History Recap / ITVInTheFaceS1E3FromHellToBreakfast

* ForgotToPayTheBill: Within seven weeks of going on air, the company was so strapped for cash that they received a final notice from the London Electricity Board. At another time, they ended up in debt to their local newsagents.

** Roland Rat left for his own SpinOff series on Creator/TheBBC.

* ForgotToPayTheBill: Within seven weeks of going on air, the company was so strapped for cash that they received a final notice from the London Electricity Board. At another time they ended up in debt to their local newsagents.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Timmy Mallett's contribution to ''Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini'' is likened to "your dad at the disco."

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Timmy Mallett's contribution to ''Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini'' is likened to "your dad down the disco."

** ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' is mentioned as one of the old shows Gyngell used to fill the dead air during the strike.

* ExcitedKidsShowHost: Timmy Mallett in ''Wacaday''.

** After the channel gave up on hard news, they scraped by with an extremely reduced news service consisting of not much more than a presenter reading out headlines against a single chromakey backdrop. They mostly managed with this until they got caught out by the 1984 bombing of the Brighton Grand Hotel, where they couldn't do much more than shout questions down a telephone.

** Bruce Gyngell was known for being as tightfisted as he could possibly get away with. While this was able to keep the channel afloat when it had been anticipated that it would fail, this [[OutOfTheFryingPan backfired]] when the cost-cutting resulted in 220 technical staff declaring a 24-hour strike. Gyngell responded by [[BadBoss firing the strikers]] and stepping in to direct ''Good Morning Britain'' himself while drafting in the station's auxiliary staff such as receptionists and canteen workers

** Bruce Gyngell was known for being as tightfisted as he could possibly get away with. While this was able to keep the channel afloat when it had been anticipated that it would fail, this [[OutOfTheFryingPan backfired]] when the cost-cutting resulted in 220 technical staff declaring a strike.

** Bruce Gyngell was known for being as tightfisted as he could possibly get away with.

* VacationEpisode: Greg Dyke pioneered the "summer roadshow" format that would become popular with many British TV shows out of [[ImprovisionalIngenuity a need to for a relatively inexpensive gimmick to boost ratings]].

* CuttingCorners: After the channel gave up on hard news, they scraped by with an extremely reduced news service consisting of not much more than a presenter reading out headlines against a single chromakey backdrop. They mostly managed with this until they got caught out by the 1984 bombing of the Brighton Grand Hotel, where they couldn't do much more than shout questions down a telephone.

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Greg Dyke, future director-general of the BBC, worked for a time as the Director of Programmes for TV-AM.

* CastFullOfWriters: The original "Famous Five" presenters weren't just the onscreen talent but shareholders and executive directors in the TV-Am company.

** Offscreen executive Peter Jay is described as TV-Am's equivalent of [[Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen Jeremy Dyson]], save for the fact that Creator/MichaelSheen hasn't played him in a movie yet.

* ChannelHop (InUniverse): Angela Rippon ended up leaving her earlier job at Creator/TheBBC to set up TV-AM.

* ForgotToPayTheBill: Within seven weeks of going on air, the company was so strapped for cash that they received a final notice from the London Electricity Board.

* HeAlsoDid: Prior to taking over from Peter Jay, Jonathan Aitken MP had worked for ITV before as a presenter on Yorkshire Television's ''Calendar''.

** TV-AM's "mission to explain" is described as having been "accomplished only in the George W. Bush sense of the word."

* RecycledInSpace: The original expectation for BBC's ''Breakfast Time'' was that it was going to be "''Series/{{Newsnight}} with cornflakes.''

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor (InUniverse): At one point the narration alludes to the HookersAndBlow scandal that ended ''Breakfast Time'' presenter Frank Bough's career at Creator/TheBBC.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: At one point the narration alludes to the HookersAndBlow scandal that ended ''Breakfast Time'' presenter Frank Bough's career at Creator/TheBBC.

* RoleEndingMisdemenor: At one point the narration alludes to the HookersAndBlow scandal that ended ''Breakfast Time'' presenter Frank Bough's career at Creator/TheBBC.

* RoleEndingMisdemenour: At one point the narration alludes to the HookersAndBlow scandal that ended ''Breakfast Time'' presenter Frank Bough's career at Creator/TheBBC.

* NetworkDecay: TV-AM started out under David Frost with ''Good Morning Britain'' serving up hard news and discussion. In a little under a decade, it gradually became a vehicle for cheap celebrity gossip and low-effort kids' programming.