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The following details are for the programmes that GMTV ( Good Morning Television ) broadcast on ITV .

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65-550: GMTV is the former breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on Friday 1 January 1993 and finished on Friday 3 September 2010, being replaced by ITV Breakfast . GMTV is the original brand for GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme from 6:00 am. It included national and international news stories, regional news, weather, interviews, cookery and health features, human-interest and showbiz stories, and competitions. In spring 1993, shortly after

130-648: A PGCert in journalism. Phillips started her career in independent radio working as a reporter for local stations County Sound in Surrey , Hereward Radio and Radio Mercury in Sussex . Moving from radio to television several years later, she joined BBC South East 's Weekend programme as co-presenter, before becoming a reporter with CNN News, later moving on to become the station's entertainment editor, producing, reporting and presenting CNN News' entertainment output. Phillips has presented other programmes, including

195-643: A simulcast of the channel CITV , until August 2023, when kids programmes were moved to ITVX and ITV2 . Daytime repeats are now broadcast during the earlier hours of the ITV Breakfast slot at weekends. The talk show Weekend was broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays at 8:30a.m. until 2017 when it didn't return after the Christmas break. It was hosted by Aled Jones . Various other similar talk shows have aired in this slot, including Martin & Roman's Weekend Best! . ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited

260-508: A day. From 7 June 2010, ITV4 ceased simulcasting, meaning that from early June 2010, GMTV2 could only be seen on the CITV channel, again allowing ITV4 to broadcast 24 hours a day. Originally, Action Stations! featured the voices of Toonattik presenters Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson in the form of robots with pre-recorded links in between cartoons, and was later voiced by Mike Rance as a spaceship captain. Between September 2009 and May 2010,

325-456: A general magazine programme to become a weekly political programme. Anne Davies , left the programme in January 1994 when the format started to change to increase the amount of current affairs. Mike Morris , left in mid September after being unhappy with the refocus of the programmes. Roy Hattersley was drafted in to present. The last programme was on 9 October 1994. It was suddenly replaced

390-429: A giant puppet named "It". Laura and Victoria also left and were replaced with Liam Dolan (previously a presenter on CBBC ) and Abbie Pethullis , with voiceovers from Phil Gallagher . From 2003, for the first time Diggin' It was allowed to have its presenters discussing the weekend's line-up on CITV every Friday afternoon. Liam Dolan was seen sending a Happy Birthday message to CITV on 3 January 2003 on behalf of

455-757: A mother and baby slot. This led to her becoming the main presenter of Nine O'Clock Live . The show proved so popular that it moved to the earlier 8:35 am slot had been retitled Lorraine Live in the Autumn 1997. The main guest host for Lorraine Kelly when she was ill or on holiday, was Fiona Phillips , but after the birth of Fiona's children, she shared the job with Andrea McLean . Occasionally when neither were available, guest hosts were drafted in like Dale Winton and Paul O'Grady . After 2008, once both Andrea and Fiona had left, guest hosts were drafted in. In January 2000, as GMTV rebranded to GMTV Today , and Lorraine's show changed its name to LK Today . As part of

520-674: A number of big news stories including the Michael Jackson alleged child molestation case , the LA earthquake , the first O.J. Simpson trial , the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and the Oscars. She also interviewed some of the industry's biggest stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio , Clint Eastwood , Brad Pitt and Mel Gibson among others. From 1997 to 2008, she was the main anchor on GMTV , presenting GMTV Today every Monday to Wednesday. On 28 August 2008, Phillips announced that she

585-464: A recreate a more news-based content throughout the entirety of the show and create consistency. Part of the relaunch were due to the significant presenter changes. These included the departure of Fiona Phillips and Andrea McLean , who were replaced by Emma Crosby and Kirsty McCabe. The same presenters from Today continued to present the 7:00   am to 8:30/9:25   am slot until June 2010, and then 6:00   am to 8:30/9:25   am slot until

650-617: A regular basis as newspaper reviewers on Lorraine . Fiona Phillips Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961) is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. She is best known for presenting the ITV Breakfast programme GMTV Today . Phillips was born in Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury , Kent , the daughter of Phillip (died February 2012) and Amy (died May 2006). Her grandparents ran

