These were the days…. The bloke I used to live with worked nights and when he got home from the slog of the night shift he would peel his socks off and slap Westcountry TV on our old black and white TV set in the bedroom and there was GMTV… He used to have it on so loud though the sax on the theme score gave my tinnitus and we eventually split up. Not before many mornings of watching GMTV in bed with one another. Sometimes those days were good…. Other days no so much ! The people in the flat above us used to play Mica Paris to drown them out getting it on… We just used to play the GMTV theme !
Old clips of any TV progs are interesting I believe. To see how 'tele' has evolved is particularly relevent nowadays, as if we are not too careful, tv as we know it will be very different - assuming it survives the multi channel revolution, and the on-line attack!. Thank You for your comments.
Sadly GMTV would fall into chaos just like its predecessor TV AM did in 1983. Their trying to be more upmarket approach did not work and by the summer of 1993 GMTV reverted to a TV AM format, it seems this is the only format breakfast television on ITV suits well.
GMTV was not really a patch on TV-am was it really? A shame too that they did not have the same presenters as before, but of course they were trying out something new and different I guess at the time?
Perhaps the main problem with the original GMTV format was that it had an overwhelmingly yuppie feel to it, at a time when yuppiness(?!) had not long gone out of fashion. It had a weird juxtaposition too, trying to be taken seriously on its journalistic merit yet with a painfully forced mild wackiness. A wackiness which I felt was as a misguided response to The Big Breakfast. I suppose the format change to immitate TV-am was a wise move, but also a lazy one.
God GMTV this reminds me of getting ready for primary school.
Remember watching this back in my primary school days! Love the intro as it takes me back!
"lackluster", yet some poor man is blowing his lungs out for that sax entry at 0:22!
Quite liked that theme tune, especially the whizzy bit at the start which they sometimes used in the middle of the programme.
These were the days…. The bloke I used to live with worked nights and when he got home from the slog of the night shift he would peel his socks off and slap Westcountry TV on our old black and white TV set in the bedroom and there was GMTV…
He used to have it on so loud though the sax on the theme score gave my tinnitus and we eventually split up. Not before many mornings of watching GMTV in bed with one another.
Sometimes those days were good…. Other days no so much !
The people in the flat above us used to play Mica Paris to drown them out getting it on…
We just used to play the GMTV theme !
Friday 1st January 1993
0:00 - 0:40 I'm keen on this bit of music because it has joy and happiness, to me it feels so alive and maybe a bitta freedom.
+Jordan Carrington Jordan I know what you mean. The music was sadly the best thing on the programme! Happy 2016 to you.
What do you mean the music was sadly the best thing? And happy new year to you too.
Good morning. A new day, a new month, a new era. Welcome to BN-TV.
Is this the same Anne Davis who currently presents BBC East Midlands Today regional news?
This was Studio 5 at London Studios ITV
GMTV was in here on Friday January 1st 1993-Friday September 3rd 2010
Eamonn Holmes launched GMTV
This is the great theme tune to start the new breakfast show the gmtv
That was the best bit not the 3 1/2 hours of rubbish that followed it.
Old clips of any TV progs are interesting I believe. To see how 'tele' has evolved is particularly relevent nowadays, as if we are not too careful, tv as we know it will be very different - assuming it survives the multi channel revolution, and the on-line attack!. Thank You for your comments.
He certainly was, so was I in 1993!
Going to work back then in london. A 30 mile commute.
It is new year countdown in 10 seconds at 11:59pm to 12:00am.
Daybreak in 2010 to 2014, and Good Morning Britain in 2014 to present on ITV Breakfast.
Also Lorraine in 2010 to present also in weekdays, and CITV in weekends on ITV Breakfast
Yes Lee, but for the final couple of months of GMTV in 2010, they moved everything to Studio 3.
That's Right Monday June 7th 2010 GMTV moved to Studio 3 till Friday September 3rd 2010
Because Al Jazeera Sport moved to Studio 5
30 years ago. Goodness!
The Old GMTV.
Have you noticed the picture above the fireplace is wonky?
Or that it looked like the TV-am logo.
Sadly GMTV would fall into chaos just like its predecessor TV AM did in 1983. Their trying to be more upmarket approach did not work and by the summer of 1993 GMTV reverted to a TV AM format, it seems this is the only format breakfast television on ITV suits well.
I always thought GMTV had the national breakfast license until the "station" became a part of the ITV schedules
Abraham Ybañez ITV bought them outright then finally got their way and axed it.
And now it's called ITV Breakfast
GMTV was not really a patch on TV-am was it really? A shame too that they did not have the same presenters as before, but of course they were trying out something new and different I guess at the time?
love the bit where the random greengrocer gives out a grapefruit to a woman. just what you want at 6 in the morning!
Yes, I know exactly what you mean.
Greggs so put a stop to that.
breakfast with paddington
0:06 clips
Daybreak
Eammon Holmes was thin!
Perhaps the main problem with the original GMTV format was that it had an overwhelmingly yuppie feel to it, at a time when yuppiness(?!) had not long gone out of fashion.
It had a weird juxtaposition too, trying to be taken seriously on its journalistic merit yet with a painfully forced mild wackiness. A wackiness which I felt was as a misguided response to The Big Breakfast.
I suppose the format change to immitate TV-am was a wise move, but also a lazy one.
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