TV-am's last broadcast was nearly 15 years ago, and yet I think that GM-TV still hasn't surpassed it. Whereas TV-am was warm and relaxed, GM-TV is just tabloid and trashy. So I say Good Morning Britain should be ressurected! Kathryn Holloway would present the first hour, and the rest of the programme would be presented by Mike and Lorraine.
They should also rebuild the pink set, and resurrect the old music and pastel graphics. Further, Sky News would be comissioned to produce the news. This would save money and make it more authentic!
Putting aside the fact that TV-am will not return, I think many people are a bit naieve to believe that a resurrected TV-am in 2006 would have the same quality as TV-am in 1992 (not that TV-am was ever *that* good - I think people are remembering it through rose-tinted spectacles). Had it survived, it would doubtless be just as dire today as GMTV is. Remember that Lorraine Kelly, presenter of the most trashy elements which GMTV has, is herself a relic from TV-am.
Annoying spots featuring Dr. Hilary Jones commenting on every scaremongering medical issue the tabloid press got hold of also started with TV-am, as did the chronically dull and over run Through The Keyhole.
GMTV cannot be "axed" as technically it is a channel rather than a programme. GMTV would have to lose its Breakfast franchise for it to be "axed" and I cant see that happening.
GMTV cannot be "axed" as technically it is a channel rather than a programme. GMTV would have to lose its Breakfast franchise for it to be "axed" and I cant see that happening.
GM-tv though is free to axe its programmes and replace them with something very similar to good morning britain.
Personally I would love to see TVam back - GMTV as a company is shocking too much sponsorsed by this etc, The TVam company with the some of the faces from GMTV (Loraine KellY and Ben Shepard) would be ideal
GMTV cannot be "axed" as technically it is a channel rather than a programme. GMTV would have to lose its Breakfast franchise for it to be "axed" and I cant see that happening.
GM-tv though is free to axe its programmes and replace them with something very similar to good morning britain.
Be that as it may, it would be pretty pointless considering they must be doing something right to branch out onto ITV2.
Anyway its well documented about TV-AM's financial issues through its early to mid life and it would have disappeared long before the franchise came up for renewal if events hadn'd had panned out the way they did. And who's to say it wouldn't have gone the same way (in a downhill direction) that GMTV has if TV-AM had survived?
I seem to remember Gyngell's heated talk to the press on the day of the franchise awards that he predicted Sunrise (which later was renamed GMTV to save legal battles from Sky) would go bankrupt within 2 years.
*Its presenters and production staff have been dispersed across the industry and beyond... some, no doubt, to better things.
*ITVplc owns a 75% stake in GMTV. Indeed the chances are that before too long the breakfast slot won't be a distinct franchise.
*And as GMTV's output is market-driven, who's to say it isn't what TV-am would have turned into.
There comes a point when wanting a lost station to return becomes meaningless. The world and the broadcasting industry have changed a lot since 1991. A franchise change simply acts as a watershed moment.
Of course, whether a company should have lost its franchise in the first place is another matter entirely. That was one of the big problems with the idea of awarding franchises to the highest bidder. But would TV-am have survived an old-fashioned IBA beauty contest? Remember the trouble TV-am got into with the IBA in the mid eighties over the quality of its news coverage? There was no love lost between the IBA, the rest of ITV and TV-am.
PS And if you want Anne and Nick back.... well think what happened the last time!! (BBC1 mid nineties)
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But hasn't TV-AM come back in a sense?
GM-TV was never supposed to be like this format!
If I remember correctly, GM-TV had a lot of problem when it started, and ditch its original format! And went to, as to say it moved to a TV-AM format, in around 94-95. So basically this is TV-AM in all its greatness, although with different titles, music and slight too much razz’o Dassel
GMTV could try a version of the popular NBC TODAY Show. I know that the main programme is called GMTV TODAY, but who calls it that. It would be better if ITV bought it out, kept the same team, and started a new TODAY show.
6.00am - 6.30am - ITV Morning News
6.30am - 9.00am - TODAY
With Fiona Phillips, Andrew Castle all the latest news, entertainment and lifestyle features. Special consumer reports. In the TODAY Kitchen is Phil Vickery as he shows how to cook a healthy breakfast.
9.00am - 9.45am - Live With Lorraine Kelly
Health and Wellbeing with the guru herself - Lorraine Kelly. Also joined live with the Sugababes
"Live, from the London Studios, this is TODAY, with Fiona Philips and Andrew Castle"