715-416: A replacement for Sunday Best , which was GMTV's original Sunday morning magazine. The programme aired between 7:00 am and 8:00 am, just after The Sunday Review (a 60-minute signed review of the week's news). It was originally presented by Alastair Stewart , who left in 2001, and Steve Richards took over. From 1995 to 2001, the programme was called Alastair Stewart's Sunday Programme , but this

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780-434: A six-week break. It aired in the same slot as Entertainment Today ; Fridays at 8:40   am. The programme was broadcast for 45 minutes, and included TV related guests and entertainment features. The show returned again in the summer of 2008, due to the popularity, for another six-week series. GMTV's TV critic Richard Arnold was at the helm. The following week, GMTV Today extended its on-air time to 9:25   am, as it

845-403: A stand-in. Pippa never returned and was soon removed from the opening title sequence. However, some pre-recorded location items featuring Pippa were shown over the weeks after her departure. Carmen remained as the female presenter on a permanent basis, and after the departure of Stuart, become the sole presenter until the show's later demise. Disney cartoons were the main staple, of which the show

910-422: A wonky house, an 'outside' area (which was in fact still the studio), a jail cell, and an area known as 'The splatter dome'. The entire set was deliberately cartoon-like in appearance. After around 5 months into the series, Pippa was suddenly dropped from the show. The reasons surrounding her departure are not clear. At first Stuart told the audience that "Pippa isn't here this week" and introduced Carmen Ejogo as

975-584: Is a regular reporter for the BBC One consumer affairs programme Watchdog . On 19 March 2015, Phillips presented The Truth About...Sugar and on 2 June 2016, she presented The Truth About...Healthy Eating . Both programmes aired on BBC One . In 1993, Phillips joined GMTV as entertainment correspondent and was promoted to GMTV /Reuters Television's LA correspondent in December 1993. For over two years Phillips provided daily and weekly reports and covered

1040-877: Is a subsidiary of ITV Broadcasting Limited. The shows broadcast are produced by ITV Breakfast Ltd, a subsidiary of ITV Studios . GMTV (1993 – 2000, 2009 – 2010) GMTV Newshour (1997–2009) GMTV Today (2000–2009) GMTV with Lorraine (2009–2010) Daybreak (2010–2014) Good Morning Britain (2014–present) GMB Today (August 2017) Good Morning Britain with Lorraine (March–July 2020, December 2021) Lorraine (2010–present) Formerly, Victoria Derbyshire , Mark Durden-Smith , Julia Hartley-Brewer , Kevin Maguire , Aasmah Mir , Andrew Pierce , Adil Ray , Celia Walden , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , Oona King , Olly Mann , Michael Portillo and Natasha Courtenay-Smith appeared on

1105-426: Is a supporter of Chelsea F.C. , although she followed her home town club, Southampton F.C. when she was younger. Philips has reported to have been a vegetarian for over twenty years. However in 2015, she commented, "I'm mainly vegetarian, but I have fish maybe once a month if my body feels it needs it." In July 2023, Phillips revealed that she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2022. Phillips

1170-655: Is a supporter of the Labour Party . She said she had been offered a job in November 2007 as public health minister in the administration of Gordon Brown , as well as a peerage . Phillips said she declined due to her responsibilities to her two small children. She attended the 2009 Labour Party Conference in Brighton, where she introduced an address by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson . She

1235-709: Is one of the judges of the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards , and for presenting the GMTV Emergency Services award. She has also been one of the judges for the Children of Courage awards. From 15 October 2007, she reported from Geita, North Tanzania, for one week to visit Neema, a 13-year-old girl who Phillips has been sponsoring, and her family, friends and local schools. On 13 March 2008, Phillips, while Age Concern Ambassador, presented

1300-542: The Diggin'It team. The show was dropped on 30 January 2005 to make way for the merger of Diggin' It and Up on The Roof into Toonattik . Saturday Disney was GMTV's first children's programme, broadcast from 2 January 1993 to 30 March 1996 on Saturday mornings. Initially presented by Stuart Miles and Pippa Ford-Jones, with other presenters including Tara Lynne O'Neill , was a mixture of Disney cartoons old and new, celebrity guests, games and features. The set featured

