The Flashback : TV for the Morning Crowd

The FlashBack UK
  Our Flashback series here on Joshuaonline continues but this time we go across the pond , mostly because we at Flashback want to spread your wonder on the world of Television , or we may be a bit mad can't tell.
 So , Morning Television or the as the Brits call it Breakfast Television but unlike here in America it hasn't run that long compared.  1983 was the year The UK as a whole found a new concept of  Television before 9AM at least.
  First , January 17th 1983 , the BBC launched their morning show "Breakfast Time" on BBC1 , now they were the first morning national show in Britain beating rivals ITV.  What was this morning show like?
Here's a youtube video of it by Transdiffision


  About 1:54 into the video is when the real action happens.  First the theme music is great very morning, then again I would hope for a morning show to sound morning like.  At 3:11 in you see the set, it looks cozy, and there are lots of people there very active. At 3:13 you see one of the hosts (presenters) his name is Frank Bough  and he welcomes us to the show.
 The time was Mondays-Fridays  6:30-9AM  and BBC's morning show was light format  and one thing I like is that hosts seem causal and not  that scary over chipper you get in our American morning shows.  Watch the 13 minute video , we'll wait for you.

Ok now we jump a head to February 1st 1983 , and BBC1 had a competitor called ITV (still do) , and they launched their new breakfast service. 3 things you should know , From the 1950's to 2000's  ITV was made up of different companies  covering a region eg: in The North East  their ITV company was Tyne Tees Television. The Morning was contracted to a new company to provide a national breakfast service to air on the ITV network. The name was called TV-AM.

Here's the video of their first day again From Transdiffusion

   TV-AM , was like we said was a channel on a channel , so it had programms of it's own to fill it's time. Before we get to the video , there is something you need to know about TV AM , it's a cause of mis judging.  When it was announced that TV AM was going to start in 1983 , the BBC decided they had to hurry up and get a morning program, (Hence Breakfast Time). The BBC thought that ITV's new breakfast was going to light and fun so the BBC's plan was to make a morning program that was light and fun. While TV AM thought the BBC's morning show was going to be 2 people in suits behind a desk and a morning version of an evening news high brow show.  So TV AM went High Brow to compete. When the BBC announced the date , TV-AM got to move up theirs. But the problem was TV AM thought wrong about Breakfast time's format.
   Back to the video,  The First thing you hear is TV AM's  music very nice isn't it? I really do like it.
Around 2:20 you see the beginning of the first broadcast.Just look at those titles.  You see their set around 2:51 ,at 2:53 guy in a suit, David Frost. They explain the shows for a bit. At 5:39 in the video you see the opener for Daybreak , TV-AM's news show.  Just in case you didn't know it was a news show they did it in a news room and more guys in suits.  Stay tuned you will an interesting for a clock radio, TV,  tape player and more now that's awesome!  At 10:10 Daybreak ends and now it's time for "Good Morning Britain" which starts at 10:37, those titles are impressive and the music is very original.  And the clock Appears for the first time.

CNN adds Cuomo

CNN  Cable News 

    CNN has made an announcement  that Current ABC News "20/20" co-host , Chris Cuomo is to join.  He was the news anchor on "Good Morning America" until 2009 . This is the 2nd ABC News Anchor/Reporter to leave after Jake Tapper left to CNN last month, he will be hosting a new show in the afternoons.
  According to  a memo to staff from Jeff Zucker  on TV Newser it seems aht Cuomo will be doing something in the mornings.

I want to share some exciting news with you.
This morning we are announcing that Chris Cuomo is joining CNN.
Chris will be an anchor on a new morning show we are going to develop for CNN. He will also be an important part of our event news coverage across the network. Chris has deep experience in both roles, most recently at ABC News, and he’s one of the smartest, most engaging journalists in television news. I’m pleased that he’s joining us and really looking forward to working with him at CNN. The press release with the news follows. Thanks.
JEFF

  read more here  

      For now , it is unknown weather he will be a co-host with current  7-9AMET , host Soledad O'Brien  or if she will be moved to a different time. If it's the latter it would the 2nd time she would  have lost a morning slot on CNN.
       But there is more to the story, current ABC World News weekend anchor  David Muir  is set to become the next co-host of "20/20"  , of course staying as the weekend anchor of "World News". Read more about that here.
 Meanwhile ... back at CNN,  James Carville, his wife Mary Matalin , who have been on CNN for a while  are leaving the network.  Erick Erickson , another contributor, is leaving he will be  joining Fox News Channel , while  Mark Whitaker  a CNN executive VP and managing editor  is leaving.

