Granada Reports

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this tickled me up...

The brightness of the screen change a bit during the weather segment, they must have some energy saving thing switched on.

The fact that they've turned the desk just a bit looks quite odd and untidy, IMO.

It does, not sure if I like it to be honest. Too dark and dreary as well

I didn't mind the plasma but i think they need to have the straps off the plasma because she stood right in front of them.

I still don't think the lighting was quite right tonight - if you watch the interview Lucy did with Adam Crozier online, it shows a clip of Lucy & Tony in rehearsal which looks a hell of a lot better lit. At the moment it just looks like there is no key light.

I'm no fan of the background... whether the buildings outside are lit or not. It just seems a rather bland and unrecognisable backdrop especially compared to Londons which does make you think 'London'. I kept thinking the building on the left looked as if a sign had been taken down and left a discolored patch.

Also, does anyone else think it looks odd that they are trying to uniform the look of regional and national news but national is so clearly CSO which as much as I hate their fake gallery background, is fine but why not use it for both or neither.

Bland and unrecogniseable though is probably quite good for a regional like Granada. It isn't like the old backdrop had anything really recogniseable in it either, and to be honest apart from a view down Coronation Street I'm not sure what would constitute a recogniseable backdrop from Manchester anyway.

Lucy looks really uncomfortable with the chair/low desk combination. A higher desk would be better.

Yep...

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Further coverage at TV Live

The plasma looks awful, it's all wonky on the camera, and the desk wasn't also straight with the platform. I'm not really an OCD kind of person, but it just deducts from what's otherwise a wonderful studio.

Name mistakes again. After BBC WN doing it at 5am, here comes Granada. They have to fix it ASAP, although we know them well.

Ah well, that's Manchester's curse. It's a shame they don't broadcast from Liverpool - that has a very recognisable backdrop.