Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)
Good Morning Britain (often abbreviated to GMB) is a British breakfast television programme that is broadcast on ITV. It first appeared on 28 April 2014 and is broadcast live every weekday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am across the United Kingdom. The programme features a variety of news, interviews, politics, sport, entertainment, competitions and weather as well as local news bulletins delivered by the ITV regions. The programme is currently presented by Susanna Reid, Kate Garraway, Richard Madeley, Ed Balls and Adil Ray.
For the former ITV programme of the same name, see Good Morning Britain (1983 TV programme)Good Morning Britain
Stuart Earl
- Henry Gorman
- Simon Hill
- Rob May[1]
United Kingdom
English
- Studio 5, The London Studios (2014–18)
- Studio TC3, Television Centre (2018–)[2]
Neil Thompson[3]
150 minutes (2014–2020)
180 minutes (2020–) (inc. adverts)
28 April 2014 –
present
Format[edit]
The magazine-style show includes headline updates at the beginning of the programme and at the top of each hour thereafter, then three short three-minute regional bulletins at quarter past the hour featuring news, travel/transit advisories, and weather.[4] From 6 January 2020, the first half-hour features Hawkins, Garraway or Singh reading the day's headlines, joined at 6:30 a.m. by two of the main anchors, and although this format was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, it later returned on 31 August 2020.[5][6] The show features interviews with celebrities and politicians as well as discussion of topical issues, with a reputation for often heated debates.[7][8] Viewers are encouraged to engage with the show through digital platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and there are regular competitions which the audience can enter, usually presented by Andi Peters.[9]
Weather bulletins are presented by Laura Tobin, with entertainment and health being presented by Richard Arnold and Dr Hilary Jones respectively.[10][11][12]
Studio[edit]
2014–2018[edit]
Good Morning Britain was broadcast from Studio 5 at The London Studios, the same studio where GMTV was broadcast from during its seventeen-year run. In February 2017, it was announced that The London Studios, where Good Morning Britain is broadcast, would be closed for some years beginning in 2018 as ITV decided to go through with demolishing the building and having it rebuilt. It was also announced that ITV's daytime shows (Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women) would be moving to studio space at BBC Studioworks' Television Centre, previously used by the BBC before moving in March 2013. The last programme from The London Studios was broadcast on 13 April 2018.[55]
2018–present[edit]
ITV's daytime shows moved to Television Centre on 16 April 2018, with Good Morning Britain using Studio TC3. This 6,390 sq ft (594 m2) studio is split in two, with half of it being used for Good Morning Britain and half for This Morning.[2] They share the same cameras and gallery. In October 2018, it was announced that ITV would not be returning to the South Bank.[56]