List of GMTV programmes

The following details are for the programmes that GMTV (Good Morning Television) broadcast on ITV. GMTV was the former breakfast television frachise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting in January 1993 and finished on Friday 3 September 2010, replaced by ITV Breakfast Limited

GMTV

GMTV
Format	Magazine
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	9
Production
Location(s)	The London Studios
Running time	Monday – Thursday: 150 minutes Friday: 235 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	3 January 1993 – 3 September 2010
Chronology
Followed by	Daybreak (since 2010)
External links
Website

1993–2010

GMTV was the original brand for GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme from 6:00 am. It included national and international news stories, regional news, weather, interviews, cookery and health features, human-interest and showbiz stories, and competitions. In spring 1993, shortly after the channel's launch, a separate news-focused programme was introduced between 6:00 am and 7:00 am, which in early 1994 became The Reuters News Hour. The main 6-9 a.m. programme remained named "GMTV" but as part of the show's new look for the millennium, this main programme later became GMTV Today,

GMTV Today underwent a major revamp at the start of January 2009, reverting back to its original title,^[1] and incorporating GMTV Newshour into the show as well. The show returned with a new set and new onscreen graphics. For the first time since the station's launch the logo was changed from the 'sun' logo. Despite the changes, the same theme music and headline beds were still used throughout the programme and nothing altered with the weather until 18 January 2010.^[2] However on 9 March 2009, GMTV introduced new theme music and headline beds to its main programmes, replacing the previous music that had been in use since 2000. On 31 August 2009, GMTV saw the introduction of 3D graphics, graphic animations, through the use of a new system called VizRT, and a voice over announcer to introduce presenters at the top of the hour. These were later slightly revised in October of that year.

The show had previously been criticised for its poor journalistic approach although from 2009 took on a more confident approach, with 7 minute bulletins on the top of the hour, a detailed bulletin at half-past the hour, and the Top Stories at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour. These replaced the hour and half-hour bulletins which featured previously.

Fiona Phillips and Andrea McLean left the show in late 2008.^[3][4] In November 2008 it was announced that Sky News business presenter Emma Crosby would replace Phillips, and the BBC's Kirsty McCabe would replace McLean as weather presenter.^[5] Aside from the new members of the team, previous presenters continued to present in their previous slots and at the top of the hour since August 2009, a voiceover referred to the show as GMTV with ....^[6] This continued until Penny Smith left on 4 June 2010, with the same presenters on air from 06:00–08:35/09:25.

In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company's 25% share^[7]

• The editor of GMTV, Martin Frizell, quit his role, as Disney's share of the company was sold^[8] and was replaced temporarily by Sue Walton.^[9] It was announced on 7 May 2010, that former The One Show editor Ian Rumsey will take on the role as of June 2010, with Paul Connolly as his deputy^[10]

• On 4 March 2010, it was announced that presenter and newsreader Penny Smith was leaving GMTV with presenter John Stapleton being redeployed as special correspondent^[11][12]

• On 19 April 2010, it was announced that The One Show presenter Adrian Chiles was quitting his roles with the corporation, to join ITV on a six year contract^[13]

• On 21 April 2010, it was confirmed that Ben Shephard was quitting GMTV after 10 years, after earlier telling management he would not be renewing his contract. His two year contract ended in April 2010 however he stayed with GMTV until July 2010^[14] He will then focus on a number of new projects with ITV and other channels^[15]

• On 4 June 2010, Penny Smith left GMTV with John Stapleton presenting on location. From 7 June, Andrew Castle, Emma Crosby, Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard presented from 6am-8.30am with Stapleton taking on a new role of special correspondent and provided cover when the male anchors were absent

• On 11 June 2010 It was confirmed that Andrew Castle was quitting GMTV in September after 10 years with the company^[16]

• On 9 July 2010 it was confirmed that the GMTV programme will be axed in favour of Daybreak^[17]

• On 30 July 2010, Ben Shephard left GMTV, and from 2 August, Andrew Castle presented most days alongside Emma or Kate, with special correspondent John Stapleton providing cover

