilfred Frost and Sophy Ridge Courtesy of Sky News Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Sky News' new breakfast show, hosted by Sophy Ridge and Wilfred Frost, debuts on Monday. Mornings With Ridge and Frost will air Monday-Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. London time. Plus, the pair will launch Cheat Sheet With Ridge and Frost, a 10-minute podcast providing a news rundown of the day's big headlines and stories, which will drop at 6 a.m. London time on all podcast platforms.
Ridge previously hosted the primetime show Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge for Sky News and, before that, presented the Sunday morning political show Sophy Ridge on Sunday from 2017 to 2023. Frost is known for hosting Sky News Breakfast and Sky News Today. The son of legendary broadcaster David Frost is also a contributor for NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC. Related Stories Movies "The James Dean of the Baltics" Juozas Budraitis to Receive Tallinn Film Festival Lifetime Award TV TIFFCOM: Historical Epics and Urban Romance Dramas Dominate Chinese TV Slate Sky News, for which former CBS News president David Rhodes serves as executive chairman, is a division of Comcast-owned European media and technology giant Sky. In an interview, Ridge and Frost told THR what to expect from Mornings With Ridge and Frost, which will serve up news, discussion, and interviews. Unscripted exchange and authenticity will be key ingredients, the hosts shared. "Authenticity is about communicating with the audience in a much more direct way," Ridge explained. "The unscripted stuff is what I think both of us are probably most excited about and what's worked really well in rehearsals. Both of us can bring our own experience and knowledge to those conversations and give that bit of analysis that you wouldn't necessarily get on a traditional TV broadcast." Frost echoed that, saying with a laugh: "I think Sophy's okay with me saying this. We're both massive geeks, but also can have some fun and want to communicate with each other and with a wider audience. In rehearsals, it's been really fun trying to get to a couple of bullet points or crucial facts in the teleprompter, to make sure we don't miss that, but then chat with each other since we are both across the stories. And in just chatting with each other, we can say: 'Look, these are the other two points that really stand out for me on this story that I think people should know.' It's about sharing our take and having that authenticity." Spending time together in preparing for the show has allowed the duo to find their rhythm. "Being a presenter for Sky News is often a bit like ships in the night because you're presenting different programs," shared Ridge. "So, you don't really end up hanging out that much with other presenters who have different schedules. But we both have this clear idea of what we want the program to be." Quipped Frost: "It was impossible for us to even have a drink in the last year, because Sophy would want to go at 8 p.m., and I'd be fast asleep by then." He added: "As Sophy said, we didn't know each other particularly well until July, August. Therefore, there was a bit of risk. But honestly, the last three months of rehearsals, getting to know each other, have been an absolute joy for everyone involved. And I think we really, really click." So will Mornings With Ridge and Frost be a more traditional TV show or closer to social media feeds that younger audiences may be more attuned to? "You want to do both of those in one show," offered Ridge. "So, you have the serious news, the reason that people turn on Sky News, which is to learn about issues, but done in a more informal way" that Instagram, TikTok and Co. have a reputation for. So, is the idea to replicate the British pub experience of people discussing hot topics informally? "The pub is very central to our thinking," Frost said with a smile. "Yeah, it's like the two of us are at a bar, and then the viewer just pulled up the bar stool on the other side," echoed Ridge. "What we can learn from new media is that people really do love authentic, unscripted conversation, and that we should lean into that, as opposed to scripted news bulletins with one person on there," highlighted Frost. "They like authentic conversation that is not scripted. So we'll definitely lean into that. But I also think that television can do one thing better than any other media across the media landscape, and that is live." That includes a sense of risk. "There's a jeopardy of a live broadcast that the viewer is aware of as well," emphasized Frost. "We and they don't quite know what's going to happen next, whether it's an interview, whether it's that I potentially screw up, or anything like that. Something could go wrong, and we will have that advantage over the new media landscape." With all that set, youn