The 'Victoria Derbyshire' Programme

Having just watched the opening and first part of todays programme from the cafe... wow.. it looks and sounds totally awful. This is Uni TV quality yet somehow coming out of Broadcasting House.

Having been involved in providing and equipping studio facilities for a couple of Unis, and seeing the resulting output, you might be being unfair to those establishments, (I didn't see this morning's VD show though)

No honestly, it REALLY looks like something my counterparts produced at uni, whereas I recreated bid-tv and made flats and everything. Not cheap printed roller banners.

Why does the VD production team feel the need to wheel it out to locations that are either hired (another cost saving device) or not worth it (going to a non studio part of a building where the show's studio is). The programme must be taking up enough storage space with the endlessly large collection of furniture they bought (The weird desk, the bar tables and chairs, the grey sofa, the wooden coffee table, the pointless piece of glass for the main desk, the touchscreen and the lounge chairs that are like the Newsnight/BBC World ones but slightly different.) So it seems stupid to wheel it out on location when they have a studio that can do the job (Lib Dem leaders debate) utilising VD's furniture collection that is presumably larger than that of all the programmes they share Studio B with, combined.

From the start the VD show has look as if it interns were in control of the graphics etc. I don't mean the design, but things like on screen graphics coming up wrong, or other issues.

The design has grown on me though, and everyone has to start and learn experience somewhere.

The TV industry seems to be one of the worst places to get into, it seems almost impossible.

You need, at least in my experience, to know very little about TV and almost nothing on how a camera works, and you're a sure fire hire for the BBC. Quality control sadly seems missing in recent years, old hands who really know their stuff, and the younger ones who think they know it, so can't be taught. Anyway I'm going WAY of topic here and should warn myself.

In essence VD on Radio = Amazing, VD on TV, needs work, VD on News Channel... needs news!

What does seem amateur are some of the 'films' which often have an overuse of pointless camera work and video filters. One report the other week was a walk and talk interview in a garden where the hadn't used a steadicam and kept cutting to shots several yards away in monochrome (which did give the impression that they were being hunted by a serial killer/one of the The Day Today production team coming to tell them that it wasn't a training video).

Just watched of the Victoria Derbyshire programme on iPlayer. She is far to serious for the morning, and doesn't have any warmth whatsoever. She doesn't sound friendly, and sounds more like a serious investigative journalist. It's far too hard-hitting for the morning. The whole thing's too serious. It would be better broadcast between 9.15 - 11.00 pm!

Or buried in the midnight hour-and pre-recorded

Hard hitting?

I happened to turn on this morning after 9 when they were talking about affording to have children and benefits accrued from having children. After 5 minutes I had to turn off - I didn't want to have a miserable start to the day. The whole thing just seemed like a misery slot - not something I want to wake upto in the morning. I'd rather Simon McCoy and Carrie Gracie over that any day thank you very much.

Is most of the news not death, destruction and misery, with a hint of politics and a few nice bits on the side?