• GMTV came to an end on 3 September 2010, featuring Andrew Castle and Emma Crosby as hosts. Daybreak fills the show's previous slot from 6 September 2010

GMTV with Lorraine

GMTV with Lorraine
Format	Lifestyle
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	18
Production
Location(s)	The London Studios, London, England, UK
Running time	Monday - Thursday 55 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	4 January 1993 – 2 September 2010
Chronology
Preceded by	LK Today
Followed by	Lorraine
External links
Website

The show featured the latest fashion, food and celebrity gossip, hosted by Lorraine Kelly. There was also regular specialist guests, who made regular appearances. Due to Lorraine living in Scotland, Monday and Tuesday episodes were broadcast live, with Wednesday and Thursday's shows pre-recorded and broadcast as live. The show's target audience was women, therefore during events such as Fashion Week, the programme broadcasted live from location with fashion expert Mark Heyes.

History

Lorraine Kelly first began presenting Top of the Morning in January 1993. In March when Fiona Armstrong walked out of the main GMTV show, Lorraine moved to the GMTV slot ^[18] and Fern Britton and Amanda Redington took over hosting Top of the Morning. Top Of The Morning was produced by an independent production company.^[19]

In 1994 it was replaced with the GMTV-produced Quarter To Nine which in turn was replaced by Nine O'Clock Live (from September 1994, although the show had been airing from 09:00, since April 1994), which were both presented by Lorraine Kelly. The show proved so popular that it moved to the earlier 08:35 slot and was re-titled Lorraine Live.

The main guest host for Lorraine Kelly when she was ill or on holiday, was Fiona Phillips, but after the birth of Fiona's children, she shared the job with Andrea McLean. Occasionally when neither where available, guest hosts where drafted in like Dale Winton and Paul O'Grady. After 2008, once both Andrea and Fiona had left, guest hosts were drafted in.

In Autumn 2000, as GMTV rebranded to GMTV Today, Lorraine's show changed its name to LK Today.

As part of the later rebrand that took place in 2009, the show again changed its title to GMTV with Lorraine, to coincide with GMTV Today changing back to GMTV. Lorraine moved for the first time into the main GMTV studio, instead of having her own part of the studio to host from.

In April 2010 to make GMTV's programming more consistent, GMTV with Lorraine began airing all year round, instead of breaking during school holidays, with guest presenters.

In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company's 25% share.^[7]

On 9 July 2010, as well as the announcement that GMTV had been axed to make way for Daybreak, it was also revealed that Lorraine's new programme Lorraine would replace GMTV with Lorraine^[20]

On 15 July 2010, Lorraine presented her last show before leaving, and throughout the Summer holidays Fiona Phillips, Emma Bunton and Kirsty Gallacher each presented her show for two weeks.^[21] Emma Bunton presented the final week of the show.

Toonattik

Main article: Toonattik

Toonatik was the flagship children's strand of GMTV (known as CITV at weekends). It began on 5 February 2005 and was presented by Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson. The strand aired on Saturdays and Sundays from 7.25am until GMTV's closedown at 9.25am. The original slot featured games, competitions and studio guests combined with the American imported cartoons. However on 6 March 2010 it was reported that Toonattik and Action Stations! presenters Jamie and Anna would be made redundant,^[22] as part of ITV plc's buyout of Disney's 25% share in GMTV. So on Sunday 9 May 2010, Jamie and Anna departed and from the following weekend, the slot re-launched with out-of-vision presentation. From that point Toonattik also featured British cartoons.

As of 12 March 2006, GMTV simulcasted Toonattik on the CITV Channel during their allocated broadcast time, allowing younger Sky Digital, Virgin Media and Freeview viewers to access the show through the children's section of the EPG for the first time. Also, for the first time on the EPG it gave details for the programmes broadcast in the Toonattik time slot.

Rise and Shine

Rise and Shine GMTV Very first Saturday morning children’s series starting on 2 January 1993 and was presented by Kate Weston and Paul Zerdin along with Paul’s puppet character Sam. The series was amined more at younger kids and broadcast between 4-8. In 1995 the series was axed.

