[JMT1985]

This seems to be a poorly misjudged moment for GMB - if they were planning for a two hour recorded Christmas Day version - surely planning would enable them to just air their two hour recorded show, and if anything terrible happened, an announcement before the show would have saved the two hour programme.

Remember, hardly anyone watches GMB on Christmas Day, so it is not as if they will be affecting millions of viewers, more like affecting a few thousand who bother to have ITV1 on at 7am on Christmas morning.