'Breakfast' mate for Mau

By JULIET ROWAN

Television New Zealand has decided two heads are better than one on its Breakfast programme on TV One.

Radio Pacific host Paul Henry will join Alison Mau to present the daily two-hour current affairs show from the end of next month.

Henry will continue his radio job, but will switch from a morning to an afternoon slot.

Mau has fronted Breakfast by herself since the beginning of the year.

The eight-year-old show was previously hosted by Mike Hosking and Kate Hawkesby.

News and current affairs head Bill Ralston said TVNZ had decided to return to the two-person format to add character, allow repartee and give the presenters the chance to report from outside the studio.

Henry, whose experience includes working as a BBC TV foreign correspondent, said Breakfast needed to be relaxed and conversational but have a current-affairs edge. "At all times it has to be credible."

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