[Former Member 406]

The newly updated This Morning titles, now featuring more donut, got me thinking about television title sequences featuring Television Centre.

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I'd always thought that the This Morning titles being too "Holly & Phill"-centric might one day prove problematic, if either/both of them were ever suddenly gone.

I of course could never have imagined a scenario anything like Schofield's recent fall from grace would arise, but was thinking more along the lines of the much younger (and therefore potentially more ambitious?) Willoughby being much more open/likely to getting poached by other broadcasters whilst her star is/was in ascendancy - and therefore might not necessarily have stuck around at TM for too long.

TM is one of those programmes where the format is more key than whoever happens to currently present it. The changing line-ups over the years, including at least two sudden abrupt departures of presenters (John Leslie and Phillip Schofield), are testament to this.

Having to fudge a presenter-less title sequence from a storyboard that was inherently designed to be presenter-centric was always gonna look a bit rubbish. The new aerial shot of the TVC donut looks like it's been borrowed from a previous GMB title sequence!

The extent to which most folk almost exclusively referred to it as "Richard & Judy" (rather than its actual title) during the first 13 years - as if no other members of the entire human race could possibly ever present it, and that it would definitely have to be axed if R&J ever quit - seems like a parallel universe situation now.