One person (John King) comments underneath about the show -
"Christ, looking back at this, I am baffled to understand how they thought this pile of crap would attract viewers and advertisers from 6-7am each weekday morning. Hard news, farming, politics, yes that is just what you want when you wake up bleary eyed from your warm bed, and turn on the TV to be informed yes, but not in this way."
It was indeed unwatchable dirge, however I suspect they were trying to emulate Radio 4 at that time of the morning that followed, and still follows, that format
What happened to Piers Morgan? He used to be a pretty successful campaigning editor of a socially progressive newspaper, that was pretty left leaning. Now he's a caricature.
He likes being the story.
If you draw one of those HR skill set venn diagrams, there’s a large overlap between Politician, Journalist, and PR officer. Many jump between the three during their working lives of course. Morgan may well have been editor of the Mirror, but he was paid to follow the newspaper’s line, I’ve always labelled him as right of centre.
I can well imagine Laura Kuenssburg becoming a politician one day, to her credit I honestly can’t predict which party she’d represent
I would actually say that the big issue with ITV Breakfast is historical. GMTV and Daybreak both attempted to reinvent the wheel, but both of them ultimately ended up falling back to the format originally done by TV-am at its peak.
GMB is the first time a harder edge has been tried and it's worked
. Not too hard, but certainly the feel of the show is not quite "summer every day" and bright colours TV-am pioneered and then ended up being used by their first two successors.
Worth remembering that when TV-am began at the very start with all it's worthy ambitions early in 1983 they kicked off each morning between 6am and 7am with a very hard news driven agenda called Daybreak presented by Robert Kee before going to the less formal sofa aspect from 7am as the original Good Morning Britain, although apparently not long after 7am on the first day on 1st February there was a lengthy political interview by David Frost with Norman "on your bike" Tebbit about Unemployment, which he was the cabinet minister for at the time. Not what most of us would be enticed by on a dark winter's morning it has to be said.
One person (John King) comments underneath about the show -
"Christ, looking back at this, I am baffled to understand how they thought this pile of crap would attract viewers and advertisers from 6-7am each weekday morning. Hard news, farming, politics, yes that is just what you want when you wake up bleary eyed from your warm bed, and turn on the TV to be informed yes, but not in this way."
That's what I mean. GMB is the first slightly more heavyweight programme (although certainly not to the extent of the original TV-am) to work, or at least have been given time.
Caught some of the interview in the last half an hour of the program, and it appeared to be edited rather a lot. I’m guessing that there was lots of rambling, so they were forced to try and string it together. There was nothing particularly significant to come out of the interview to be honest, maybe Trump’s pledge to run again (although that’ll be ‘fake news’ soon). Whether you can really call it an interview is debatable, it felt more like a friendly chat. Although Morgan is in something of a difficult position; he can’t throw Trump to the dogs in his usual style because there certainly wouldn’t be anymore interviews.
There was nothing particularly significant to come out of the interview to be honest, maybe Trump’s pledge to run again (although that’ll be ‘fake news’ soon).
That's nothing new, he filed his application for the 2020 election a few days after the 2016 one
