His first feature film comedy, A Kind of Kidnapping, is released next month. “It’s got this cult-like status.”Ĭlark, a filmmaker and comedian, wrote and starred in his own sitcom, How Not To Live Your Life. The pilot episode now lingers on YouTube – a teaser for what could have been an excruciating Julia Davis classic. “People really love that pilot,” says Dan Clark, its director. But the series – like the remainder of Gail’s daytime TV career, we can only assume – never made it. Morning Has Broken was commissioned for a full series and even cast David Schwimmer in a major role.
The scenes are only marginally more toe-curling than Willoughby’s This Morning monologue. Gail is told – still live on air – that the producer/patient hanged herself an hour ago. In the final scenes, Gail follows instructions to be “more spontaneous” by calling the secure unit of a psychiatric hospital – live on air – so she can wish her former, mentally-broken producer a happy birthday. But Gail’s nose is put severely out of joint by the arrival of a new producer, who insists on pepping up the format and promoting Mike, the show’s resident doctor – played by Nick Mohammed – to permanent co-host.
In the pilot, which was made in 2014, Davis plays Gail Sinclair – the queen of daytime television and host of the aptly-named magazine show, Morning! With Gail Sinclair. Delivered with the air of a mollycoddling primary school teacher who has to break tragic news – in this case, Phillip Schofield no longer presenting This Morning – Willoughby’s monologue presumed, rather patronisingly, that Schofield’s departure has left the country with a deep, emotional wound.įor some it brought to mind Morning Has Broken, the Channel 4 comedy pilot written by and starring Julia Davis and Nick Mohammed. “Firstly, are you OK? I hope so.” Holly Willoughby’s address to the nation this week was a cringe-making moment in the This Morning drama.
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