In spring 1993, shortly after 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.
In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company's 25% share.
In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company's 25% share.
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.
The same presenters from Newshour continued to present 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.
From 1997, Fiona Phillips presented alongside Eamonn Holmes (Monday to Wednesday) and Andrew Castle and Kate Garraway (Thursday to Friday).
When GMTV relaunched in 2009, it merged with the Newshour with Today to try and a recreate a more news-based content throughout the entirety of the show and create consistency.
These included the departure of Fiona Phillips and Andrea McLean, who were replaced by Emma Crosby and Kirsty McCabe.
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.
Anne Davies, left the programme in January 1994 when the format started to change to increase the amount of current affairs.
The Richard Arnold Show first aired in the summer of 2007, as a replacement for Entertainment Today whilst it took a six-week break.
The original slot featured games, competitions and studio guests combined with the American imported cartoons.
presenters Jamie and Anna would be made redundant,[25] as part of ITV plc's buyout of Disney's 25% share in GMTV.
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).
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.
Laura and Victoria also left and were replaced with Liam Dolan (previously a presenter on CBBC) and Abbie Pethullis, with voiceovers from Phil Gallagher.
Liam Dolan was seen sending a Happy Birthday message to CITV on 3 January 2003 on behalf of the Diggin'It team.
Wake Up in the Wild Room was a children's programme broadcast from 13 April 1996 to 7 March 1998 on Saturday mornings.
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.
Original presenters In January 1993, the series was moved to also broadcast on GMTV and overlapped past 9:25 am cut off time.
Philippa Forrester joined 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 cartoon series that were shown were mainly those that featured such action animated programmes as He-Man, Spider-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
It featured cartoons and programmes such as Count Duckula, Roobarb, The Shoe People, King Rollo, Towser, Victor & Maria James the Cat, Mio Mao, Barbapapa, Rosie and Jim, Mr Men, Ric the Raven, My Little Pony, The Wombles, Gran, Barney & Friends, The Glo Friends, MoonDreamers, Potato Head Kids, Fred Basset, Rainbow Brite and the Color Kids and Muppet Babies.
The Fluffy Club was GMTV's pre-school programming slot which aired every Monday-Friday on the CITV channel between 8:40 am and 9:25 am as part of GMTV2 and every Saturday and Sunday from 6:00 am to 7:25 am on ITV.
The series was also broadcast outwith GMTV, on Scottish and Grampian Television albeit in Gaelic, and was renamed "Granaidh Bananaidh".
A spin off of Our House about two microscopic, pea eating, bits of fluff named Riff (who is orange, tall, and slightly dim-witted) and Raff (who is purple, short, and is smart) who hide in Grannie Banannie's bag.
The block was discontinued in mid-2003 with all the preschool programs being branded under "GMTV Kids" which logo holds the Disney Mickey Mouse text font.
Wakey!, Toonattik ran the pre-school slot for the first half of 2005 with pre-recorded voiceovers with Jamie and Anna taking over from 07:25.