GMTV (1993 - 2010)

Either the background should be meaningless, or it should be a nice view. Which are you actually advocating?

If I wake up to a view of London, then I'll assume that I'm either living there, or the programme is about London.

I think studios which use a window as a backdrop make any programme look cheap and lacking in imagination. Choosing a view which so clearly establishes a location, simply alienates viewers who don't identify themselves with that location.

Nobody's mentioned that the current backdrop that GMTV use is of London... no one seems to have a problem with that?

People are not as stupid as many users on here like to think, if I see a London view on television I don't immediately think I have been transported to London or assume that the programme is about London. Most people know that a lot of television programmes are made in London and therefore on one show or another expect to see a London view! And I agree with Whataday, the background already used on GMTV is basically the same as the view from Studio 7, the only difference is, obviously one is real and the other isn't.

Well in that case you should see a doctor.

lol

I absolutely agree.

Exactly - it's a pretty childish attitude to have to say "I don't live in London, I don't want to see a London backdrop". I don't live in a black and yellow maze but I don't get offended by ITV News.

There is nothing in the background view currently on GMTV which identifies it as London. If so, then it's so obscure as to be irrelevant.

As for waking up and seeing London out of my window; of course I would assume I was there! I don't understand why you have difficulty with that concept of reality!

If a national TV programme clearly shows a London skyline, then I will assume that it has some relevance to subject matter.

Do you assume you wake up with Kate Garraway three days a week too then? Come on Stuart - we've seen less idiotic statements from Tumble Tower!

It's not your window though is it? It's GMTV's. I would think I'm in London and saw a view of London out of MY window, but we're going to be seeing it out a window of someone on the TV.



It does have some relavance, they broadcast from London, they are in London, hence why they can have a view of London out the window.

You don't see viewers in Cumbria getting confused because they see a view of Salford out the window on North West Tonight, or people living in Liverpool thinking they're Mancunians because they see Manchester when they watch Granada Reports. Or is that not the same concept?

I'm pretty sure that St. Paul's Cathedral is shown in the current GMTV background, and I would say that is fairly relevant to London.

yeah just checked on youtube - it seems it does.