‘The GMB has opened a new door for me’
8 hours ago The Independent
My hosting stint is proof that you are never too old to do something different. One of the things that attracted me was having to brush up on topics that take me a bit out of my comfort zone. Many years ago, as a young general news reporter, I covered the early days of TV-am. It was a huge story for tabloids and broadsheets alike. For the broadsheets, independent morning news TV represented a major shake up in the media and business ecosystem busy transforming itself into something unrecognisable from the media world we grew up in. For tabloids like The Mirror, we had a daily diet of stories about some of the biggest names in TV the “Big Five” presenters David Frost, Michael Parkinson, Anna Ford, Robert Kee and Angela Rippon.
ITV
The schedules have also been cleared over on ITV, with the rest of Friday looking as follows.
12.05pm: ITV News: Death of the Duke of Edinburgh
5pm: Prince Philip: Duke of Edinburgh
James Mates presents a documentary looking at the life of the Prince.
6pm: ITV Evening News
Julie Etchingham and Phillip Schofield present a programme remembering the Prince.
9pm: Prince Philip: A Royal Life
ITV News Royal Editor Chris Ship marks the most significant moments in Prince Philip s life and finds out how the son of a Danish prince ended up marrying The Queen.
10pm: ITV News at Ten