GMTV of the 1993-2003

Did GMTV provide separate programming opt outs, such as cartoons, for Wales and Northern Ireland, during school holidays?

A few points Easter holidays never used to included Easter Monday In Scotland until 96/97 Thats when the Scottish banks lined up with the English banks. ( Easter Monday is not a Scottish bank holiday) For years I went back to school on Easter Monday after my 2 weeks off. Also there is no Half term in Scotland, but remember there are 32 council who make up the holiday rotas.

It happened in early July for the Summer holidays. I think it happened aswell around October. I think the last time it happened was ni 1997.

Im sure there is another clip floating around for this opt.

Is it not just Scotland that have materially different holidays? Their summer holidays being 2-3 weeks earlier than England's so you'd get CBBC Scotland etc back in the day.

Northern Ireland summer school holidays last 9 weeks.

This page will show you the differences between school holidays in different parts of the UK.
https://www.schoolholidayseurope.eu/school-holidays-2016-uk.html

Completely off topic but do wish what other countries do would be raised more often when stories about our "long" summer holidays come up.

But don't have Spring bank or October half terms, is that right?

I never knew that.

Off topic but quite interesting.

Separately, Easter hols were a mess this year due to how early Easter was and if kids TV was still on mainstream channels, it could have dragged on for 4 weeks.

I know this is highly off topic but schools in Northern Ireland are usually closed for the whole month of July and most of August only students getting GCSE and A Level results would be in schools really in August and new intake days for Secondary Schools. The schools here get a week in October for Half Term coinciding with Halloween and 2 weeks for Christmas and 2 weeks for Easter. They usually get a few days at February usually 2 or 3 days and days for St. Patrick's Day and the 2 May Bank Holidays and some Baker Days for Teacher Training. However if you add the holidays in NI, it adds up with the rest of the UK it's just we have longer summers whereas England have a week off in May and a week off in February etc.

Easter this year was even worse here in NI as St. Patrick's Day went alongside Easter so schools were either off for 2 and a half weeks or were off on St. Patrick's Day then in a few days then off for Easter.

I always found the 'News Hour' titles more interesting. This is all from memory but I recall they kept the same music on that for quite a long time. The title graphics themselves were rather basic, and made quite a big deal about the fact that they had news supplied from Reuters.

Reuters stopped supplying GMTV's News not long after this, I believe within a year.

Yeah, contract went to ITN in 1999. The music lasted a good bit longer, until at least 2004.

It lasted all the way into the first widescreen look:




It was finally replaced in 2005 with a less dramatic but very catchy theme: