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The Breakfast Clubs

America’s morning television brightens the day but deadens the soul. Not the case in the U.K., where the shows are so bizarre, they can’t help but delight

By Joel Golby

If there is anything emotionally or spiritually wrong with you at all, may I prescribe four to seven hours of British daytime TV?

Americans, you may be rolling your eyes. The idea of spending even half of that with Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly, Robin Roberts, and George Stephanopoulos presumably seems mind-numbing, if not downright punitive. (Although if you’re a Hoda Kotb fan, time is at a premium; she just announced her departure from Today after a 26-year run.)