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CITV Breakfast

1999

CITV Breakfast is a British digital television station owned by ITV Breakfast Limited, part of ITV plc. It broadcasts every morning between 06:00 and 09:25. It was originally designed to complement its sister channel GMTV, and offered children's programming every day. On weekdays teleshopping was shown for the first half hour until 6.30am followed by Action Stations! until 9.25am. Weekends changed to pre-school programming, with Wakey! Wakey! airing 06:00 to 09:00 on Saturdays and Sundays. A teleshopping strand was featured on Saturdays and Sundays airing from 09:00-09:25. A repeat of The Sunday Programme was aired at 07:55-08:55 each Sunday from 1999-2008. The station closed down at 09:25, although viewers didn't notice any changeover between GMTV2 and CITV. On 17 March 2008, ITV2 and its one-hour timeshift channel have been broadcasting 24 hours a day, meaning GMTV2 programming moved from ITV2 to ITV4, broadcasting its usual hours. The stand continues to be simulcast on CITV. As of November 2006, a one hour delayed version of GMTV2 had been available on ITV2+1 on Sky and also on Freeview, running from 07:00 to 10:25, however due to the change from ITV2 to ITV4, GMTV2 was available one hour later on ITV4+1 on Sky Channel 180.

Lee Ross

Cast · Known for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Lee Ross (born 1971) is an English actor known for his roles as nice guy Kenny Phillips in the classic CITV dramedy Press Gang and as the violent and sadistic Owen Turner in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He is also known for his work in the drama series Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest, Secrets & Lies and The Catherine Tate Show.

Paislie Reid

Paislie Reid is an Actress, Writer, Singer and Songwriter Paislie began her career in 'I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!' and went on to feature in 2 seasons of the CITV series 'The New Worst Witch'. She has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Frantic Assembly, Open Clasp, Liverpool Everyman, Liverpool Playhouse, 20 Stories High and Contact Theatre. Paislie's most recent work includes filming an episode for the Sky Atlantic drama 'Tin Star' and featuring in the BBC Radio 4 drama 'The Last Woman Killed in the War' as well as working with Open Clasp for a second time on a theatre for film project called 'SUGAR' which will be released later in the year. Paislie plays The Woman in Storm in the North’s ‘Idlib’.

Danielle McCormack

Danielle Marie McCormack (born 18 September 1983) is an English actress and singer/songwriter and musician. McCormack is best known for playing Mel Barker on the TV show My Parents Are Aliens on CITV between 1999 and 2004, leaving after series 6 for a career in the music industry. She did however appear in the 2005 link episode "Thanks for All the Earthworm Custard", the last episode of series 7. McCormack was born in Yorkshire. She is also an accomplished singer/songwriter and has also written a number of tracks with Geordie Walker of Killing Joke, which were released online.

Nimisha Odedra

Nimisha Odedra is an actress and writer. She trained at Bath Spa School of Music and Performing Arts, (1st Class Hons) Theatre credits include: What Fatima Did (Tamasha); Dracula (European Tour); The Care Project (Old Diorama Arts Centre); Beggar’s Opera (Old Theatre Royal Bath); A Storm in a Chai Cup (Phizzical); 3am (Curve Theatre) Television credits include: Anna Man Ancestry (Sky); So Beano (Sky); Modern Horror Stories (Comedy Central); The Good Guys (BBC Three) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Three); Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three); Spy School (CITV); Comic Relief (BBC One); All together Now (BBC Three); Quickies (BBC Three); Host the Week (Channel 4); Revolting (BBC Two). Film credits include: Firrke (Thug); Finding Fatima (Esplanade Vale Media); Arifa (Shono Productions Ltd); White (Apple Tree Movies); Descendants (Raymond Productions); Aminah (Williams Co); Aashiqui (Film Bazaar). Further Credits: BBC Radio 4 -Alexei Sayle’s Absence of Normal; Academy of Joy; Newsjack and Sketchtopia

Tony Gardner

Tony Gardner (born 10 January 1964) is an English actor and doctor. He sits on the national governing body of the actors' trade union Equity. He attended St Augustine's Catholic College in Trowbridge. Gardner qualified as a physician at Guy's Hospital in 1987, then as a general practitioner in 1993. He combined medicine and comedy during the 1990s as half of the award-winning comedy duo Struck Off and Die with Phil Hammond. Gardner eventually left medicine to become an actor, starring in a number of TV commercials, including that for the Renault Mégane. He reached prominence playing Brian Johnson in CITV's My Parents Are Aliens (episodes of which he also wrote) and Michael, the café owner in Jack Dee's BBC sitcom Lead Balloon. In 2009–10 he starred in three plays directed by Sir Peter Hall. In 2011 he played Professor Tony Shales in the Channel 4 series Fresh Meat. Between 2012 and 2020, he played John in five series of the critically acclaimed romantic drama series Last Tango in Halifax. The programme attracted impressive ratings for BBC One, with the third series posting an average of 7.8 million viewers. Between 2013 and 2015, he appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Smith in three series of the wartime comedy Bluestone 42, about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan during Operation Herrick. He appeared as Dan Miller MP in the BBC political comedy The Thick of It. He was a main character of the music video "Giant Peach" by Wolf Alice. He appeared in a variety of roles in Tracey Ullman's Show from 2016. He also appeared in an episode of the Netflix show, Lovesick, portraying Dylan’s father at surprise wedding anniversary party. In January 2021, Gardner appeared in S11E1 of Not Going Out as a neighbour to Lee and Lucy. He then appeared again in S12E4 in 2022.

Paddy Kingsland

Composer · Known for Doctor Who

Paddy Kingsland (born 30 January 1947) is a composer of electronic music best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Educated at Eggar's Grammar School in Alton, Hampshire, he joined the BBC as a tape editor before moving on to become a studio manager for BBC Radio 1. In 1970 he joined the Radiophonic Workshop where he remained until 1981. His initial work was mostly signature tunes for BBC radio and TV programmes before going on to record incidental music for programmes including The Changes, two versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the second radio series and the TV adaptation), as well as several serials of Doctor Who. His work on the latter series included incidental music for several serials in the early 1980s. Other well-known series which contained music composed by Paddy Kingsland are Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, both travel series by Michael Palin. He also composed music for many schools' television series including Words and Pictures, Rat-a-tat-tat, Watch, Numbercrew, Storytime, English Express, Music Makers, Hotch Potch House and the Look and Read stories "Joe and the Sheep Rustlers" and "The Boy from Space". He has also composed music for the CITV series “Blips”, produced by Ragdoll Productions. Since leaving the BBC, Kingsland has composed music for the KPM music library, television, commercials and corporate videos. He also owns his own studio, PK Studios.