Then on TV3, to help you cope with your morning news nostalgia, they re-run The Dr Oz Show, The Queen Latifah Show and some scintillating infomercials ... fab, yeh?
TV One's Breakfast with hosts Rawdon Christie and Alison Pugh returns on Monday, January 19. Not that it's a major excitement because, let's face it, they're pretty average and self involved ... like dozens of selfie posers, facebookers and twitterers.
They're a bit like the Play School of news programmes, with British Ted and Blonde Ted being jolly and smiling a lot and laughing at their own jokes.
However, if you're the slightest bit excited about the return of Firstline on TV3 ... forget it ... it's a goner; though you probably already know this.
Instead, we will be treated again to another new guise for that chipmunk lookalike Paul Henry. He will be heading the breakfast programme for TV3 ... no start date yet but we're assured it's coming.
With the breakfast news teams going off on their hols, it has been bit like New Zealand was in the 1960s when the country closed over the holiday period. I really thought we were beyond that mentality now.
TV should look at popping apprentice telly wannabes up for a morning news programme, with a sage old newly retired director/ producer/ editor to show the kids the ropes.
Or why not get some of our oldies out of mothballs?
Somehow, New Zealand telly has a thing about young faces on the box, which it thinks is a better look. This is completely unlike some of the crusty old presenters you see on international news channels, who are much revered and respected.
So on Monday morning, the news drought partially ends with Breakfast back on TV On.
