Good Morning Australia (1992 TV program)

Good Morning Australia
Also known as
  • The Morning Show (1992)
  • GMA with Bert Newton
Genre Talk show
Variety show
Presented by Bert Newton
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 14
No. of episodes 3,213
Production
Production location(s) Melbourne, Victoria
Running time 120–150 mins (inc. ads)
Release
Original network Network Ten
Picture format 4:3 PAL (1992–2000)
16:9 576i (SDTV) (2001–2005)
16:9 1080i (HDTV) (2003–2005)
Audio format Stereo
Original release 20 January 1992 – 16 December 2005
Chronology
Preceded by Til Ten (1989–1991)
Followed by 9am with David & Kim (2006–2009)

Good Morning Australia (or GMA), also known as The Morning Show and GMA With Bert Newton, is a long-running Australian morning television variety program hosted by Bert Newton on Network Ten.[1] The program aired from 9:00am – 11:00am (9:00am – 11:30am for most of its run) five days a week, and from 1994 to 2000 and August – December 2005, the show was a lead in to the 11:30 News.

Program history

The program began on 20 January 1992 with the title The Morning Show, changing its name on 1 February 1993 to Good Morning Australia, after the breakfast news program with the same name on the same network had ended in December 1992. For most of 1992, the show was produced from Ten's Nunawading Studios, from 1993 following the changing of the name to Good Morning Australia (aka GMA with Bert Newton), the show moved to Network Tens South Yarra studios. The show featured numerous guests (mostly singers and actors) but also featured segments such as cooking, crafts, gardening and parenting, just to name a few. Most of the time, the off-camera crew acted as the studio audience, but from mid 2005, the public would be invited on Fridays to view the show in person. Until 2002, GMA was Australia's first morning talk program until October of that year, when the Nine Network launched Mornings with Kerri Anne. There was a segment called In Bed with Bert, where four of his regulars answer questions that Newton reads. The questions were sent from viewers at home. Bert Newton's sign off at the end of each program was: We'll see you tomorrow (Monday on Friday's show) morning at 9:00. Originally the program was live to air on Mondays and Tuesdays, and live to tape on Wednesday – Fridays, from mid 2004 onwards, the show was live to air five days a week to compete with Mornings with Kerri Anne. In October 2005, Network Ten announced that GMA would be cancelled at the end of the year after a fourteen-year run. Following this announcement and after months of speculation, Bert Newton decided to leave Ten and return to the Nine Network.[2][3] The final live edition of Good Morning Australia aired Friday 16 December 2005, and included guest appearances by former GMA Regular Susie Elelman and showbiz legend Maria Venuti. The following week, GMA switched to summer mode, with the summer show airing from 19 December 2005. The summer series of Good Morning Australia ended on 27 January 2006, a week before the premiere of 9am with David and Kim.

John Foreman, musical director on GMA

The show featured a number of advertorial presenters, including Moira McLean[4] (1992–2005), Susie Elelman[5] (1993–1999), Ed Phillips (2000 – May 2005), Shannon Watts (September 2005 – December 2005) and Marianne van Dorslar (199?–2005).[6] The Advertorials were for products from Danoz Direct, Guthy Renker and Global Shop Direct.

Musical direction and singers

John Foreman was the program's musical director from the program's inception in 1992[7] for GMA until his retirement in 2004, when Mark Amato was appointed as his replacement for the final two years.[8] Some of the singers that have performed on the show include:

Regular segment contributors and fill-in hosts

The program had many regular contributors to various topical segments. Robert Mascara, the floor manager and assistant director for the program's entire run, appeared as "Belvedere", the official food taste tester during the cooking segments.[9]Jane Edmondson and Karen Moregold did the gardening and astrology segments respectively.

Patti Newton Various segments
Lauren Newton Reporter
Iain Hewitson Cooking
Elizabeth Chong Cooking
Ken James Cooking
Dorinda Hafner Cooking
Gabriel Gaté Cooking
Tonia Todman Crafts
John-Michael Howson Celebrity & Hollywood Gossip
Nicky Buckley Parenting
Paul Bongiorno Politics
Julie Summerfield Pets
Jemma Gawned Beauty
Virginia Hey Beauty
Colette Mann Gadgets
Ann-Maree Biggar Gadgets & DVD Reviews
Val Jellay Movie Reviews
Shane Bourne DVD Reviews
Axle Whitehead Music Reviews
Robert Mascara Belvedere
Bruce Mansfield Collectibles
Philip Brady Nostalgia
Yves Hernot Antiques valuation & Art

Shannon Watts joined GMA in May 2005 replacing Ed Phillips who went on to host Temptation for the Nine Network. Shannon was soon put out in the field hosting segments from the AFL Grand Final, the Australian Grand Prix and the Gold Coast Indy 300. Not long after, Shannon was appointed as an advertorial presenter on GMA. Shannon did over 160 episodes on Good Morning Australia. Shannon stayed with GMA until the show's end and went on to be a reporter on the replacement show 9am with David & Kim. A number of people have filled in for Newton over the years when he was either ill or on leave. The people that have filled in for him include:

Kerri Anne Kennerley (1995) Before Monday – Friday, Midday and Mornings with Kerri-Anne

Maggie Tabberer (1998–99)

Rove McManus(2004– Friday 10th June 05) Host of Rove Live

Daniel McPherson (Monday 13th June 2005) Actor and Dancing with the Stars host

Mark Holden (Tuesday 14th June 2005) Judge on Australian Idol

Stephen Quartermain (Wednesday 15th June 2005) Presenter of Ten Eyewitness News Melbourne

Gretel Killeen(Thursday 16th June 2005) Host of Big Brother

The program's former title The Morning Show was adopted by a rival show on the Seven Network.

The successor to GMA was 9am with David & Kim, which had a similar format, however 9am was not filmed in front of the live studio audience.[10] Prior to Bert Newton's era, Ten Melbourne ran a similar show Good Morning Melbourne, hosted by Roy Hampson and Annette Allison. During Hampson's long run, the program had a number of different titles, such as The Roy Hampson Show and Roundabout.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Back to Bert, Brian Courtis, The Age, 30 May 2002. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Bert Newton says future unclear, The Age, 28 October 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Goodbye Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  4. ↑ About Us: Here's Moira, Here's Moira website. Accessed 30 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Film & TV Tutors: Susie Elelman, Screenwise website. Accessed 30 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Speaker Profile: Marianne van Dorslar, Saxton website. Accessed 30 April 2017.
  7. ↑ On the Couch with John Foreman, Arts Review, 16 December 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  8. ↑ About Mark, Mark Amato website. Accessed 30 April 2017.
  9. ↑ Where are they now?: Belvedere from Good Morning Australia, news.com.au, 21 May 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  10. ↑ Ten pins daytime hopes on 9am, Robert Fidgeon, Herald Sun via Vogue Australia website, 12 January 2006. Accessed 30 April 2017.
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