Let's face it, Piers IS the show. When discussing the show with work colleagues about items featured, we always refer to it as "Piers Morgan" rather than "Good Morning Britain". Like "did you see that on Piers Morgan this morning". It's exactly why he gets away with murder.
The difference between GMB before Piers and after is that before, all anyone talked about was how poor the ratings were and how it was surely going to get the axe at any moment. Now, after Piers, all anyone talks about is, well, Piers. So the attention has been shifted away from the ratings and the health of the show overall in the media, even if the ratings haven't actually changed that much.
I'm no Morgan fan, but he put that show on the map and saved ITV breakfast from complete oblivion. The real problem is when Piers is off, it simply doesn't work and becomes GMTV 3.0.
Ranvir introduced a story by Richard Gaisford, only it was a females voice, who then signed off as Richard Gaisford at the end of the report...
Just watched it back on ITV Player (from 6.03am if anyone's interested) - sounded very bizarre. Ranvir seemed quite surprised, commenting on 'an interesting voice change for Richard Gaisford there' before linking live to *actual* Richard.
Ranvir introduced a story by Richard Gaisford, only it was a females voice, who then signed off as Richard Gaisford at the end of the report...
A producer’s guide voice?
Does this mean someone else puts the report together and then Richard Gaisford just records a voiceover, replacing the producer's (or not, in this case)?
Twitter probably isn’t the venue to dish out discipline.
But, as I commented several weeks ago, long before the Alastair Stewart “event”, I find it hard to understand why ITV clearly believes in double-standards.
Alastair, whether we believe he should or shouldn’t have, lost his job over his tweeting. And the ITV management went somewhat public over it.
Yet, Piers Morgan can do what he wants. And appears to go unchecked.
Setting aside all sentiment, bias, favouritism or like/dislike for both Alastair and Piers, I just can’t (and never will) fathom the double standards at play.
It’s bizarre. Tantamount to suggesting that Piers calls the shots and is above the law and is allowed to say what he wants.
It’s bizarre.
I've been working on a story I've published this morning which in part relates to this. I hope mods don't mind me posting link.
Does this mean someone else puts the report together and then Richard Gaisford just records a voiceover, replacing the producer's (or not, in this case)?
I imagine it is commonplace for an overnight producer to get a rough package ready for Gaisford to amend and voice, particularly if he’s out doing lives.
Let's face it, Piers IS the show. When discussing the show with work colleagues about items featured, we always refer to it as "Piers Morgan" rather than "Good Morning Britain". Like "did you see that on Piers Morgan this morning". It's exactly why he gets away with murder.
I normally hear it referred to as GMTV by colleagues, which will delight people on here. To be fair it’s understandable as the GMB and GMTV names aren’t a million miles apart.
While I get what some are saying about Morgan, it does show how hollow ITV’s talk about mental health really is. They promote and talk about it responsibly on most of the other ITV daytime shows only for their breakfast show to be led by someone who is a big player in the pile-on culture online and essentially uses the show as his soapbox to attack/bully whoever he pleases. Makes it seem like their concern about mental health only extends to whether it impacts the ratings. And it’s not even as if the ratings are much to write home about with him
My comment was certainly not in defence of Piers, if that’s what you have thought. Just my opinion that ITV prefer a show that is talked about because of Piers rather than a show that is talked about because it’s a flop.
My comment was certainly not in defence of Piers, if that’s what you have thought. Just my opinion that ITV prefer a show that is talked about because of Piers rather than a show that is talked about because it’s a flop.
Don’t worry, it wasn’t taken as a defence of him (nor were any of the other posts). I get where people were coming from, just its a sad state of affairs really.