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Good Morning Britain betting odds slashed....
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I read bookies have slashed the odds for this GMB surviving on its diet of celeb gossip & competitions.
Caught some of this today, what utter bilge and the falseness of the presenters is their for all to see like Ryan Clarks teeth. I wonder if BetFair have considered sponsoring the programme and giving the odds for its survival at each break.
Caught some of this today, what utter bilge and the falseness of the presenters is their for all to see like Ryan Clarks teeth. I wonder if BetFair have considered sponsoring the programme and giving the odds for its survival at each break.
Bookmaker Coral has slashed the odds on Good Morning Britain getting axed this year into 3-1 from 20-1, as ratings continue to slump.
And on top of this, Reid is 12-1 from 16-1 to get sacked, while Lorraine Kelly is 10-1 to replace her and Aled Jones is 14-1 to re-join the line-up.
"The future of Good Morning Britain is looking increasingly uncertain, leading to a betting frenzy on ITV pulling the plug," said Coral's Nicola McGeady.
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I can't see any of those situations happening, at least not this year. The bookmakers would make a lot of money taking those bets, assuming anyone in real life would actually care in the first place
I still think ITV may as well give up on breakfast. Lobby Ofcom to cave in like they always do and show a diet of ITV 2 repeats in that slot. It couldn't do any worse.
Look out overpaid TV stars - here is the news... with an ANDROID! World's first robotic broadcasters are so lifelike they can read reports without stumbling
Or perhaps they are already using them, would any notice?
There’s often talk of them taking a different approach at breakfast and going for a more ‘Big Breakfast’ light entertainment style show instead of the news/showbiz format they’ve been using for years, and losing to the BBC with for years.
However there are a few problems with this, first I’m fairly sure it would require Ofcom’s authorisation to move away from a news format, and secondly multiple attempts have been made to make a ‘Big Breakfast’ style show and they’ve all failed. I’m not sure it’s success can be recreated.
To be honest, such a move would be a huge risk for ITV, but maybe it might be their saviour. As has been said, their current constant revamp of a news/showbiz format just isn’t working.
Channel 4 must be very happy right now watching ITV put more and more money into breakfast for it to continuously fail. They get fairly decent ratings, all for the low cost of some US sitcom repeats.
Kind of you to remember me Andy but in the real world some of us have to work.GMB will end in tears sometime next year and ITV will replace it with omnibus editions of their soaps after taking senior OFCOM suits out for a jolly good lunch and convincing them there is no need for a news-type breakfast show on ITV as there are ample alternatives on other channels, particularly the BBC.
So have they slashed the odds on the programme surviving, or on the programme being axed? These two statements are contradictory.
It will always be the same as long as they target hassled mums. After all, they're bringing in the audience...
on another note I remember TVam or GMTV done shows outside in the summer. I think that would be great if they did something similar?
I can't see any of the presenters being sacked either, Susanna was on BBC Breakfast, Kate & Ben were on GMTV and Charlotte on Sunrise. All have been successful and if any presenter combination can make a breakfast show work, this is it.
Bringing back the GMTV brand does seem like the answer to at least stop the bleeding, but in reality its would be way too much of a backward step for ITV, a total humiliation, for them, which would effect how people view the channel over all.
I dont know what else ITV can air in that slot, C5 has kids TV, BBC has the successful Breakfast, and C4 repeats US sitcoms, something ITV would not get away with.
Although the dip in ratings since GMB took over suggests that they are not bringing in as many of those hassled mums as they did previously under Daybreak.
Very true but the producers of the programme don't seem to be listening.
Pathetic? When thats what they're doing?
Bringing GMTV back, now that's pathetic.
It meant another three hours of airtime a day where ITV could place advertising, nothing wrong with that as it is a commercial organisation. The US had had breakfast TV since NBC's Today began in 1952 for the same reason. One of the early co-presenters was a chimpanzee called Fred J. Muggs - GMB producers please note.The BBC mounted a breakfast news programme in 1982 during the Falklands War and there were a number of other experiments including televising a BBC Radio Scotland breakfast programme and YTV providing a breakfast version of Calendar.
the problem I have with the programme is the advert interruptions.
Yes the BBC repeat stuff over and over but that is the nature of the programme as people drop in and out at that time of the day.
At this time of the day the TV is on in the background for the latest over night news and weather while breakfast is being made,washing/shaving and generaly getting set for the day ahead.
I don't really take any notice of who is presenting from the sofa.........
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