Volkswagen Releases it's new SuperBowl Commercial

TV Events

  Volkswagen has decide to preview their commercial before the SuperBowl  it's called "Get Happy" and you will see why.
Watch it below

The Joshuaonline News Hot list 1/28//2013

TV and the Media 

1. Who are the winners of the Screen Actors Guild Awards , last night ?
 "Downton Abbey"  won Outstanding preformance by an ensemble cast in a drama
 you can find rest of the right here.




2.  ABC's Barbra Walters has the chicken pox ,she was hospitalized  after falling down at an inauguration even last weekend. read more here 

3. The NewYork Post  is reporting that Ann Curry has been banned by NBC from doing live interviews relegated to taped ones. This comes after speculation that the former "Today" host is wanting to leave the Network.  read more here 

4.A newspaper reality show?  NBC is looking.  read more here 

5. Tucker Carlson , Mediaite interviews the former CNN and MSNBC host and currently the owner of the DailyCaller  find out what he thinks of  the current state of cable news.  read more here

All My Children and One life to live coming spring

All My Children One Life to Live Soaps

       Here at Joshuaonline we've been keeping track of  'One Life to live' and 'All My Children' as you know it's returning online but now have more information. 
  Prospect park , the group who bought the rights to the soaps , have announced that Hulu and I-Tunes as well as their own  The Online Network will also  have  the programs in their libraries.  The time has been cut  30 minutes but still  daily instead of 1 hour as they were on TV ( but maybe less commercials and worries about the news cutting them off) , the date is unknown  all we know as of this writing is that it will be Spring (so anytime before June).
We'll keep you updated  as always.  





Related: 
 Who's returning to "All My Children" and "One life to live"?    (ew.com) 

The Hot TV List 1/23/2012

THE TV LIST 
  
1. Has "Ben and Kate"  been cancelled? 
   The Fox comedy that premiered this season has now been apparently pulled from the line up.  
It will be replaced by a repeat of lead-in "Rasing Hope" 
The Huffington Post has more here

2. Doctor Who 
     The American announcement date has been shown as March 30th for the Doctor.  AT 8PMET On BBC America.  
 watch the trailer here

The Flashback: Welcome To TV Headline News

THE FLASHBACK 

  Welcome to something new here on Joshuaonline , we talk alot about TV in the current and the future but not much into the past  so that's something we will be doing here in something generically named "The FlashBack". 

    Ah yes  welcome to Television, many times when a  New Year is starting why not launch a new channel at the same time , gives you an easy to remember birthday. January 1st. 

   On January 1st 1982 , a new news channel was launched by Ted Turner, called CNN2.  It was CNN's sister channel  that was focused on getting you headlines in 30 minutes for those who didn't want a full hour on CNN. It's Name was changed to CNN Headline News  (sometimes refereed as Headline News). The Format lasted until 2005 when primetime was modified and daytime later on by 2008 it was renamed HLN.  

   But here on  "THE FLASH BACK" just take a look  at the first few minutes.

3 TV Hotlist stories you may want to know for 1/22/2012

Straight Forward  ON THE TV


    1.    Here at Joshuaonline we have been keeping track of what's happening to the soaps  "One Life to Live" and "All My Children.   The fact they are coming back  as online shows  but who's returning to them.  EW.com has the details  of who so far is returning.
 Click here to read more    
Joshuaonline will of course update you when we find out  about the soaps.

  2.  "Don't Trust the B--- in Apt 23"  has been removed from ABC's primetime line up the comedy has been getting some low ratings , but  is the show canceled?  Well that ABC has not said yet.
You can read more here from EW.com 
And for now it will be replaced by a second episode of "Happy Endings" on ABC


3.  "The Following" Fox's new drama premiered last night  and did pretty well.
 read more here from the Huffington Post  
"The Following" airs Mondays 9/8c on FOX