The Fluffy Club

Main article: The Fluffy Club

The Fluffy Club was GMTV's pre-school programming slot which aired every Monday-Friday on the CITV Channel between 8.40am and 9.25am as part of GMTV2 and every Saturday and Sunday morning from 06.00 to 07.25am on ITV. It was presented by Emma Lee (who replaced original presenter Mandisa Taylor in March 2010) and puppet fluffy duckling 'Tiny Little Fluff' (who is seen in the show's logo). The slot launched in September 2008 replacing Wakey Wakey! and featured a combination of both home-grown and American imported programmes.

Action Stations!

Main article: Toonattik#Action Stations!

Action Stations! was the flagship children's strand of the British breakfast television station, GMTV2 (branded as part of CITV). The slot aired between 06.00am to 08.40am on the CITV Channel.

It began broadcasting on 13 March 2006 and it was simulcasted on both the CITV Channel and ITV2, however it moved to ITV4 on 17 March 2008 meaning that ITV2 could broadcast 24 hours a day. From June 7, 2010, ITV4 ceased simulcasting, meaning that from early June 2010, GMTV2 could only been seen on the CITV Channel, again allowing ITV4 to broadcast 24 hours a day.^[23]

Originally, Action Stations featured the voices of Toonattik presenters Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson in the form of robots with pre-recorded links in between cartoons. Between September 2009 and May 2010, the slot had the presenters provide in-vision presenters presenting links from the Action Station's 'space base'.

Diggit/Diggin' It

Diggit/Diggin' It was one of GMTV's weekend children's programmes, which began in 1998 and replaced Saturday Disney. It also replaced Disney Club on Sunday mornings. It was broadcast on ITV. It aired from 7:10am to 9:25am on Saturdays and 8:00am to 9:25am on Sundays. On Bank Holidays/Summer Holidays it was on shown under the name Diggit Extra.

Initially the show was presented by Paul Ballard (known on screen as Des) and Fearne Cotton. On Des' weekends off, the show was often co-presented by Reggie Yates. In September 1998, they launched a search for a new presenter (similar to the one that discovered Fearne a few years earlier). Viewers had the chance to vote for a winner in December 1998 and the winner was Jack Stratton. Jack co-presented with Des and Fearne on both shows for a time, before becoming a solo presenter of pre-recorded inserts on the Sunday show. He was asked to leave the show due to end of contract, and in 2000 Fearne also left to concentrate on her other CITV series, the reins being handed over to Laura Jaye and Victoria Hickson. Des left the show in 2002 and GMTV relaunched the show as Diggin' It in January 2003, including a giant puppet named "It". Laura and Victoria had also left and were replaced with Liam Dolan (previously a presenter on CBBC) and Abbie Pethullis, with voice-overs from Phil Gallagher.

From 2003 for the first time, Diggin' It were allowed to have its presenters discussing the weekend's line-up on CITV every Friday afternoon. Liam Dolan was seen sending a Happy Birthday message to CITV on 3 January 2003 on behalf on the Diggin'It team. The show was dropped on 30 January 2005 to make way for the merger of Diggin' It and Up on The Roof into Toonattik.

The Disney Club

The Disney Club Started in 3 September 1989 and produced by Scottish Television, and went out on Sundays at 09.25.

Original Presenters 1989 - 1994:

• Andrea Boardman,
• Richard Orford
• Paul Hendy

In early 1993, the series was moved to also broadcast on GMTV and overlapped past 09.25 cut off time, and co-produced by Scottish and GMTV. In 1998 it was no longer a part of GMTV when It was replaced by Diggit The Series finished on 26 April 1998^[24].

Saturday Disney

Saturday Disney was one of GMTV's children's programmes, broadcast from 1993 to 1998 on Saturday mornings. Initially presented by Stuart Miles and Pippa Ford-Jones, with other presenters including Tara Lynne O'Neill, was a mixture of Disney cartoons old and new, celebrity guests, games and features. The set featured a wonky house, an 'outside' area (which was in fact still the studio), a jail cell, and an area known as 'The splatter dome'. The entire set was deliberately cartoon-like in appearance.

