I was watching the other day and their top story was that Winny Wotsit had stolen some clothes from a shop. Who gives a ****
? There's a bloody war going on and their top story is about a shop lifting celeb.
GMTV is so desperately poor. I'm at a loss to understand how anyone can bear to watch it.
BBC Breakfast and Sky Sunrise may be a bit boring in the morning but at least they're not so painfully trivial.
I really do think that Channel 4 should put on a serious news programme in the morning, and Sky One could get a kids breakfast show on there instead.
I disagree, GMTV has always had a showbiz / lifestyle slant. The News Hour between 6am & 7am is the best time to catch the news on GMTV, thereafter it becomes a magazine style show. Which in my opinion is no bad thing, what is the point of BBC Breakfast, Sky etc. all doing the same thing. It's all about choice and alternatives and there is an audience for what GMTV puts out.
(Edited by square eyes at 12:08 pm on Dec. 16, 2001)
What, so if it's always had this 'slant' it's ok, is it?
The Newshour is the ONLY time you'll find some sort of news on GMTV that doesn't have this pathetic showbiz slant.
GMTV is not 'hammering' Breakfast, no-where near. Sky and Breakfast combined do get more viewers than GMTV, so there is a bigger audience for serious hard-hitting news than tacky showbiz dross and Elvis competitions.
You're right, there is an audience for the sort of trash GMTV produce. It an audience of stupid idiots who pay more attention to a group of fat slobs losing wait on 'Inchloss Island' than political, social and economic events happening in this and other countries.
Hey, who gives a crap if there's a war going on? I mean, it's only a few thousand people that've died, isn't it?
Is it really any wonder we, like America, are breeding a nation of thickos who care more about showbiz news than events that'll actually have some sort of impact on our lives?
GMTV would've put the Holocaust at the bottom of their agenda.
Interestingly, on GMTV Text (p640-650) for last Tuesday's GMTV Newshour the synopsis says 'Hollywood Gossip'
Surely they dont spout the same 'Our top story is that Winona Ryder has been arrested for shoplifting' crap in the News Hour that they do in GMTV Today?
Has anyone ever watched The Sunday Programme? Is it along similar lines as The Heaven and earth show?
The Sunday Programme isn't that bad, actually, but then again it is produced by a diffferent company.
John Stapleton is very good at interviewing people, but the trouble is that it's on at such a bloody difficult time.
Breakfast with Frost is probably still the best Sunday programme for high profile guests.
Sunday on Sky hasn't had that many good guests over recent months, not entirely sure what's going on there. But nice to see it coming from Brussels today.