1365-501: The 6:00   am to 7:00   am slot until June 2010 ( Penny Smith and John Stapleton ) GMTV Today was GMTV's flagship weekday breakfast programme, comprising national and international news stories, regional news, weather, human-interest features and competitions. It was also designed to be more lighter and friendlier against the Newshour which preceded it. The original presenters were Eamonn Holmes and Lorraine Kelly. Kelly

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1430-540: The British release of Shark Tale . Phillips hosted a show on Smooth Radio in the 2–5 pm slot every Sunday, starting from Easter Sunday, 23 March 2008, until 2009 when she left the station. She also stood in for Simon Mayo on Radio 5 Live from 30 March to 3 April 2009. Phillips has been married to Martin Frizell since 1997 and they have two children. Frizell is the editor of This Morning . Phillips

1495-635: The Duke's Head pub on Church Street in St Paul's. Phillips attended Kingsmead Primary School. The family later moved to Southampton where Phillips completed her schooling at Millbrook Community School . After leaving school, Phillips worked for a short time at Mr Kipling 's Bakery in Eastleigh , near Southampton. Phillips graduated from Birmingham Polytechnic with a BA (Hons) in English; she also undertook

1560-535: The GMTV kitchen was introduced which would involve a chef appearing for the entire week cooking their dish at 9:00 am. The kitchen was set up in the area where the news desk was usually positioned, however, when GMTV moved to Studio 3, the kitchen faced a new look, and the position of it moved. In April 2010 to make GMTV' s programming more consistent, GMTV with Lorraine began airing all year round, instead of breaking during school holidays, with guest presenters. For

1625-609: The Morning in January 1993. In March when Fiona Armstrong walked out of the main GMTV show, Lorraine moved to the GMTV slot and Fern Britton and Amanda Redington took over hosting Top of the Morning . Top of the Morning was produced by an independent production company. In 1994 it was replaced with the GMTV-produced Quarter to Nine . In June 1994, Kelly went on maternity leave, returning in November 1994 to do

1690-642: The celebrity lifestyle show OK! TV , Baby House and Room to Rent , Carlton's entertainment guide Good Stuff , LWT's Friday evening entertainment show Start the Weekend , ITV's Sunday Night and the Rich and Famous series. Phillips currently writes an opinion column in the Daily Mirror on Saturdays and works as an agony aunt in New! magazine . Phillips was a regular panellist on Loose Women in 2002, and

1755-430: The channel's launch, a separate news-focused programme was introduced between 6:00   am and 7:00 am, which in early 1994 became The Reuters News Hour . The main 6:00–9:00 am programme remained named GMTV but, as part of the show's new look for the millennium, this main programme later became GMTV Today . On 3 January 2000, GMTV relaunched and changed the names of each of their programmes. This now meant

1820-595: The children of earth whilst trying to keep them from the clutches of the evil Dr Poopanski (James Hunt) who wanted to keep the cartoons for himself. Diggit/Diggin' It was one of GMTV's weekend children's programmes, which began on 14 March 1998 and replaced Wake Up in the Wild Room . It also replaced Disney Club on Sunday mornings. It was broadcast from 7:10   am to 9:25   am on Saturdays and 8:00   am to 9:25   am on Sundays. Additional editions on bank holidays and summer holidays were shown under

1885-420: The demise of the show. Sunday Best was GMTV's original Sunday magazine programme, launched in January 1993. It was originally intended to be a Sunday edition of the regular weekday programme, featuring the regular lifestyle and human interest stories, interviews, and news bulletins. Originally it aired from 7:20 am–8:50 am and was hosted by Eamonn Holmes and Anne Davies . By the start of March it

1950-496: The documentary The Killer in Me on 8 November 2007, a show that saw four celebrities agree to take a groundbreaking test that revealed the secret killers lurking in their genes. Phillips joined former England footballer John Barnes , political commentator and presenter Andrew Neil , and Heart FM DJ Toby Anstis who all found out their risk of developing 11 major diseases, including cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. Phillips

2015-650: The first time on the EPG it gave details for the programmes broadcast in the Toonattik time slot. Action Stations! was the flagship children 's strand of the British breakfast television station , GMTV2 (branded as part of CITV ). The slot aired between 06:00 and 08:40 on the CITV channel. It began broadcasting on 13 March 2006 and was simulcast on both the CITV channel and ITV2 ; however, it moved to ITV4 on 17 March 2008, meaning that ITV2 could broadcast 24 hours

