Mike Morris (TV Presenter)
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Mike Morris is a British television presenter, perhaps best known as a co-host of Good Morning Britain
on the breakfast television station TV-am
on the ITV Network.
Mike was with TV-am from its inception in 1983. He began as the station's sports reporter, a job he held from 1983 to 1987, and then moved on to become a co-presenter on Good Morning Britain. From 1987 until the channel's closure at the end of 1992, he presented alongside Anne Diamond
, Kathy Rochford, Kathryn Holloway
, Kathy Tayler
, Linda Mitchell, Maya Even
and Lorraine Kelly
.
Following the announcement that TV-am would cease broadcasting on December 31, 1992 and be replaced by GMTV
the following day, Mike stated that he was "gutted", but that "it will be nice not to have to get up so early". When GMTV took to the air in January 1993, the daily tabloid newspaper, The Sun
reported that a female viewer had called the show and asked "where is that Mike Morris?". Bosses at GMTV were quoted as saying "We regard this as a tribute to Mike and all the work he did at TV-am". He later made a brief return to breakfast television, where he presented GMTV's Sunday show "Sunday Best" during 1994.
After leaving GMTV, Mike continued to work for the ITV network, presenting on the Yorkshire Television
news programme Calendar
from 1996 to 2002.
As of 2007, Mike works for a company called Network Films.
Good Morning Britain
Good Morning Britain was TV-am's flagship breakfast television show throughout TV-am's time on air, broadcasting five days a week, initially from 7am until 9am. By 1985 the programme started at the earlier time of 6.15am and by 1988 the programme started at 6am. It had many different presenters...
on the breakfast television station TV-am
TV-am
TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992. It made history by being the first national operator of a commercial television franchise at breakfast-time , and broadcast every day of the week for most or all of the period...
on the ITV Network.
Mike was with TV-am from its inception in 1983. He began as the station's sports reporter, a job he held from 1983 to 1987, and then moved on to become a co-presenter on Good Morning Britain. From 1987 until the channel's closure at the end of 1992, he presented alongside Anne Diamond
Anne Diamond
Anne Margaret Diamond is an English radio and television presenter and journalist. She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and the similarly titled Good Morning... with Anne and Nick for BBC1, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter...
, Kathy Rochford, Kathryn Holloway
Kathryn Holloway
Kathryn Holloway is a Canadian political activist, journalist, and entrepreneur, best known for her work in the Canadian Green and Ontario Liberal parties, and for her private and public-sector work on climate change, participatory democracy, and free speech.She is currently Executive Director of...
, Kathy Tayler
Kathy Tayler
Kathy Tayler, born 23 March 1960, is a UK TV presenter and former champion modern pentathlete.- Athletics:Kathy won the women's modern pentathlon World Cup in 1979 at the age of 19. She was a member of the Great Britain modern pentathlon team that twice won gold at the World Athletics...
, Linda Mitchell, Maya Even
Maya Even
Dr Maya Even , is a Canadian born British based University lecturer, journalist and television presenter.Born in Canada, and educated at McGill University, Montreal, and St Anthony's College, University of Oxford where she first came to in 1979 and completed a doctoral thesis entitled The Evolution...
and Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish television presenter, journalist and actress, best known as a presenter for TV-am, and later GMTV and ITV Breakfast, on Lorraine.-Early life:...
.
Following the announcement that TV-am would cease broadcasting on December 31, 1992 and be replaced by GMTV
GMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...
the following day, Mike stated that he was "gutted", but that "it will be nice not to have to get up so early". When GMTV took to the air in January 1993, the daily tabloid newspaper, The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)
The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
reported that a female viewer had called the show and asked "where is that Mike Morris?". Bosses at GMTV were quoted as saying "We regard this as a tribute to Mike and all the work he did at TV-am". He later made a brief return to breakfast television, where he presented GMTV's Sunday show "Sunday Best" during 1994.
After leaving GMTV, Mike continued to work for the ITV network, presenting on the Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
news programme Calendar
Calendar (News)
Calendar is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Yorkshire at its studios in Leeds, serving Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and parts of the North Midlands and North West Norfolk...
from 1996 to 2002.
As of 2007, Mike works for a company called Network Films.