After around 5 months into the series, Pippa was suddenly dropped from the show. The reasons surrounding her departure are not clear. At first Stuart told the audience that "Pippa isn't here this week" and introduced Carmen Ejogo as a stand-in. Pippa never returned and was soon removed from the opening title sequence. However, some pre-recorded location items featuring Pippa were shown over the weeks after her departure. Carmen remained as the female presenter on a permanent basis, and after the departure of Stuart, become the sole presenter until the show's later demise.

Disney cartoons were the main staple, of which the show was built around. GMTV came under criticism for extending the shows running time in early 1993. After just 3 months, GMTV replaced Teen Win Lose Or Draw which ran from 8.50 - 9.25am with a newly imported cartoon Darkwing Duck which ran under the Saturday Disney strand. It was said that GMTV were putting ratings and advertising revenues before educational values.

Up on the Roof

Up on the Roof was one of GMTV's children's slots, presented by Jamie Rickers, broadcast from September 2002 to February 2005 on Saturday mornings. It was regularly broadcast on Sundays only from around 8:15 am straight after Diggit/Diggin' It until 9:25 am when GMTV handed over to CITV. The cartoon series that were shown were mainly those that featured action like Spider-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Up on The Roof came to an end on Sunday 30 January 2005 and was replaced by Toonattik from 5 February, broadcast on both Saturdays and Sundays.

Wakey! Wakey!

Wakey! Wakey! was GMTV's pre-school slot which ran every weekend morning on both CITV GMTV and GMTV2 from 06.00 to 07.25am. It was originally presented by Kerry Newell (of Fun Song Factory fame) and was later replaced by former Cbeebies presenter Sue Monroe from 2006. Before Wakey! Wakey!', Toonattik ran the pre-school slot for the first half of 2005 with pre-recorded voice overs with Jamie & Anna taking over from 07.25am. In January 2009, the show was re-launched as The Fluffy Club.

Wake Up in the Wild Room

Wake Up in the Wild Room was one of GMTV's children's programmes, broadcast from 1996 to 1998 on Saturday mornings. Produced in partnership with Disney, it was presented by Dave Benson Phillips. The grand finale at the end of the show had a game where contests had to pick a number from the Big House (e.g. number 5 was a window, number 9 was a roof) but would have to watch out for traps which could result with a pie being thrown in their face by resident pie thrower Gary The Ghost, who wore white ghost make up and a milkman's uniform. Gary also pied various celebrity interview guests, most notably Donna Air, who had uttered a word which had been deemed taboo for that episode's duration.

The Sunday Programme

The Sunday Programme was GMTV's political programme. Together with The Sunday Review (a 60-minute signed review of the week's news), it was launched in 1994 as a replacement for Sunday Best, which was GMTV's original Sunday morning magazine. The programme was on for one hour, including news updates. It aired at various times on GMTV and GMTV2 during its run, but was usually broadcast at either 6:00am or 7:00am on Sundays. Originally presented by Alastair Stewart, in 2001, when he left Steve Richards took over. From 1995–2001, the programme was called Alastair Stewart's Sunday Programme, however this was changed when Alastair left in 2001. In 2008, the programme was quietly axed and replaced with children's programming.

Entertainment Today

Entertainment Today was GMTV's entertainment round-up show on Fridays, designed to replace LK Today at the end of the week. It aired at 8:40 am. The programme was broadcast for 45 minutes, and included interviews with actors/actresses from upcoming movies and music performances. Presented by Ben Shephard and Jenni Falconer originally, as Ben started to present more during the week for GMTV, Michael Underwood was also introduced as a presenter. In 2008 the show was replaced by The Richard Arnold Show in July, which aired for six weeks. After the show's run, Entertainment Today didn't return, and instead the main GMTV Today show was extended to 9:25 am every Friday.

The Richard Arnold Show

The Richard Arnold Show first aired in the summer of 2007, as a replacement for Entertainment Today whilst it took a six-week break. It aired in the same slot as 'Entertainment Today'; Fridays at 8:40 am. The programme was broadcast for 45 minutes, and included TV related guests and entertainment features. The show returned again in the summer of 2008, due to the popularity, for another six-week series. GMTV's TV Critic Richard Arnold was at the helm. The following week, GMTV Today extended its on-air time to 9:25 am, as it was decided Entertainment Today would not return.

