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Yes, the early Pip years were definitely in the pres studios. There's a great interview with Pip in the Radio Times to promote his second series where he says that the one thing he's looking forward to in the new series is some new chairs, because the ones for the previous series were horrible.
As you say, it broadened its horizons a bit in later years, so it was never quite as good for a TV-mad kid like me, but I did stick with it until the bitter end, long after I'd grown out of much of the other CBBC output.
I think Take Two started as essentially a continuation of Ask Aspel, after Michael Aspel decided to stop presenting it. I liked the low key nature of the early Schofield years, when it was presented from what is presumably one of the presentation studios at Television Centre, with the bare studio walls visible, so was a bit disappointed when in 1989 they started to jazz it up with a more upbeat theme tune and I think that maybe when they introduced a studio audience. I think the remit eventually expanded to cover all aspects of the media - music, newspapers, magazines etc as well as TV - though I had long since stopped watching by then.
Yes, the early Pip years were definitely in the pres studios. There's a great interview with Pip in the Radio Times to promote his second series where he says that the one thing he's looking forward to in the new series is some new chairs, because the ones for the previous series were horrible.
As you say, it broadened its horizons a bit in later years, so it was never quite as good for a TV-mad kid like me, but I did stick with it until the bitter end, long after I'd grown out of much of the other CBBC output.