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Good Morning Australia
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| Good Morning Australia from 1993 GMA with Bert Newton |
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 Bert Newton on GMA |
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| Genre | Chat show |
| Starring | various hosts |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Production | |
| Running time | 180 / 120 minutes (inc. commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Network Ten |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original run | 1981 – 2005 |
Good Morning Australia (or GMA) from Network Ten, started out in 1981 as a 6:00 to 9:00 breakfast tv news cum entertainment show and continued from 1993 as a two-hour long weekday chat cum advertorials show until 2005. The successor to the later edition is 9am with David and Kim.
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Good Morning Australia started out breakfast television program broadcast by Ten News with the 6:00 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, later Joy Smithers and then Sandra Sully again.
The male co-host position of GMA was filled by Tim Webster, Mike Gibson, Terry Willessee, Mike Hammond and Ron Wilson. The program was cancelled at the end of 1993.
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 femle lead and co-hosts George Negus and Steve Liebmann respectively, generally prevailed in the ratings.
The chat show of Bert Newton - considered as one of the giants of Australian tv entertainment - began under the title The Morning Show 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.
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.
The show had many regular contributors to varying topical segments:
- Iain Hewitson (cooking)
- Axle Whitehead (music)
- Lauren Newton (daughter of Bert Newton)
- Patti Newton (former 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)
- Nikki Webster of Olympics 2000 teen-singing fame
- Ann-Maree Biggar (gadgets)
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:
- Rove McManus (Friday)
- Daniel MacPherson (Monday)
- Mark Holden (Tuesday)
- Stephen Quartermain (Wednesday)
- Gretel Killeen (Thursday)
Bert Newton returned the following Friday.