Good Morning Britain

Tearing up the aformentioned cozy breakfast TV rulebook was something Channel 4 originally did nearly 26 years ago!

Whatever you think of the two current presenters, neither which I personally find easy to watch, they have finally given ITV a niche at breakfast. More news based, but not as fluffy as GMTV or Mark II Daybreak.

However for those of us who aren't a 12 year old pres enthusiast or a housewife and are actually able to watch breakfast tv for more than 2 mins, Breakfast and Sunrise continue to do a decent enough job of a rigid schedule of news and back end topical discussion.

Can someone explain why GMB discussion is in TV Home but BBC Breakfast is in TV Newsroom?

Precisely.

Some technical problems this morning.

The Big Breakfast was totally different to any breakfast TV that went before it, but even they didn't break the rule of having a rigid schedule.


The Big Breakfast had regular items at the same time every day and they stuck to it. So we'll in fact you could time your morning routine around it - make sure you had finished breakfast by the end of the paper review at 8, be out the door by the time the Crunch started at 8:20 etc.

Breakfast radio has always done this. If I was to rely on GMB I'd be late every day

Things changed though when Johnny came along and features ran for 10-15 minutes rather than 5, with the schedule amended over time to adapt to his style.

Feels like the right call to me.

If only they had a clock on screen.


Look forward to the "Fired because Piers Morgan made me late" headlines.

Yes, I'm not saying the 'clock' (as they called it in radio) stayed rigid for the whole lifetime of the programme, but it stayed regular from day to day



I have a clock on my arm too but that's not the point. Breakfast TV and radio are the background to busy mornings, you aren't looking at clocks you're ping stuff and rely on the regularity of the content.


As I say you can time your morning to most breakfast programmes, I know if I haven't passed a certain roundabout by the time Chris Evans is talking to a child, I'm late!

Is the view of the Thames that ITV London news have live? If so, why can't Good Morning Britain have that live view?

Because the touched-up view that they have looks infinitely better.

Because for the majority of the year it will be dark, gloomy, raining and grey.

And they already have enough of that on screen with Piers.