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List of GMTV programmes

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Source revisionSep 8, 2026
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The following details are for the programmes that GMTV (Good Morning Television) broadcast on ITV.

GMTV is the former breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 (New Year’s Day 1993) and finished on 3 September 2010, being replaced by ITV Breakfast.

GMTV

1993–2000

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 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 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.

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