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Article: Dear Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 14, 1994
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You must be feeling rotten about the latest viewing figures from
the British Audience Ratings Bureau, which show you being trounced
by your deadly rivals over on ITV, Judy Finnigan and Richard
Madeley. While their mid-morning ITV coffee-and-chat show, This
Morning, boasts an average audience of around 1.8 million, your
BBC1 clone, Good Morning, can only scrape up 900,000 viewers.
Of course, their new series had a six-week head start on yours.
But your show starts 30 minutes earlier, which levels the playing
field. The BBC press office is putting on a brave face, but your
problems are much subtler than mere scheduling,
First there is the question of chemistry. While nobody wold
describe it as ...