Good Morning Britain in 2020

Ah yes, let us not forget the many GMTV replacements that there have been other that Daybreak or GMB...

Kate was the only main GMTV presenter ITV chose to retain for Daybreak (Not counting Dan Lobb and Kirsty McCabe who weren’t main GMTV presenters).

Everyone else was given their marching orders.

I think ITV do respect Kate, especially when she’s been presenter of one of their main shows for nearly 20 years consecutively.

Kate is the one presenter who ITV kept on throughout the change to Daybreak and the launch of GMB. On both shows her role increased after the launch and she is, again, a main presenter, and one of ITV Daytime’s best known faces.

Don’t forget she also presents her daily radio show, and is a mum... I’d guess she’s perfectly happy with her lot.

And if you want more evidence of how much ITV rate her, they put her in I’m a Celeb!

Lol

Piers is on holiday during the Olympics where trans issues may well be a very big deal and be a relevant talking point.

This is utterly pathetic. This went on for several minutes and they didn’t even look at each other once! As one of you already mentioned above, who wants to wake-up to this racket every morning......bah

And the fact that we (here at TVF) have spent the last 20 pages talking about him does prove that he does manage to get people talking! My whole gripe is that it’s supposed to be a newscast of sorts......

We’re off to a fiery start this morning…@piersmorgan and @susannareid100 discuss Prince Harry’s public comments about stepping back from Royal duties. pic.twitter.com/52ojV3346A

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 20, 2020

Piers Morgan has a go at Harry and Meghan all the time because it was Harry who warned Meghan off from being friends with Piers. Remember, Meghan friended Piers on Twitter and for a while became good pals with him, until she sat down with Harry and mentioned Piers, and Piers thinks Harry told her never again to have anything to do with Piers Morgan - hence the backlash from Piers, and the never ending nonsense drivel he continues to spew about them.

Once again, as his arch enemy Ian Hislop said, Piers Morgan has a very thin skin (the only thing that is actually thin on Piers Morgan) and he becomes a spoilt 5 year old child when you do not ass kiss him.

... and Morgan is mentioned in several of the legal cases that Harry is bringing

The story Ian Hislop tells is both fascinating and disturbing. He says while at The Mirror Piers basically had him stalked by photographers and reporters. Even his vicar received phone calls asking if "he'd said anything juicy in confession". The genesis of Piers' obsession with Ian was the disastrous appearance on HIGNFY (but also the various stories about 'Piers Moron' in Private Eye).

Also, the early morning rants aren't new. They were a part of his routine at The Mirror for years.

(I hope i'm not going slightly off-topic.)

My feeling on this point is, I totally get that transgenderness can be a topic which can be difficult to understand on some aspects (heck, even I struggle to understand my transidentity, so…). And the topic of non-binary gender identity, as it is literally placed beyond the common man/woman dichotomy, can be even tougher to apprehend for some, and I hear that.

I feel that the role of any news department, whether on this topic or on any other topic, should ideally do so with the intent of providing a better comprehension to the viewer (whatever the viewer's feeling or opinion about this afterwards). And, as a morning news show with hundreds of thousands of viewers across the UK every day, one could expect GMB to adhere to that*. But sadly, this is doesn't seem to the case with Mr Morgan.

I can only hope that his interventions in GMB don't fuel some kind of prejudice (for lack of a better word; call it how you want) against transgender and non-binary people; but alas, and correct me if I'm wrong (because I'm only getting indirect echoes from the UK through acquaintances and social media, including this forum; I live on the other side of the Channel, after all), I get the feeling that some parts of the British paper press jumped in the same wagon.

* Side note: I am not assuming here that GMB is entirely made of trash.

It’s worth remembering Morgan comes from
a tabloid news background. He literally works to do the opposite of what you have, rightly, suggested. TV operations - particularly those with a journalistic focus - have a moral responsibility AND a legal one to uphold a clear, unbiased approach to issue led stories. As Prince Harry has made clear, the media in our country has a lot to answer for. It’s frankly quite depressing. I’m not a royalist or, to use the latest buzz word, a ‘snowflake’. I am a decent human being and hate to see organisations that are legally licensed to inform, using their power to influence public opinion and create a Roman style mob rule attitude. The solution is easy. Focus news on news. Don’t be driven by the agenda of newspapers, especially given that they themselves are dying. Reassure where necessary, raise issues only where they exist, don’t stand at the side of public debates goading and inciting. One positive to leave my rant on. Like Twitter and Facebook, this current awful approach to television will soon die. Mr Morgan will merely be a feature on Channel 4’s ‘It was alright in the 20s’ in a decade or two!

They just mentioned about people saying Piers and Susanna never look at each other when they are arguing and people have suggested its because its scripted so they showed the Autocue showing the only thing on it is to throw to the break

Finding it quite fun to watch so far today. piers messed up reading the autocue twice and he referred to Charlotte as a professional autocutie which she took fake offence to before immediately messing up the first sentence in the news roundup.