Technical faults in British TV are extremely rare. There is a legal cap on how much advertising a broadcaster can output per hour, so when there is a technical fault, they can't just switch to adverts and pretend it's a normal ad break while they fix the problem. Because of this, they have to cut to a static title screen or something, which loses them a hell of a lot of ratings, and thus, money. They can't afford to have technical issues.

"We hope to return to this morning as soon as possible" Must have felt like time stood still at ITV1 until they fixed the fault.... No wonder the sun didn't come up in time!

LOL "in the meantime, heres some music" like someone actually sat down and listen to it, they probably switched to BBC.

The breakdown music is "Into the Dream" by PM The New Relaxation Ensemble.

technical faults are not really that common in the UK.... im from the UK and its rare to see one. gmtv use to have tons of problems with the change from itself to regional news... however i never seem to catch these 'common' faults lol i like it when things go wrong, proves theres humans there!

I can hear philip and fern apologising to the viewers at home about the technical difficulties with their mic

I can hear the people from behind the cameras all coming over to try and fix it just after the camera cuts off into a commercial break

I remember this I was off school at the time o was in year 3 and I was home alone and I was sat in my room and when this come on I started laughing my head off 😂

It was 2 years before fern britton seen here announced she will be leaving this morning for good and got replaced by holly willoughby from 2009 onwards

that may be true but the amount of mixing board failures is also relatively small so but... there are 1 rule when a board breaks, get a new One A.S.A.P and get the other one fixed A.S.A.P to get a spare. replacing a desk can take several hours because of the amount of wires. luckily for them they only need to reboot but a proper desk needs hours of fixing (And that's with 32 channels and extensions) Imaging trying to rewire a large studio desk 50-150 channels maybe even more!

I remember that and was watching it when it crashed! I love the breakdown music and thanks to the person who said what it was here earlier on his post! I love tv music like that!!!

ITV: In the meantime, here's some music. BBC: *That's my line!*

haha love the look of schofield's face at 0:45

music to fill the break! excellent!

' In the mean time here is some music ' LOL that made me laugh

I liked it best when they showed episodes of Batman during the strike!

+OneGrind I know it has been 4 years since you asked, but it is called Signs by Dan Gautreau! Hope this helps!

I remember seeing this on tv I laughed so hard

It is in the gallery controlling sound transmission for This Morning.

"See you in just a couple of minutes." LOL!!

Can we go to a break? Yes, of course you can, mate. The sound is so poorly. I’m so sorry, we can go to a break, and sort out this technical glitch. See you in just a couple of minutes. We’re having a few problems at the moment on ITV 1. We’ll hopefully return to "This Morning" as soon as we possibly can. In the meantime, here’s some music. (music playing) Yooka: What did I do?

i have never heard any of us British refer to the US or any other former colony of the empire as "the former colonies" however i have on many occasions heard it referenced as "shithole"

Maybe if more than the sound desk crashed, and the whole of ITV went off air for good! - how fantastic would that be! :-)

Who is here after Phillip scofield had quit this morning?

Music is Signs - Dan Gautreau

The announcer is Paul Jamieson.

I love itv1

GMTV is the morning period on ITV. I'd agree though, it should be a GMTV pic since they love to class GMTV as its own channel, like ITV switches names daily! But that ITV technical glitch pic is the only technical glitch pic they've used, not a variety like the idents would suggest. Oh, the posts above this already answer the question. I didn't realise this morning wasn't GMTV? Oh well...

"Exactly what you DON'T want"

British tv pres, What day was that when the day was technical problems?

@tomogh the desks aren't the same :P

i bet that man gets bored of saying "Welcome to ITV one, we are currently having some techincal difiuciltys with This Moring an dwe will hopefully return to the program as soon as we possibly can" What happens if its broke for an hour?! ahah.

So does that mean you prefer the U.S. TV bloopers over the ones in the UK?

and that why here in canada and america we have commercials so they can get ready for the next thing

Signs by Dan Gautreau

This the problem with Digital Sound desks, analouge sound desks would not have this problem

How long was the actual break?

yeh thts why the title is called technical fault

ohhh ok

What is the first piece of music called?

Blayer98 I don't want this on my living room TV

You could even hear a producer talking lol at about 0:37

LOL Because They Want To BREAK THE PROGRAM

what's the sound desk?

that was made one month after anna nicole smith died

oops didnt click reAD ALL COMMENTS NOW IT MAKES SENSE :S

The sounds down but the voice is not wow

whats the song called?

Great music 😂😭😭

Who said dumbledor? lawl

i bet they just have a recording of evershow so no one has to speek

ha ha lol

0:12

TUNE

I dont want this on my living room TV

Its not street light...Its the Windows 7 Beta Setup BG in gold with an ITV 1 Logo.

a diagnosed schizophrenic? i wonder whats running through her mind

I know ITV 1 is fixing the fault has no text! hahahahahahahhahaahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaha! rip ITV 1 here some music right now. ITV 1 is recovering the digital tv now 😠 it's now back yayayayyayayayayayayayayayayayayyaayayayaya 😇

*the sound is so appalling*

More importantly Philip Schofield here has just announced that he’s come out as gay and there’s no confirmation about he and Stephanie the couple who were married for 27 years getting divorced