Good Morning Britain

At the same time, however, Piers Morgan isn't renowned for is huggable, jumper-wearing loveliness, that breakfast presenters of by-gone eras were. So if they were to promote the line-up as 'look how nice we all get on' whilst the show makes headlines for an interview confronting a 12 year old girl about killing her cat, then it wouldn't be representative. That's not to say he's not a nice person, he certainly seems to have a good sense of humour.

The British public has always generally worked on the basis that it wants its breakfast presenters to be nice, huggable inoffensive types, and as a former presenter once said in a documentary - her name escapes me - it likes to discover its own stars.

However, having played first of all the "get the big names in" - which failed miserably - then the "here's the people they know, they'll like them", which also failed miserably, it seems fair to me that they just roll the dice and tried something different.

Bringing Piers in was a gutsy move, because it could have killed the show stone dead, but it now seems to be recovering a bit even if it's not market leader. Him and Susanna are a good team and there's plenty of experienced back-up there - strength in depth, to use a football comparison Piers would no doubt be pleased with.

I suspect BBC1 will be in the lead for some time to come - ITV hasn't quite known what to do with that slot since the end of GMTV, and it takes five minutes to lose a viewer and months, possibly years, to get them back. But if they're able to build on what they have it should at least stop GMB tanking daytime's overall figures, and could grow further. You've got a show which has a relatively traditional approach with an edge, which may attract viewers who would otherwise have gone to a Channel 4 breakfast show, and the advantage of being in London where the guests are rather than down a line (although, as much as I like the grand entrance, I don't know how much barking about it at the top of the hour helps with making it relatable to the rest of the UK - if you asked the average punter where Breakfast came from they wouldn't know)

Where were Susannah and Piers this morning or is there something big later this week which means they are on Friday instead?

Piers was interviewing the Dalai Lama today for tomorrow's show.

"Taxi for the Lama"

Its actually from next and is retailing at £40

Have you bought one by any chance?

Nahh. Not that sad

How is this making news?! And top story on DS... http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a809142/good-morning-britain-big-mistake-robbie-williams-new-album-brandon-flowers-brendon-urie/

If anybody on GMB, X Factor or This Morning so much lets out a fart, DS lose their minds.

The wide shot at 6am on today's TOTH showed the sofa area whilst the lights were flashing different colours. Surprisingly the sofa area looks nice with the background lighting on blue as seen on 0:50 of this video:
I have to comment saying the recent refresh is growing on me. If you were wondering where the old weather screen has gone it is now used in the performance area on a stand to show what's coming up with Martin Lewis: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/good-morning-britain-presenter-flustered-8937936?ICID=FB_mirror_main

They have drastically shortened those openers recently. They used to have about 6 stories and OBs during a couple of them. The opener used to swallow up the first couple of minutes.