[Humphrey Hacker]

I think there's a few notable distinctions to be made when comparing GMB and GBN.

Firstly, Good Morning Britain is a three hour weekday programme on ITV1/STV, whereas GB News is a channel which has several programmes on it.

Secondly, as far as I'm aware Good Morning Britain isn't hosted by any current serving politicians, let alone having a current serving politician interview another current serving politician. By contrast some of GB News' programmes are hosted by current serving politicians, albeit some may be standing down at the next general election. Having one serving politician interview another gives rise to the accusations surround impartiality, especially when they're both on the same political party. Whilst Ed Balls does regularly present on GMB he hasn't been an MP since 2015.

One similarity both have (these days) is that they both have a separate newsreader, who reads the news summary/headlines. For GB News this allows them to claim that the news and 'opinion content' is clearly separated from the rest of the programmes. I imagine the same would apply for Good Morning Britain.

Seperation is the problem. Historically with British breakfast shows it's been clear what is the news content and what isn't - though with GMB the lines are blurred more with their pointless "debates", especially as they come from the news desk. With GB News though that seperation isn't there at all, despite what they may think.

Whilst it's good GMB isn't as sickly sofa-ery as GMTV was it probably wouldn't harm the show to be softened a bit more around the edges.

Both the above posts sum up the situation as I see it. To me a news bulletin should be just that with a clear delineation between the news and what I called features such as interviews, comments etc. It's an idea that was done away with a long time ago with the creation of "news magazine programmes".

It's right to say that GMB and GBN are different entities but the principle is the same specifically what should be said by who and at what point. GBN has started to rectify that with the brief bulletins but they're so quick and ill-defined that it's a mess.

GMB is the same but with more awareness of what goes where. I think an issue is the doubling up. You have Susanna or Ben reading out the headlines and then going straight into the issues of the day both from the desk. Surely the couch would be better.