I was gutted when GMTV finished. I was born in 1993, and so grew up watching it with my parents whilst getting ready for school - which I left in the same year it ended, 2010. I tried watching daybreak, but the presenters are what made the show great. I watch the BBC now.
Day break and good morning Britain was the name's used on TV_AM. GMTV won the franchise on breakfast television. Gmtv ratings started to decline so after hitting difficulties financially carlton tv bought into it. Carlton TV was again a franchise station for the itv network. Carlton TV and granada TV join and merger was completed making itv plc so all other franchises like Yorkshire television, lwt, Tyne tees all lost their on air identity to become itv. Itv would not support gmtv so new breakfast tv shows started and used names from the old defunct Tv-am programmes
If you were watching it at 7.32 am you would have seen Simon Parkin with his Alarm Alert spot for younger viewers now Alarm Alert was proud loud at impossible to ignore as well as waking the nation they would provide all the information you would need to survive until Saturday the weekday service was like this Mondays all the storylines from the popular soaps Tuesdays meant music find out who's up who's down who's in who's out in the top10 Wednesdays what's hot what's not slot was the ultimate guide for everything you should or shouldn't have get your computer fix every Thursday curtsey of Bad Influence's Violet Belin and to set you up for the weekend they previewed the hone video and cinema releases every Friday if you did get an Alarm Alert call(I know I did) you had to say these buzz off words I'm shaking up I'm waking up with Britain's breakfast bunch and they would send you an alarm clock that talks and you would get a double helping of cartoons(taken from Monday 4th January 1993)
GMTV was separately owned from the rest of the ITV network - ITV plc bought them out in 2009 and replaced their show(s) with Daybreak (then Good Morning Britain after Daybreak was very poorly received).
@@Rexowogamer I still don't know why Daybreak was poorly received, and Good Morning Britain wasn't. All 3 programs, GMTV and the other two, are the same exact program. Just with different names. But the structure of the show, the sets, the presenters, the fact Lorraine presents in the hours after everyone had gone to work, etc are all basically identical. Why was daybreak received badly when it was identical to GMTV? And then why was Good Morning Britain well received when it was also identical to GMTV and Daybreak!? It's absolutely nuts. People will complain about anything it seems. I'm even complaining about it now.
@@duffman18 You see, I only saw Daybreak once or twice but I think it was the presenting team. Nothing wrong with Adrian and Christine in principle but viewers missed the GMTV line up - if ITV had tried to hang onto more of them and had the likes of Ben Shepherd and Kate Garraway (why shove her into a supporting role?!) at the helm from the beginning, I think it could have survived.
the team that created this music deserve an award - the theme at 1.12 and at 5.00 are special. really good music. the one at 5.00 starts with a really low bass and works up - really really good music
Sadly, many things in the past would be good in the future. I remember Eamoon Holmes on the late 1990's GMTV before the taxi would arrive to take me to school 😍!
1:30 - I remember that sting tune - as I was making my strong coffee in the kitchen, next to the TV. Bleary eyed and dreading the commute I would have to make.
5:03 This opening animation was always my favourite and best designed in my opinion. Especially when the GMTV text fly's in and it makes the "swoosh" sound effect. It's the little things.
5:11 will always be my favorite. The words orbitting the Sun and the electric guitars just make it for me. Really enjoyed seeing that as a kid. They should bring it back.
It would be nice of them to actually bring GMTV back and have another complete revamp. A refresh of the theme, the set, the opening titles, graphics and presenters. A lot more people would join back to watching ITV breakfast again and I think it would be a success. I think Daybreak is a little boring compared to what GMTV was like, but I suppose that's what people thought when it changed from TVAM to GMTV.
GMTV went away when I was 8! Then I was stuck with Daybreak, but I was happy when in 2012 they rebranded it, brought back the old faces, I watch Good Morning Britain now, which still have some of the old faces. :D
I practically grew up with GMTV, I was upset when Daybreak came on, But now it's Good Morning Britain, I like them, but nothing will compare to GMTV :>
Gmtv the best show on tv I remember getting ready for school during this it was excellent really miss wish they would bring it back with all the gang great great show loved the tune very catchy
The junction music and intro at 8am - rushing for school memories :) This really did seem a happy programme but then it was also actually a totally separate channel technically
I do think they would gain some of the viewers back if they bought GMTV back. They would need some of the presenters though to regain the warmth of the show.
if the ownership of GMTV didn't end up being solely ITV plc (Carlton Television and Granada Television) then I'm sure the two companies would of kept GMTV up and running to this day
I agree, at least Eamonn Holmes wouldn't be shouting at guests, ranting about everything under the sun. Eamonn can be awful, but compared to Piers Moron on GMB in 2019, Eamonn is a saint.
I can remember GMTV - with its news programming at the weekdays and it’s children’s programming (which would be simulcast on both ITV 1 and the CITV Channel from 2006 to 2010) on weekends
Why on earth did they cancel GMTV for Daybreak, which was an epic failure, and then to Good Morning Britain, which has also failed. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I think GMTV will eventually come back. Had enough of GMB already. Bad mistakes ITV.
Yes I completely agree. ITV only cancelled GMTV because it wasn't originally their show, so when they had 100% ownership of the station they decided to put their mark on it, which was a fail. I agree, I could see it coming back in another three or four years time. I think GMB is better than Daybreak in some ways but it is not meeting the needs of its target audience.
I was born in 2002 so I’m too young for all of this but I do vaguely remember the late 2000s titles. We watch Breakfast in my house but sometimes flick over to GMB. We might have done the same with GMTV
Fml, i remember it being so modern and cutting edge back in the 1990s and even the 2000s, this theme song echoing in the living room before school! Now looks so dated 😂 hard to believe the original GMTV theme tune is over 30 years old 🥴 and its been 14 years since it stopped airing.
Strange that the short lived GMTV news presenter Jacqui Harper, recruited from BBC Newsroom South East, features twice in the original opening sequence, but barely lasted a couple of years actually reading the news on GMTV!
im more or less the same, except not born in 1993 XD i stopped watching it as soon as daybreak started and gmtv finished. but for years, always watched it in the morning getting ready for school. bbc now.
I have just noticed something with the second lot of titles featuring Anthea and Eamonn. He is portrayed as the serious journalist on the telephone while she is shown having her make up done. I think that was half the trouble between them. He had learnt his craft in dangerous conditions in Northern Ireland while she was from children's entertainment. It does not excuse his behaviour towards her at times, but they just came at things so differently it did not work.
I'm not completely sure, but as I understand from 2000 until 2009, GMTV decided to split it's 3.5 hours up even more, (GMTV Newshour, GMTV Today, LK Today and ET Today). And since it was aired that day I suppose that's where 'Today' came from. I hope that helps?
So I've been going through all of the presenters, searching RU-vid for clips, and checking the Wayback Machine to see if I can find out for sure, but I can't seem to find anything. It *looks* like Clare Nasir prior to 2003, but I'm not 100% sure.
An amazing nostalgia trip for... Well, it's going to be a big spread of ages whose parents watched GMTV, isn't it? Theme near enough unchanged for 15 years or so barring the memorable Christmas additions... If you're in your early thirties like me you had it for basically your entire childhood, but there'll be twentysomethings who had this in earlier childhood and people pushing 40 who heard it in secondary school... Less said about the 2009 rebrand the better. Whatever else Daybreak did wrong, it didn't look as bad as that.
