Good Morning Britain

Problem with the clock at around 6:15am - disappeared then the old logo & clock appeared, then that and the news ticker disappeared until 6:19am.

Right. Better inform Ofcom about this. Clear cut case to look at franchise removal if you ask me.


Can we lock this thread please?
.. No one cares about disappearing clocks and tickers.

It's like the office bore who starts everything "that's interesting.." and within 2.8 seconds of him speaking, it's nothing more than dull and boring trivia..

Speak for yourself... I'd maybe watch it on a regular basis if they counteracted Piers Morgan saying something stupid with a technical failure. Or just outright replaced him with Dick Madeley.

Disappearing clooks are far more interesting than the number of seconds over the viewer allocated TOTH duration Piers has managed to run to each day.

However, without pictures, they're pretty worthless.

A colleague at work was complaining today how the local news insert used to be at 6:10 and these days it's well past 6:25 before it comes on.

Quite.

If I'm walking out of my house any later than about 06:15 (maybe as late as 06:17, at an absolute push), then I will miss my bus to get to work on time. So, if I happened to be absolutely relying on the GMB regional bulletin for any reason (which I'm thankfully not) then it often being woefully late would be utterly useless to me. And obviously the first BBC Breakfast regional bulletin is also too late for my departure time.

If there is anyone out there with a similar morning schedule to mine, but who is not savvy with modern alternatives (such as smartphone apps etc), then they may well be genuinely relying on getting that 06:10 regional travel/weather on time. GMB's chronic inability to even remotely adhere to its own supposed timings, therefore may well be letting down any such viewers.

They ought to try a fixed opt-out at quarter past where they go to the regions no matter what. Don’t This Morning have a similar thing for the weather at 11:05? The weather opt-out happens whether the presenters have wrapped up that feature or not.

It is your responsibility to get to work on time, not Piers Morgans.

But breakfast television is meant to be a convenience rather than a hindrance to the morning run surely?

Considering there is radio, travel apps etc, there's absolutely no reason to rely on the rather vague regional travel bulletins on GMB.

Well that's a great slogan: "watch Good Morning Britain, there's absolutely no reason to rely on it".