Newshour

Newshour was GMTV's weekday news-oriented breakfast programme, broadcasting for an hour from the start of GMTV's weekday broadcast at 6:00 am. It was launched shortly after the channel went on air in 1993 and, as a joint-partnership between GMTV and Reuters, it was originally called The Reuters News Hour. The programme included national and international news stories, regional news, weather and newspaper reviews, plus various guests, designed to be more serious than the lighter and more tabloid GMTV Today programme which followed it. From January 2009, this programme title was scrapped, and merged with GMTV Today to create one GMTV name again. The same presenters from Newshour continued to present the 6:00 am to 7:00 am slot until June 2010.

GMTV Today

GMTV Today was GMTV's flagship weekday breakfast programme, comprising national and international news stories, regional news, weather, human-interest features and competitions. It was also designed to be more lighter and friendly than Newshour which preceded it. From January 2009, this programme title was scrapped, and merged with Newshour to create one GMTV name again. The same presenters from Today continued to present the 7:00 am to 8:30/9:25 am slot until June 2010.

Sunday Best

Sunday Best was GMTV's original Sunday magazine programme at launch in 1993. It was originally intended to be a Sunday edition of the regular weekday programme, featuring the regular lifestyle and human interest stories, interviews, and news bulletins, and was hosted by Eamonn Holmes and Anne Davies. However, as part of the station's relaunch in April 1993, Eamonn Holmes moved to become the main anchor of the weekday GMTV programme and Anne Davies became a newsreader on that programme. Sunday Best then moved from being a general magazine programme to become a weekly political programme, and was hosted by former TV-am presenter Mike Morris. It was replaced in 1994 by The Sunday Review (a 60-minute signed review of the week's news), and The Sunday Programme.

References

1. ^ New look GMTV GMTV, 12 June 2009
2. ^ GMTV Idents TV Newsroom
3. ^ Fiona Phillips quits GMTV The Guardian, 29 August 2008
4. ^ Weather presenter McLean quits GMTV Digital Spy, 31 December 2008
5. ^ Spratt, Charlotte (20 November 2008). "Emma is new girl on sofa at GMTV". London: The Sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1951363.ece. Retrieved 20 November 2008. 
6. ^ Blog TV Newsroom
7. ^ ^{a b} ITV takes full control of breakfast TV broadcaster GMTV The Guardian, 26 November 2009
8. ^ GMTV editor Martin Frizell to leave breakfast TV broadcaster Daily Record, 11 December 2009
9. ^ Editor Martin Frizell leaving GMTV The Guardian, 11 December 2009
10. ^ Ian Rumsey made GMTV editor The Guardian, 7 May 2010
11. ^ GMTV stars Penny Smith and John Stapleton leave the sofa in cut backs Daily Mirror, 4 March 2010
12. ^ Old pro Penny Smith keeps mum on the GMTV sofa after being axed... but tweets: 'Let the partying commence' Mail Online, 4 March 2010
13. ^ Adrian Chiles joins GMTV GMTV, 19 April 2010
14. ^ "Ben Shephard to leave GMTV sofa". BBC News. 21 April 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8635516.stm. Retrieved 3 May 2010. 
15. ^ Ben Shephard to leave GMTV GMTV, 22 April 2010
16. ^ After a decade on the sofa, Andrew Castle bows out of GMTV ITV Press Centre, 10 June 2010
17. ^ Farewell to GMTV as ITV announces new breakfast show Daybreak Mail Online, 9 July 2010
18. ^ GMTV with Lorraine TV.com
19. ^ GMTV Licence Variarion Ofcom, 28 April 1994
20. ^ A new dawn for GMTV GMTV, 12 July 2010
21. ^ Fiona Phillips will return to GMTV sofa GMTV, 16 July 2010
22. ^ Children's TV presenters lose their jobs as GMTV bosses continue to wield the axe Mirror, 6 March 2010
23. ^ GMTV2 moves to CITV Digital Spy, 12 July 2010
24. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/591045

External links

• GMTV
• itv.com