Masterclass: Behind the scenes of ITV’s Good Morning Britain and Good Morning Britain with Lorraine during Covid

This session goes behind the scenes of one of Britain’s most popular programmes to see how they are producing four hours of daily live content during Covid.

This is a Q&A session for an audience of  industry freelancers, so please come along with your questions to put to Good Morning Britain’s editor Neil Thompson and Good Morning Britain with Lorraine’s editor Victoria Kennedy.

Speakers

Victoria Kennedy has been the editor of Lorraine since 2017. During her editorship, ratings have increased every year and in 2019 the show celebrated Lorraine Kelly's 35 years in broadcasting with the show experiencing its highest ratings in five years.

Victoria started her career in print working in newspapers and magazines - including five years on the features desk at the Daily Mirror before becoming the Deputy Editor of Now magazine when it was selling 500,000 copies a week. Her first job in TV was as Deputy Editor of This Morning before she moved across to edit ITV's Lorraine. At the start of lockdown the programme temporarily moved into the GMB studio to continue to broadcast safely. GMB with Lorraine is now watched by 1.2m viewers a day and reaches 5.2m individuals a week.

A former national newspaper reporter and magazine editor, Neil Thompson moved into television production in 1989, initially with the network factual team at London Weekend Television. Since then he has worked across ITV as a programme commissioner, producer, format developer and channel director. As well as making a wide range of programmes for ITV he has also been commissioned by Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, BBC, History Channel and TLC, working at some point across all of the programme genres including factual, news, current affairs, lifestyle, daytime, entertainment, factual entertainment and drama. He has been a member of ITV’s Senior Leadership Team since the 2002 merger of Granada and Carlton, holding MD level executive and business briefs as well as his editorial ones. In 2014 he took over ITV's breakfast strand and relaunched it as Good Morning Britain, reversing a decade-long decline in the ratings and doubling the audience size.

This event is supported by the ScreenSkills Television Skills Fund which invests in training for the freelance television workforce thanks to contributions from the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

It is part of a ScreenSkills programme managed by the Indie Training Fund to support freelancers to upskill and stay connected, helping keep the industry resilient in these difficult times.

This session will take place online via Zoom. Click ‘get ticket’ to reserve your place: you must login or register before you are able to get a ticket for this event. A booking confirmation with a joining link to the session will be sent to you via email.

If you are no longer able to use your ticket, we ask you to please contact support@screenskills.com  so that we can release your place. Our sessions are often oversubscribed, so we’d like to give other freelancers the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.