Today marked the end of an established era in breakfast television, as GMTV bid a fond farewell to our TV screens after seventeen years of dedicated and professional breakfast TV.
GMTV (Good Morning Television) started on Friday 1st January 1993, and has been presented over the years by the likes of Fiona Phillips, Eamonn Holmes, Michael Wilson, Anne Davies and Ben Shepherd. Today, it was former Sky News presenter Emma Crosby, Richard Arnold and Andrew Castle who bought down the curtain on such an emotional day for everyone involved with the company.
GMTV took over from the very popular TV-AM as the ITV breakfast franchise, following the controversial 1991 ITV Franchise Awards, which spelt the death knell for regional television symbols across the corporation. GMTV will be replaced by Daybreak on Monday, which will be presented by new recruits from the BBC, Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley. Some of the GMTV regulars, such as Dr. Hilary Jones, Kate Garraway and John Stapleton will still be around on the new breakfast show, though whether it will have the success that GMTV has created for a national audience is hard to say.
In the show’s final moments, Castle said the following:
"Like all families there have been squabbles along the way, but there have been no shortage of love, effort and perseverance, and we just want to say to the viewers who have been with us loyally for a long time, thank you so much." "Fingers crossed for them, really good luck."
Thank you GMTV for giving us so many memories, you will profoundly missed by everyone.
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