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2080-438: The first time since the station's launch the logo was changed from the 'sun' logo. Despite the changes, the same theme music and headline beds were still used throughout the programme and nothing altered with the weather until 18 January 2010. However, on 9 March 2009, GMTV introduced new theme music and headline beds to its main programmes, replacing the previous music that had been in use since 2000. On 31 August 2009, GMTV saw

2145-427: The first week of the school holidays, ITV News anchor Nina Hossain presented the show, with Ruth Langsford presenting the following week. On 9 July 2010, as well as the announcement that GMTV had been axed to make way for Daybreak , it was also revealed that Lorraine's new programme Lorraine would replace GMTV with Lorraine . On 16 July 2010, Lorraine presented her last show before leaving, and throughout

2210-418: The following Sunday on 16 October 1994 by The Sunday Review (a 60-minute signed review of the week's news which had been broadcasting since early 1993 under the name "Timeshift"), and The Sunday Programme , shortly after Mike Morris left GMTV, stating that Sunday Best was becoming too political for a Sunday morning. The Sunday Programme was GMTV's political programme. It launched on 16 October 1994 as

2275-511: The following weekend, the slot relaunched with out-of-vision presentation. From that point Toonattik also featured British cartoons. As of 12 March 2006, GMTV simulcasted Toonattik on the CITV channel during their allocated broadcast time, allowing younger Sky Digital , Virgin Media and Freeview viewers to access the show through the children's section of the EPG for the first time. Also, for

2340-553: The hour, a detailed bulletin at half-past the hour, and the Top Stories at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour. These replaced the hour and half-hour bulletins which featured previously. Fiona Phillips and Andrea McLean left the show in late 2008. In November 2008 it was announced that Sky News business presenter Emma Crosby would replace Phillips, and the BBC 's Kirsty McCabe would replace McLean as weather presenter. Aside from

2405-459: The introduction of 3D graphics, graphic animations, through the use of a new system called VizRT, and a voice-over announcer to introduce presenters at the top of the hour. These were later slightly revised in October of that year. The show had previously been criticised for its poor journalistic approach although from 2009 it took on a more confident approach, with 7-minute bulletins at the top of

2470-425: The later rebrand that took place at the start of 2009, the show again changed its title to GMTV with Lorraine , to coincide with GMTV Today changing back to GMTV . Lorraine moved for the first time into the main GMTV studio, instead of having her own part of the studio to host from. In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company's 25% share. The format of

2535-571: The latest fashion, food and celebrity gossip, hosted by Lorraine Kelly . There was also regular specialist guests, who made regular appearances. Due to Lorraine living in Scotland , Monday and Tuesday episodes were broadcast live, with Wednesday and Thursday's shows pre-recorded and broadcast as live. The show's target audience was women, therefore during events such as Fashion Week , the programme broadcast live from location with fashion expert Mark Heyes . Lorraine Kelly first began presenting Top of

2600-402: The name Diggit Extra . Initially, the show was presented by Paul Ballard (known on screen as Des) and Fearne Cotton . On Des's weekends off, the show was often co-presented by Reggie Yates . In September 1998, the show launched a search for a new presenter (similar to the one that discovered Fearne a few years earlier). Viewers had the chance to vote for a winner in December 1998; the winner

2665-453: The new members of the team, previous presenters continued to present in their previous slots and, from August 2009, a voice-over at the top of the hour referred to the show as GMTV with ... . This continued until Penny Smith left on 4 June 2010, with the same presenters on air from 6:00–8:35/9:25 am. In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company 's 25% share. The show featured

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2730-472: The newly-rebranded ITV Breakfast launching new weekday breakfast programmes Daybreak and Lorraine on 6 September 2010. In March 2014, it was announced Daybreak had been axed amid poor ratings. The programme was replaced on Monday 28 April 2014 by Good Morning Britain , reprising the title of a previous ITV's early-morning programme. The Lorraine segment has not been affected by the changes. At weekends, ITV Breakfast would air children's programming,

2795-481: The programme GMTV did not exist. This was then split up into The Newshour and GMTV Today . This titling for the programmes remained until January 2009, when GMTV relaunched. The first presenters were: GMTV underwent a major revamp on 5 January 2009, reverting to its original title, and incorporating the GMTV Newshour into the show as well. The show returned with a new set and new onscreen graphics. For

