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[soupie]

Those titles are so so similar to those original GMTV ones, which would have premiered about 10 weeks after these

[nwtv2003]

The not so flattering final 15 minutes of The Channel Four Daily from September 1992.

[W. Knight]

A fitting promo before News at Ten, 1989, glipsing at the involvement of local ITV (STV, Central and TSW namechecked) in bringing the news (from 0:26):
https://youtu.be/Ueh0QgAKr5I

[Inspector Sands]

I've seen that before and still don't quite understand what the regional companies were 'standing by' for.

[buster]

Didn't Midlands Today come from that space for the last few days of Pebble Mill, because the regular studio had been decommissioned or something similar?

I’ve a feeling it was the conservatory, which again was a Good Morning creation.

[Ben]

I've seen that before and still don't quite understand what the regional companies were 'standing by' for.

I guess Just something they could say that would sound like generic tv speak but also name check companies. I think their were other variants with names checked and different logos on the monitor stack.

[RDJ]

Didn't Midlands Today come from that space for the last few days of Pebble Mill, because the regular studio had been decommissioned or something similar?

I’ve a feeling it was the conservatory, which again was a Good Morning creation.

You’re right. The Good Morning set was constructed within the foyer area, the same where Pebble Mill at One was in the seventies and eighties. Midlands Today in the dying days of Pebble Mill was in the Conservatory which literally was just a backdrop of trees and a hedge.
The foyer had more of a view of Pebble Mill Road in Edgbaston, a side road off the main Pershore and Bristol Roads, hence why you can see the odd car going past. Neither is a very aspiring view however, probably why the set update with larger windows generally filled the view with pot plants mostly.

[Hatton Cross]

The foyer had more of a view of Pebble Mill Road in Edgbaston, a side road off the main Pershore and Bristol Roads, hence why you can see the odd car going past.

And the Midland Red buses on the 145 route. Which is why in the traffic office at Midland Red in Redditch, they had a TV with Pebble Mill At One on, every weekday around 1.20 to make sure the driver was running on time..

[Mike]

Didn't Midlands Today come from that space for the last few days of Pebble Mill, because the regular studio had been decommissioned or something similar?

As others have said the conservatory in the courtyard at Pebble Mill is where Midlands Today came from whenever they had a refit or when they eventually left the site.

The Good Morning set was in the foyer, but with the inclusion of a bay window. It later became the Riverside health centre nurse's room when Doctors started (which is why the bay window was retained, despite only being a temporary planning application).


the right of these shots was where the bay window/set for GM was.
from the air you can just about see the black trim to the bay window in this shot


The window was effectively a large shop front style, sheet glass construction that protruded from the building - any set dressing was inside of it.

Apparently before Doctors went into production they were looking for a space to strike the set, which was originally meant to be wholly within Studio A, the Good Morning set was left standing (less props) after it went off the air and there was a battle to get it taken down.

[James2001]

I'm presuming the "Building society" signs (which are different in each photo) were something to do with Doctors?

[Mike]

I'm presuming the "Building society" signs (which are different in each photo) were something to do with Doctors?

Yes, I think it was meant to make it look like a wider parade of shops/units.

[Steve Williams]

The not so flattering final 15 minutes of The Channel Four Daily from September 1992.

Well, this is great fun. I used to watch The Channel Four Daily off and on for the first two years, and then every day for the last eighteen months. This was because on the first day of the school summer holidays in 1991 I decided that I would take the opportunity of all my spare time to start regularly watching breakfast TV (I was a great kid) and plumped for the Daily, although it was pretty repetitive if you watched it for long periods and so I'd usually switch over to Breakfast News after 8am.

When I went back to school I still watched it, I watched Early Bird until that ended at Christmas 1991 and was replaced by cartoons with no additional presentation, presumably they'd run out of money, and I also enjoyed Box Office because it used to talk about telly a lot. I would usually watch it at 6.45 (and you wonder why it ended when you think how many people would be interested in hearing discussions about arts council funding at 6.45 in the morning), but if I'd overslept I'd have to watch it at 7.45 and dart through getting ready for school. I used to like Joanna Kaye who's presenting there, and because I watched it every day I was one of the few kids in school aware of the work of Sheridan Morley, Kim Newman and Mark Steyn, who has since gone on to have a, cough, interesting career.

By the end there was a surprising amount of cartoons on the programme, which sat rather awkwardly with the discussion of stock market "activity" in the rest of the show. There was a full-length cartoon at 6am, another one shown twice at 7.35 and 8.35 and another at 9.15. Actually the start of the show was a bit odd, although the 6am cartoon was billed in the Radio Times as being part of the Daily it would be introduced by a C4 announcer over the ident, then there'd be an ad break and Business Daily would start immediately after, with no ident, and its own titles, and then at 6.30 the Daily would start properly. The Daily theme is brilliant but I'm assuming the daft widdly-widdly-widdly jingle going in and out of the break wasn't part of the original suite of music.

I'd seen the final part of that show before but nice to see a bit more of it. Caroline Righton, who's doing the weather there, had at the time achieved a record that will presumably never be broken of having presented every single breakfast show on TV at the time, having also presented Breakfast Time, TV-am and Sky News Sunrise, plus read the news at breakfast time on BSB as well I think. Roy Slaven, on the phone there, is half of Roy and HG who a few years later appeared on Ben Elton's show (I can never hear their name without hearing it is his voice) and there are some other interesting names in the Big Long List Of Credits. I can't remember ever seeing Alan Davies on it, mind.

Anyway, I missed this at the time because I'd gone to school, but I was quite upset about the Channel Four Daily ending. Then The Big Breakfast started on the Monday and I'd forgotten about it after about five minutes.

[nwtv2003]

Well, it’s just as unique as described, Coronation Street from Christmas Day 1991 when The Queen’s Christmas message was included within the broadcast. Maybe the only time the speech went through Granada rather than Thames/LWT?

https://youtu.be/gnvGXac9aEE

[soupie]

So random isn’t it? This was heavily trailled for weeks and weeks in the papers, and was done so that ITV would increase its audience for the Queen’s speech (which BBC One had dominated and still does). I think that was the first time ever there had been two episodes of Corrie on the same day.

[James2001]

Was the first time there was an episode longer than 30 minutes as well, I think.

Was interesting the way the episode was handled when Granada Plus and ITV3 repeated it- Granada Plus swapped the two scenes immediately preceeding the speech around (so the scene with Alma and Mike in the cafe came after we saw Alf put the TV on) and put an advert break, whereas ITV3 left those scenes in order, but cut out the scene of Alf turning the TV off afterwards, and didn't add an extra advert break. The Granada Plus version also had a different piece of music on the TV rather than the ITV 1989 generic music-- though the ITV3 showing kept it.

The ITV3 showing was also a mess as they somehow managed to skip the 23rd December episode, and show the two Christmas day episodes in the wrong order!