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Bleakley and Chiles talk Daybreak
Published 27 November 2010
Much has been said about ITV1’s Daybreak, the replacement for GMTV which, it has to be said, hasn’t got off to the greatest of starts. None of what’s been said has been said by me as frankly I’m a Today programme listener and not even my natural interest could beat my early morning, groggy inertia and make me put the television on. However whilst much has been said in the press and by other commentators, not a huge amount as been said by its stars. Until now.
ITV gobbles up its breakfast
Published 16 October 2004
Media Guardian: ITV tightens grip on GMTV The concept of a seperate franchise owning the 6-9:25am slot on Channel 3 is one wedded in history – a time when television…
The last oddity
Published 10 May 2004
MediaGuardian: ITV buys GMTV stake from SMG It’s an era where one company own the entire of ITV in England and Wales (and a small part of Scotland). 24 hours…
Changes on the quiet.
Published 16 November 2003
Sometimes, when a change takes place, it does so with enormous fanfare, other times, it barely gets noticed. This is one of those changes that happened at some point recently,…
Fourth time lucky?
Published 21 September 2003
BBC News on end of RI:SE Poor C4. The Channel Four Daily, The Big Breakfast, an unexpected interregnum, and RI:SE (in two flavours). The Channel Four Daily (C4D) was an…
Undoing the inevitable
Published 1 January 2003
Carl Ellis wants to unpick the Carlton-Granada tie-up
A good breakfast
Published 1 September 2001
David Hastings looks at the launch of breakfast television