2860-587: The same people; Craig Doyle & Paul 'Des' Ballard with a name change taking place on 25 September called Road Hog . The series finished on 26 April 1998, replaced by Diggit . ITV Breakfast ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited (previously known as GMTV Limited ) is the national ITV breakfast television licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. GMTV , as an on-screen brand name, ended on 3 September 2010, with

2925-543: The series was reduced to finish at 08.50 to allow Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to be shown. Wake Up in the Wild Room was a children's programme broadcast from 13 April 1996 to 7 March 1998 on Saturday mornings. Produced in partnership with Disney, it was presented by Dave Benson Phillips . The grand finale at the end of the show had a game where contests had to pick a number from the Big House (e.g. number 5

2990-479: The show between January and September 2010 included Lorraine giving a brief introduction describing what was coming up on the show, before discussing the main stories from the morning's newspapers with a male and female reviewer. The show's first guests tended to be interviewed next; however, some days there would be money-saving advice from Martin Lewis or a fashion feature from Mark Heyes in that slot. A news summary

3055-462: The slot had the presenters presenting links from the Action Station ' s 'space base'. Action Stations! featured characters Commander Action (David Kangas), Boogaloo (Serial #80064100) (Simon Fielding), Gribulous Bertnarg "Bert" Pimplewicks (Mike Rance) and Princess Akira, the ship's mechanic (Anna Singleton). These characters travelled the galaxy transmitting cartoons 'free to air' to

3120-478: The summer holidays Fiona Phillips , Emma Bunton and Kirsty Gallacher each presented her show for two weeks. Myleene Klass presented the final week of the show. Newshour was launched in March 1993, and was GMTV's weekday news-oriented breakfast programme, broadcasting for an hour from the start of GMTV's weekday broadcast at 6:00   am. From 21 February 1994 it was contracted out to Reuters , and by April

3185-458: The team, alongside Richard Orford, with Andrea Boardman continuing with inserts films. Disney Adventures returned on 6 May 1995 with Sally Gray, Jenny Powel, Jocelyn Barker and Yvette Fielding presenting instead of Andrea, continuing until October 1995. Disney Club Returned on 5 November 1995, with new presenters Craig Doyle , Jenny Powel and Sean Maguire. The last series from September 1997 became two separate Disney blocks, but presented by

3250-501: The viewing figures had increased from 200,000 to just over 1 million. The programme included national and international news stories, regional news, weather and newspaper reviews, plus various guests, and was designed to be more serious than the lighter and more tabloid GMTV Today programme which followed. From January 2009, the Newshour title was scrapped, and the programme was merged with GMTV Today to create one GMTV name again. The same presenters from Newshour continued to present

3315-548: The week for GMTV , Michael Underwood was also introduced as a presenter. In 2008 the show was replaced by The Richard Arnold Show in July, which aired for six weeks. After the show's run, Entertainment Today didn't return, and instead the main GMTV Today show was extended to 9:25   am every Friday. The Richard Arnold Show first aired in the summer of 2007, as a replacement for Entertainment Today whilst it took

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3380-503: Was Jack Stratton. Jack co-presented with Des and Fearne on both shows for a time, before becoming a solo presenter of pre-recorded inserts on the Sunday show. He was asked to leave the show due to end of contract, and in 2000 Fearne also left to concentrate on her other CITV series, the reins being handed over to Laura Jaye and Victoria Hickson . Des left the show in 2002 and GMTV relaunched the show as Diggin' It in January 2003, including

3445-435: Was a guest anchor in 2004 and 2005. She returned to Loose Women as a guest anchor in March 2009 and again in March 2010. In August 2010, she appeared as a panellist on the short-lived ITV chat show 3@Three . She took part in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2005, with professional partner Brendan Cole . The pair were voted out on Week 4 following several weeks of low scores. Phillips had also been in

3510-457: Was a panellist on BBC One's Question Time in June 2009. Phillips is a patron of the anti-racist organisation Hope Not Hate , which has the slogan "Celebrating Britain's diverse society". In August 2014, Phillips was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue . Phillips

