GMTV of the 1993-2003

Not quite sure what you mean by 'across the floor' Markymark? As you say the studio had a solid floor and so all the cabling for wall boxes/cameras etc were within cable troughs/ducts at roughly waist height. The control room also had a solid floor, so the computer flooring there is only about 4" deep. Tight but enough.

I'd hazard a guess in that since it's only over that part it's to hide a different design of clock that was there - presumably that's part of the pilots they made.

I've been reading Lorraine Kelly's autobiography, which like that of Eamonn Holmes and Fern Britton is very candid about the politics of television and things such as the 1991 franchise round.

She talks about her Sky One show which started at 9:30pm straight after GMTV came off air, and how she'd come off air, change her jacket, walk over to the sofa as the backdrop would unroll, then go on air.

I know it's been discussed on the Forum before but it really is a striking difference considering all they've done is unrolled some blinds and added some cushions.

Well that must have passed me by on the forum! So Lorraine was doing LK Today (or whatever it was called at that point) on the other side of the studio, nipped over to the GMTV Today sofa and presented a SKY ONE show? How did that work logistically? Was it made by GMTV?

I presume it must have been. LivingTV showed a GMTV produced soap review show presented by Richard Arnold at one time too.

I know this was a typo but I'm now imagining GMTV doing an All Day Breakfast and staying on the air for twelve extra hours. That would be something.

We discussed it a while back: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post972744#post-972744

There's a Broadcast article from the time if you're a subscriber. It was indeed produced by GMTV.

In fact it's just recent enough to have its own thread on TV Forum! http://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/lorraine-kellys-new-36136/

Here it is from the horse's mouth:

What's the audio from? Sounds like a statement/press release!

I presume it's from an audiobook reading of her autobiography?

Where did they do the remnants of WOS - Saint & Greavsie and the Results Service? Just a guess but could the 'faux control room' set maybe have been used for the latter for a while?

Correct, it's a clip from a reading of her book (in which she also says Saint & Greavsie occupied Studio 5 before GMTV)

Incidentally I think the set during that period (in the clip above) was the best incarnation. Maybe the sofa could have been bigger.