9am with David & Kim

Demise

In August 2009, Reyne announced that he will be leaving 9am at the end of the year, after 4 years with the show and Ten. On 7 December 2009 Watkins also confirmed she had also quit the show, with Ten programmer David Mott announcing a brand new concept for the timeslot next year. It is unclear whether Watkins has left the network altogether. The final ever show aired on Friday 11 December 2009 due to a strong competition with Seven's The Morning Show. 9am Summertime concluded on 5 February 2010. The following week after the demise the 9am website was removed.

On 16 January 2010, it was announced The Circle would be the replacement show, which started on 9 February 10 am-12 pm following the new time slot for the Ten Morning News hour 9 am-10 am.

Segments

9am included a mix of lifestyle, cooking and interview segments along with advertorials. The advertorials were for products from home-shopping companies such as Danoz Direct and Global Shop Direct, and were mostly presented by Marianne van Dorslar & Ann-Maree Biggar.

Regular segments and their hosts included:

1. Family Matters: John Irvine
2. Your Garden: David Kirkpatrick
3. Fashion, style, beauty and home: Dhav Naidu
4. Health and Fitness: Christi Malthouse and Craig Harper
5. Entertainment: Benjamin Hart
6. Your Pets: Julie Summerfield
7. Your Health: David Spencer
8. Music: Ian Dickson
9. Cooking: Chef Arianne Spratt
10. Your Place: Ann-Maree Biggar
11. Lifestyle Travel: Shannon Watts

At the start of the program Kim Watkins read the news headlines, and at 10.15 am Ten News presenter Natarsha Belling presents a news update. At the end of each show, Reyne used his trademark sign-off - using a different adjective in place of "nice" as in "Have a nice day" (for example, "Have a colossal day").

Celebrity fill-ins

• Martin Short (Monday 25 May 2009)
• Nia Vardalos (Friday 10 July 2009)
• Frank Woodley (Friday 23 October 2009)

9am Summertime

Over summer Ann-Maree Biggar presented a pre-recorded show of highlights throughout the year.

Although the program was pre-recorded the advertorials shown were live.

Notes

1. This includes 30 "Summertime" episodes which ran from 18 December 2006 to 26 January 2007.

References

References

1. Leo, Jessica, "Couple of morning naturals", ''Herald Sun'', 19 July 2006
2. "Network Ten Media Release: "TEN Announces 9am With David and Kim"".
3. (20 November 2009). "Has Kim lost David AND her show?".
4. (6 December 2009). "Morning TV war set to heat up".
5. http://ten.com.au//media/The_Circle_media_release.pdf{{dead link. (December 2020)