Good Morning Australia (1992 TV program)

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Good Morning Australia (or GMA), originally titled The Morning Show, was an Australian morning television variety program on Network Ten between 1992 and 2005.^[1]

The program aired from 9:00am – 11:00am (9:00am – 11:30am for most of its run). The show was a lead in to the 11:30 News.

Program history[]

The program debuted on Network Ten on 20 January 1992 with the title The Morning Show, changing its name the following year from 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. Good Morning Australia replaced the long running Sydney based Til-Ten which was presented by Joan McInnes.

For most of 1992, the show was produced in Melbourne from Ten's Nunawading Studios, from 1993 following the changing of the name to Good Morning Australia (aka GMA with Bert Newton),^{[citation needed]} production of the show moved to level 4 at Network Ten’s South Yarra studios.

The show featured numerous guests in each episode, often singers and actors. Regular segments included cooking, crafts, gardening, movie reviews and parenting. 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.

Often the off-camera crew acted as the studio audience. Starting in 2005 the public could view the taping on Fridays.

Bert Newton's sign off at the end of each program was: We'll see you tomorrow [or ‘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, Thursdays and Fridays. From mid-2004 onwards, the show became 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

Musical direction and singers[]

John Foreman was the program's musical director from the program's inception in 1992^[4] for GMA until his retirement in 2004, when Mark Amato was appointed as his replacement for the final two years.^[5]

Some of the singers that have performed on the show include:

• Abby Joyce
• Carmen Hendricks
• Anthony Callea
• Reverend Funk and the Horns of Salvation
• Cosima De Vito
• Gloria Gaynor
• Tommy Rando
• Susie French
• Melissa Langton
• Mark Jones
• Get O Roukes The Gear
• Ricki-Lee Coulter
• Jimmy Cupples
• Kate DeAraugo
• The Seekers
• Hayley Jensen
• Rhonda Burchmore
• Matt Amy's Really Big Band
• Shannon Noll
• Joey Dee
• Jerson Trinidad
• Tina Cousins
• Lucy Gale
• Guy Sebastian
• Angela Librandi
• Matt Hetherington
• Tina Arena
• Kellie Wright
• Tracy Kingman

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 programme's entire run, appeared as "Belvedere", the official food taste tester during the cooking segments.^[6]

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 of 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 Bert Newton as presenter 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 10 June 2005), host of Rove Live
• Daniel MacPherson (Monday 13 June 2005), actor and Dancing with the Stars host
• Mark Holden (Tuesday 14 June 2005), judge on Australian Idol
• Stephen Quartermain (Wednesday 15 June 2005), sports presenter of Ten News First Melbourne
• Gretel Killeen (Thursday 16 June 2005), host of Big Brother

Advertorials[]

The show featured a number of advertorial presenters, including Moira McLean^[7] (1992–2005), Susie Elelman^[8] (1993–1999), Ed Phillips (2000 – May 2005), Shannon Watts (September 2005 – December 2005) and Marianne van Dorslar (199?–2005).^[9] The advertorials were for products from companies , Guthy Renker and .

Related shows[]

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[]

• List of longest-running Australian television series
• List of Australian television series
• 9am with David & Kim
• Elizabeth Chong's Tiny Delights

References[]

External links[]

• Good Morning Australia (1993–2005) at IMDb