3575-436: Was a window, number 9 was a roof) but would have to watch out for traps which could result with a pie being thrown in their face by resident pie thrower Gary The Ghost, who wore white ghost makeup and a milkman 's uniform. Gary also pied various celebrity interview guests, most notably Donna Air , who had uttered a word which had been deemed taboo for that episode's duration. The Disney Club started on 3 September 1989 and

3640-587: Was built around. GMTV came under criticism for extending the show's running time in early 1993. After just 3 months in April 1993, GMTV replaced Teen Win Lose Or Draw which ran from 8:50 to 9:25   am with a newly imported cartoon Darkwing Duck which ran under the Saturday Disney strand. It was said that GMTV were putting ratings and advertising revenues before educational values. In May 1995

3705-515: Was changed when Alastair left in 2001. In 2008, the programme was quietly axed and replaced with children's programming. Entertainment Today was GMTV's entertainment round-up show on Fridays, designed to replace LK Today at the end of the week. It aired at 8:40   am. The programme was broadcast for 45 minutes, and included interviews with actors/actresses from upcoming movies and music performances. Presented by Ben Shephard and Jenni Falconer originally, as Ben started to present more during

3770-493: Was decided that Entertainment Today would not return. Eat Your Words was a game show created by Clive Doig in which kids had to solve challenges linked to words and food. The series started on 12 February 1994 with Konnie Huq and Mark Speight . In 1995 Simon Parkin become the presenter and was joined by Julia Binsted. The series ended on 24 February 1996. Toonatik was the flagship children 's strand of GMTV (known as CITV at weekends). It began on 5 February 2005 and

3835-405: Was moved to 6:30 am–8:00 am. However, as part of the station's relaunch in April 1993, Eamonn Holmes moved to become the main anchor of the weekday GMTV programme with Mike Morris replacing him. It was reduced to a 60-minute slot from 7:00 am–8:00 am, from 25 April 1993. Sunday Best started to introduce more political aspects to the programme, and over time moved from being

3900-458: Was one of the owners of GMTV at the time. By September 1993 the series had moved back to 9:25 am, with Jenny Powell replacing Andrea Boardman. A new programme called Disney Adventures with Andrea Boardman, which filled the time slot instead. When the series returned on 4 September 1994, the series had once again moved back to broadcast during GMTV overlapped the 9:25 am cut off time, by starting at 8 am. Philippa Forrester joined

3965-573: Was presented by Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson . The strand aired on Saturdays and Sundays from 7:25 am until GMTV's closedown at 9:25 am. The original slot featured games, competitions and studio guests combined with the American imported cartoons. However, on 6 March 2010 it was reported that Toonattik and Action Stations! presenters Jamie and Anna would be made redundant, as part of ITV plc 's buyout of Disney's 25% share in GMTV. So on Sunday 9 May 2010, Jamie and Anna departed and from

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4030-407: Was produced by Scottish Television and Buena Vista International Television , and went out on Sundays at 9:25 am. The programme mainly broadcast from September – April, taking a spring and summer break. Original presenters In January 1993, the series was moved to also broadcast on GMTV and overlapped past 9:25 am cut off time. It continued to be produced by Scottish Television, which

4095-416: Was replaced by Anthea Turner in 1994, but she left in December 1996. From 1997, Fiona Phillips presented alongside Eamonn Holmes (Monday to Wednesday) and Andrew Castle and Kate Garraway (Thursday to Friday). In April 2005 when Holmes left, he was replaced by relief and Entertainment Today presenter, Ben Shephard . When GMTV relaunched in 2009, it merged with the Newshour with Today to try and

4160-421: Was shown at 9:00 am presented by Penny Smith or Helen Fospero , followed by a brief weather summary from Clare Nasir or Kirsty McCabe. The chef who was appearing that week then cooked the dish for the day in the GMTV kitchen, before the final guests made their appearance. The competition that ran on GMTV also appeared throughout the show. The programme was sponsored by Matalan and Actimel . For 2010,

4225-411: Was to leave her role as main anchor on GMTV for family reasons. She presented her final show on 18 December 2008. Phillips returned to GMTV in 2010 in its last series, guest presenting on GMTV with Lorraine . Since September 2010, she has regularly guest presented the ITV Breakfast programme Lorraine (successor of GMTV with Lorraine ). She voiced the character of Katie Current in

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