This Morning

I don't think they did that. The only time I ever remember This Morning being on a Bank Holiday when Richard and Judy did it was on Easter Monday 1997 which was a deliberate attempt by ITV to spoil the first full day of Channel 5. Other than that they pretty much never did it. In those days they'd always go off for the summer and usually for Easter as well (and when they were on during school holidays, like half term, they'd include cartoons in the line-up).

I don't see what the argument is. So what if Loose Women is on today, doesn't mean everything has to be on, does it? I did some of the things I normally do on a Friday today but I didn't go to work. Complaints they don't do anything special for a Bank Holiday, complaints when they take the normal programmes off.

It's not so much the case anymore, but in the past some people had the Friday off and some people had the Tuesday off.

Today's edition of This Morning has (temporarily?) been interrupted by ITV News in light of the Prime Minister's General Election announcement.

According to the EPG, This Morning won't be coming back on air and Loose Women looks to have also been cancelled.

Yes, I've just watched Eamonn's update on Twitter.
I'd imagine that the News will take up most of this afternoon's blocks as well?

They'll probably be on the air until 2pm and then go back to normality. Unless North Korea sends us a celebratory missile.

I know there is most probably a set-procedure to follow when this kind of breaking news unfolds, but it's a shame that This Morning was taken off air today, seeing as Eamonn was presenting...delivering breaking news is his forte!

Although, it gave them the opportunity to pre-record interviews with already booked guests (i.e. Gordon Ramsay) to show on a less busy day.

Of course, it's nowhere near as unfortunate as ITN having to make the 6am handoff to GMTV during Diana death coverage. Ouch. The nearest thing they could do to gravitas that morning was dragging in Fiona Phillips...

Though I'm sure I've seen video of CNN or one of the news channels simulcasting GMTV, so they can't have thought they were all that bad!

During the Iraq war GMTV was simulcast on the ITV News Channel for a couple of weeks

Wasn't that because GMTV owned the slot and decided it would be better to simulcast rather than put up a slide for 205 minutes as they had been doing before?

Good to hear ITV went to the news and stuck with it - they could easily have just opted for a newsflash and been done with it.