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AN
Andrew Founding member
I think the 9am summary was discontinued years ago.

Its not 1995, we don't need regular updates though the day like in those days. Its debatable if the regional news is 'updates' anyway. If they did a bulletin mid morning it'd be the same content as the ones either side, and that goes for the BBC as well.
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TVDP
I think the 9am summary made it's final apparence back in 2014.
SW
Steve Williams
You'll have noticed that the person being interviewed this morning about taking part in the vaccine trial was none other than former CBBC presenter Simeon Courtie.

Courtie is quite an interesting character, he has quite a few strings to his bow - if you follow him on Twitter you'll see he does TED Talks and the like, and he also regularly writes for Have I Got News For You, he was credited for additional material on the Stephen Mangan episode the other week.

You never got that with Michael Underwood!
JE
Jez Founding member
Brekkie posted:
GMB had four as well when they first started leading into the half hour and hour opposite the regional bulletins on Breakfast before putting them back to where GMTV had them in the first ten minutes of the hour.


Although since they extended the show it makes sense to have a bulletin within that half hour of news at the beginning (and take it out of the first half hour with Piers at 6.30) I am surprised they didn't push them later as surely across the newsrooms having staff come in half an hour later across all regions would actually add up over the year.


As for the gap between bulletins that's an ITV issue rather than a GMB issue but it is a shame that ITV didn't use the extension of This Morning as an opportunity to at least restore the national summary. I assume the 9am national summary in Lorraine was discontinued when the schedules changed.


Your right It is an ITV issue rather than GMB. I guess I always see regional news as regional news rather than the GMB bulletins technically being a separate franchise and not counted towards the regional news quota. So really there are 3 regional bulletins a day and 1 on weekends.

In TV:AM days when there was no regional news during breakfast tv they used to have a bulletin at 9.25am before school programmes started at 9.30 and of course nothing else until lunchtime. This was later moved to 9.55am when ITV schools moved to channel 4. And then later on it was about 10.55am but we had the GMTV bulletins in place by then. The same newsreader tends to do the lunchtime news in Wales as the GMB bulletins so there are staff there anyway during the morning so I don't see the harm in a short bulletin at around 11am during This Morning.

Worth noting on Sundays as well ITV Wales sometimes do a quick lunchtime news summary when Newsweek Wales is on, Newsweek I believe is recorded on the Friday but they go live to the weekend presenter for a quick summary of the days news which works well I think.
NG
noggin Founding member
Steve Williams posted:

You never got that with Michael Underwood!


Though Michael Underwood is now a teacher (as I think he may have been, or planning to be, before he got into TV?). He's a Form Teacher and Drama Teacher at an Indepdent school and has been for a while now I think.
SW
Steve Williams
noggin posted:
Though Michael Underwood is now a teacher (as I think he may have been, or planning to be, before he got into TV?). He's a Form Teacher and Drama Teacher at an Indepdent school and has been for a while now I think.


Gaah, I spent ages trying to think of a suitable CBBC presenter to work in that gag. Hope he wasn't reading that.

If you want, please replace "Michael Underwood" with "Toby Anstis".
JA
jacob_27
Now that Trump's blocked Piers on Twitter, don't think we'll be getting any more exclusive interviews on GMB Shocked
JO
Jon
I’m sure Piers knew that was likely to happen.
JC
JCB
jacobmorton_27 posted:
Now that Trump's blocked Piers on Twitter, don't think we'll be getting any more exclusive interviews on GMB Shocked


I'm sure they'll make up again when Piers get's bored of this phase he's going through.
DJ
DJGM
It was mentioned during the 6am TOTH that Anne Diamond and Nick Owen are guests on today's Good Morning Britain (complete with a view of the original GMB titles and music), and during the intro, Piers Morgan said he didn't know there was an incarnation of GMB during the TV-am era in the 1980's.
WI
Willz
Anybody know why they are using the old open?
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
DJGM posted:
It was mentioned during the 6am TOTH that Anne Diamond and Nick Owen are guests on today's Good Morning Britain (complete with a view of the original GMB titles and music), and during the intro, Piers Morgan said he didn't know there was an incarnation of GMB during the TV-am era in the 1980's.


Hmm, nice to see the voiceover for this package went to waste then:


I'm willing to bet, though I can't find any evidence of it at the moment, that he appeared at some point on the original programme... Or (more likely?) GMTV.

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