The winners are never satisfying on shows like that, often a very recent show wins because it's fresh in the mind. The trip down memory lane along the way is the enjoyable part for me.
Some fun clips on 'You saw them here first' from the ITV archives. In a way it's a shame it's so rushed as they got Brucie in and only had 2 mins, you could get half an hour out of him talking about his old ITV shows. Although isn't that a current show on BBC1 during the day.
That was a lot better than I expected it to be. Quite a lot of old regional stuff too.
One thing I wish they wouldn't do so much is talk over the clips - you heard barely a word of some of the early Schofield stuff once they'd put his reactions and the narration over the top. I don't think I've seen that Saturday Superstore clip before, when presumably he had to come into work on a Saturday morning to show them how he does the broom cupboard! Also I was sure his first This Morning had been an Albert Dock fill-in during the early days of his ITV career, but the one they showed last night was a South Bank one from 1998. Maybe I imagined it...
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During Lorraine's segment, I noticed the voiceover referred to her wedding, which was covered by TV-am, as being in 1994, but it was 1992.
It was TV-am graphics so they got the date wrong. Otherwise the show was pretty well researched, even mentioning TV-am ended when they lost the franchise (not axed or other viewer-friendly way of putting it).
There was one section where they showed how ITV's breakfast output has changed "from TV-am, to GMTV, to Good Morning Britain". Ouch - hard luck Daybreak!
There was one section where they showed how ITV's breakfast output has changed "from TV-am, to GMTV, to Good Morning Britain". Ouch - hard luck Daybreak!
Aside from the fact it's only been ITV's breakfast output since they bought GMTV out... Prior to that it was an entirely different company (save for GMTV which had ITV input but not overall control). But anyway that's getting technical and beside the point, and I suspect ITV, after the failure of Daybreak, want to pretend it never happened.
Quite like the low key approach ITV are taking to their birthday - the content is more interesting as a result IMO. Mondays' series especially was quite different to how I expected it to be - assumed it would be dominated by the big TV shows or news stories but it's all about the little slices of life and all the more fascinating as a result.
You Saw them Here First had a few new clips too, plus shows I had no recollection of at all, though could have been put together a bit better IMO.
It was nice to see 'Mavis and Rita' reminiscing about their old TV roles.
Also Brucie commenting on the 'strange set up they've got here', it's obviously done using green screen and a researcher asking the questions which are then revoiced by the narrator in post production.
