Morning Glory is set against the backdrop of a GMTV-style breakfast TV programme - Ford's character is an old-school presenter who quits his evening newscast job in disgust at the show's increasingly lowbrow direction; recruited by a young news producer to pep up a morning chatshow, he finds himself working alongside his rival.
But what of the revered middle-aged curmudgeon, the old-school presenter who acts as a necessary buffer to the bullish ebullience of the glass-half-full brigade, a presenter who, given half a chance, will gladly put a prime minister in their place?
Hammond was brought up in Essex, where a classmate at his state school was the TV presenter Richard Madeley, who recalled the future politician arriving in class wearing a leather jacket "with the Guardian under his arm".
Wilman, an old school friend of former presenter Jeremy Clarkson, helped relaunch the show with him in 2002.
Plus, everyone is obsessed with global markets, so pre-school programmes with presenters, such as Play School, don't offer a good return, unlike those with puppets and costumed characters which can easily be dubbed into every language in the world (and used for merchandising).
All three presenters provided the school with Teenage Cancer Trust student booklets.
The place to be Shepherd's Bush Green Miquita Oliver, television presenter My walk to school went past Damon Albarn's house: it was such a big deal.
The section with the highest proportion of individuals who said they went to state schools (70%) was sport, although no 1 in the section, television presenter Clare Balding, attended an independent school.
For many years, I have been chairman of a P.T.A. committee that brings arts presenters to our elementary school.
At my school in Bromley people know me as the presenter girl," she says, still wearing her school uniform.
One woman named Fiona, who was 14 at the time, said she was one of several girls from her school who were invited to ride in the presenter's Rolls-Royce.
