''The Morning Show'' is an Australian morning

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broadcast on the

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and currently hosted by

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and

Larry Emdur Larry Emdur (born 9 December 1964) is an Australian television personality. Emdur is currently co-host of ''The Morning Show (TV program), The Morning Show'' alongside Kylie Gillies, and host of ''The Chase Australia''. The duo also hosted the ...

. The show airs between 9:00 am and 11:30 am on weekdays and follows Seven's breakfast news program ''

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'', with both programs closely interlinked. The program features infotainment, celebrity interviews and live music performances. On weekends, a highlights show is aired between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday featuring segments from the week.

History

The show premiered on the

on 18 June 2007 and originally aired between 9:00 am and 11:00 am on weekdays.

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was the original executive producer of the show and promised to deliver a mix of news and views, new music and regular segments covering health and fitness, astrology, celebrity gossip, cooking, counselling and fashion. Boland built the show on the success of ''

'' which he also produced. In March 2012, ''The Morning Show'' extended to a weekend with highlights of the week airing on Saturdays and Sundays after ''

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''. During the AFL season ''The Morning Show'' was not shown on Sundays in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia due to ''

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'' being shown in those states, until 2020 when AFL Game Day was axed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then it is shown on Sundays during the football season Except in WA if a West Coast Eagles or Fremantle Dockers game is scheduled to start at 11am. On 15 December 2014, ''The Morning Show'' was live to air as the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis occurred across

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from their Channel Seven studio. The program continued to broadcast live pictures from their studio's windows, before all staff (including co-hosts Emdur and Gillies) were forced to evacuate the building, with the network's news coverage switching to the station's

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newsroom where

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anchored rolling coverage.

Ratings

The debut episode averaged 272,000 viewers, beating both ''9am with David and Kim'' (147,000) and ''Mornings with Kerri Anne'' (126,000). Since its launch in June 2007 the show has rated first nearly every week against the

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and

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. The program did not lose a day until 31 October 2012, when it was beaten by '' Mornings'', and did not lose a week until March 2016, when it was beaten by ''

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''.

Format

The show's format is similar to ''Sunrise'' and consists of a mix of news, entertainment and lifestyle. The show also features live and prerecorded

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s similar to those featured in rival shows ''

'' and ''

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''. The show is broadcast live at the same Martin Place studio. When the show first started out there was a fixed music theme used regularly throughout the show. In 2010, the theme was scrapped with more popular recent music being now used as bumpers.

Presenters

Former presenters

Fill-in presenters

Current presenters who have been fill-in hosts or co-hosts of ''The Morning Show'' in recent times include Angela Cox,

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Monique Wright Monique Wright (born 18 May 1973) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Wright is currently co-host of ''Weekend Sunrise''.

, Gemma Acton and

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. Fill-in presenters for other roles, in order from most likely to be used to least likely to be used: * News: Jodie Speers and Amber Laidler.

Advertorial presenters

*Karen Ledbury *Jamie Malcolm

Former advertorial presenters

* Glenn Wheeler * John Burgess *Leah McLeod *

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Logo history

File:The_Morning_Show_07.png, 2007–2011 File:TheMorningShow.png, 2013–present

References

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