Good Morning Australia (or GMA) from Network Ten, started out in 1981 as a 7:00 to 9:00 breakfast tv news entertainment show and continued from 1993 as a two-hour long weekday chat show until 2005. The successor to the later edition is 9am with David and Kim. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australias three commercial television networks, available in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australias three commercial television networks, available in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia. ... David and Kim on the set of 9am 9am With David and Kim is an Australian morning show which premiered from Monday 30th January 2006 on Network Ten. ...

History

Breakfast TV

Good Morning Australia started out breakfast television program broadcast by Ten News with the 7:00 to 9:00 timeslot. It debuted in March 1981 with Gordon Elliott and Sue Kellaway co-hosting. Kellaway departed shortly after the program began and was replaced by Kerri-Anne Kennerly, who stayed with the program until the end of 1991 when she was replaced by Sandra Sully, Joy Smithers and then Sandra Sully again. Breakfast television (UK) or morning show (U.S.) is a type of news and entertainment television program, broadcast live in the morning (typically between 6:00am and 9:00am). ... Ten News is the name of Australian television Network Tens news service. ... Gordon Elliott (Born September 30, 1956) is a reporter and actor. ... Sue Kellaway is a former Australian television Journalist. ... Kerri-Anne has admitted to slight eye surgery Australian showbizs most famous and lovable successful failure, Kerri-anne Kennerly has an inimicable television style that could be described as a very individual talent. Having hosted a string of failures including Midday with Kerri-Anne(90s) and the original... Sandra Sully is a songwriter who co-wrote Bobby Womacks If You Think Youre Lonely Now. Years later, she would be credited as a co-writer of Mariah Careys We Belong Together, when Mariah would resing portions of If Youre Think Youre Lonely Now... Joy Smithers (born 15 July 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her television work. ...

The male co-host position of GMA was filled by Tim Webster, Mike Gibson, Terry Willessee, Mike Hammond, Tim Webster again and Ron Wilson. In 1992 GMA was moved to the 6:30 to 8:30 timeslot when Bert Newton began The Morning Show. GMA was cancelled at the end of 1992. This article is a stub. ... Cameron Michael Henderson (Mike) Gibson (born 3 December 1942 in Belfast) is a former Irish rugby union footballer. ... Ron Wilson is the male nightly TEN-10 television news anchor in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...

In this era the programme was im competition with the identical in format Today from Channel Nine, which commenced 28 June 1982, starring Sue Kellaway, the initial female host of the Ten-show. She was to remain with Nine for about three years. The Today team with in the majority of years Liz Hayes as female lead and co-hosts George Negus and Steve Liebmann respectively, generally prevailed in the ratings. Today is an Australian morning television program broadcast weekdays from 6am on the Nine Network. ... Channel Nine is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Nine Network, available in major markets across Australia. ... Elizabeth Liz Hayes (born 23 May 1956) is an Australian television presenter. ... George Negus is an Australian author, journalist, and television presenter who as of 2005 is hosting the Dateline current affairs programme for the SBS network. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Chat Show

The chat show of Bert Newton - considered as one of the giants of Australian tv entertainment - began under the title The Morning Show in 1992 and adopted the then vacant title GMA in 1993. The program was cancelled in 2005 and aired its final episode on 16 December as Newton moved to Channel Nine. 9am with David and Kim replaced GMA. Bert Newton Albert Watson Bert Newton, AM, MBE, (born 23 July 1938), is an Australian television, radio, film, stage performer and author. ... The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network, available in major markets across Australia. ... David and Kim on the set of 9am 9am With David and Kim is an Australian morning show which premiered from Monday 30th January 2006 on Network Ten. ...

Good Morning Australia in the end was a chat show that mixed celebrity interviews with advertorials. The advertorials were for products from home-shopping companies such as Danoz Direct and Global Shop Direct, and featured mostly the popular presenter, Moira McLean, in later years also Marianne van Dorslar. John Foreman was the musical director for GMA until 2004, when Mark Amato succeeded him. A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Moira McLean is an Australian television presenter. ... John Foreman is an Australian musician and television personality. ...

Regulars

The show had many regular contributors to varying topical segments:

• Iain Hewitson (cooking)
• Axle Whitehead (music)
• Lauren Newton (daughter of Bert Newton)
• Patti Newton (wife of Bert Newton)
• Tonia Todman (crafts)
• Angela Bishop (celebrity & hollywood gossip)
• Paul Bongiorno (politics)
• Jane Edmanson (gardening)
• Karen Moregold (astrology)
• Elizabeth Chong (cooking)
• Gabriel Gaté (cooking)
• Ann-Maree Biggar (gadgets)

Iain Hewitson is an Australian chef who regular appears on the TV program, Good Morning Australia. ... Axle Whitehead (born Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - 16 December 1980) Axle Whitehead Host of video music show 2004 - November 1, 2006Video Hits Contestant of the first series of Australian Idol in 2003. ... Lauren Newton is the daughter of Australian TV personality Bert Newton and Patti Newton. ... Patti Newton is an Australian performer and television presenter. ... Tonia Todman is an Australian television personality, who has appeared on Good Morning Australia, and also appeared on Rove Live. ... Paul Bongiorno is an Australian political journalist who regular appears on Network Tens news programs and the weekday television program, Good Morning Australia, on the same network. ... Gabriel Gaté (born 1955 in France) is a French-Australian chef. ...

Fill-in Hosts

Bert Newton fell ill in June, 2005 and was unable to host his program for the first time in fourteen years. Newton was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital late on Wednesday after developing viral pneumonia. Newton had been working tirelessly on Mel Brooks musical The Producers in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. While Newton was ill several hosts filled in for him, they included: Bert Newton Albert Watson Bert Newton, AM, MBE, (born 23 July 1938), is an Australian television, radio, film, stage performer and author. ... St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne is owned and operated by the Sisters of Charity. ... Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ... Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky on May 9, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, writer, director and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. ... The 1968 film The Producers was adapted as a critically acclaimed Broadway musical by Mel Brooks in 2001. ... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of 1. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of 4,119,190, and 151,920 in the City of Sydney, as of the 2006 census. ...

• Rove McManus (Friday)
• Daniel MacPherson (Monday)
• Mark Holden (Tuesday)
• Stephen Quartermain (Wednesday)
• Gretel Killeen (Thursday)

Bert Newton returned the following Friday. John Rove McManus (born January 21, 1974) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian variety show host, and owner of the production company Roving Enterprises. ... Daniel MacPherson (born 25 April 1980, in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actor and television presenter. ... Mark Touchdown Holden (born 27 April 1954) is an Australian singer and television personality. ... Stephen Quartermain (born 19--) is an Australian television personality. ... Gretel Killeen (born 3 February 1963), is an Australian journalist, newspaper columnist, author and TV personality, who hosts the Australian version of Big Brother, since 2001. ...

See also

• List of Australian television series
• 9am with David and Kim

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External links

• Network Ten promotional page for GMA
• Good Morning Australia at the Internet Movie Database