No Good Morning Britain due to fire

They probably do, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily something that could be set up in the sort of timescale seen this morning. TV-am would have had a few hours to arrange their alternative and still had access to their building.


GMB had 2 minutes notice for a 90 minute programme, by the time they all got to ITN and set up it might not have been worth it

The fire has made the headlines of ITV News London

Could you upload it?

The tape may be played when there is no intention of getting things back to normal. As said, there's any number of reasons such a tape needs to be played out which is why it's best not to mention it.

Don't ITN keep a locked off camera in the back of the ITV Newsroom, which can be on air in an emergency? They could have gotten a reporter to read the headlines at 7:30 and 8 and then cut to the local bulletins

There's some still photos of the incident here.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2016-03-25/pictures-show-smoke-coming-from-itvs-good-morning-britain-office/

I don't think a fireman's hat really suits Kate Garraway though...

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-03-25/fire-at-itv-forces-good-morning-britain-off-air/

Lucky it didn't happen on Tuesday, especially with the Breaking News from Brussels that day.

I'd like to think nobody was in that room when it was on fire. Imagine the uproar if somebody was screaming for their dear life and all the firemen were getting a photo with Kate Garraway...

Indeed, it was exceptional circumstances today, especially with it being a Bank Holiday so the show was shorter, fewer people were about to sort things out and make decisions and the audience would be lower anyway because people were having lie-ins. So in the end when it was clear they weren't coming back any time soon, they presumably decided it wasn't worth it. Be different if it was a normal day with a full-length show and presumably not a skeleton staff.

As you say, it was different for TVam because they were on air for three and a half hours on a normal weekday and there was a major news story, so they needed to get on air in some form. Plus TVam was a more complicated affair to deal with because it was all self-contained and not part of the ITV network, so if they weren't on air it would have been a blank screen, whereas today ITV continuity were able to take over and show repeats like they would every other time a show goes off air, so it's less important.

They had a presenter ready to go to do the London regional news, who I'm sure could have read national headlines and done a bit of continuity in and out of the standby tape. As could any of the regions if it was difficult to use ITN for contractual regions.

Some very straightforward ways of at least getting a basic news service out.

ITV News London VT.

I wouldn't presume the Fire Brigade to be so stupid.

Yeah, pretty sure they took the photo after the fire was out, lol.