match the new start time of Nine's Sunday program. The program continued to run through to 10:00 am, meaning that the program had a two-and-a-half-hour running time. In 2009, the program's start time was moved even earlier. Originally, rival Nine Network announced that Today on Sunday (now Weekend Today), the replacement of the long-running Sunday, would run from 7:30 am to 9:00 am. But this was changed on 28 January 2009 to 7:00 am to 9:00 am. As result, Seven announced that Weekend Sunrise would also commence at 7:00 am and run to 10:00 am, meaning the program would go for three hours, the same as the weekday version of Sunrise. On 13 February 2010, Seven announced that Weekend Sunrise would extend to Saturdays to compete against Weekend Today. The Saturday edition airs in the same time slot as Weekend Today (7:00 am to 10:00 am). Saturday Disney, which previously occupied the timeslot, aired its last two hours of their program on 7flix (the first hour, from 6:00 am – 7:00 am, preceded Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network). The original Saturday team consisted of Samantha Armytage co-hosting with Larry Emdur with Sarah Cumming, Simon Reeve and James Tobin presenting news, sport and weather respectively. In June 2013, Melissa Doyle announced that she would be leaving Sunrise for a national network role with Samantha Armytage replacing her. Monique Wright therefore initially replaced Armytage on Weekend Sunrise, but it was not until February 2014 that she was made a permanent co-host on the show. In December 2017, Andrew O'Keefe resigned citing a desire to spend more time with his family. In March 2018, it was announced that Basil Zempilas would replace O'Keefe. In September 2019, Basil Zempilas announced his resignation as regular host of Weekend Sunrise, citing a desire to spend more time with his family, but will still appear on the show intermittently as a summer and fill-in presenter whenever required. In October 2019, it was announced that Matt Doran will replace Zempilas on the show from 12 October. , Monique Wright and Matt Doran are the co-hosts, with Sally Bowrey and James Tobin presenting news, sport and weather respectively. Format Like most other breakfast television shows, Sunrise blends a mixture of news every thirty minutes, interviews and light-hearted feature pieces into three hours each morning. Often they will go out and present the show from other locations, such as