BBC Breakfast

Also note the size of the EMI 2001 cameras and the size of the lights. A nice shot, that reception desk did get in the way! Fond memories of 'pop' bands outside miming on 'the Bridge' when they couldn't hear the track!
On a sunny day, it was big studio, and large over-size items like cars could be demonstrated using the perimeter-road, and there was the garden.....

PM at One. A programme of its time. All exciting..... dear Donny M.

From memories, I thought the PM foyer was massive as it managed to get both an audience & a performance area besides the interview area?

He's been in studio every show since it came back this series and appears to be the third presenter along side Anne and Matt.

I think Chris also did location reports last series I think - and was in studio after some/all of them. He seems to have replaced Anita Rani. Sian Williams did a report for Watchdog this week, and was also in studio afterwards. Dom Littlewood and Martin Lewis also appear in studio and front reports for the show.

Things always look bigger on the telly than they really are - particularly if you have windows with a view of things relatively close to you in the back of shot. I think the main interview area was always quite intimate.

Although watching it now, the show was very much of its time, it was groundbreaking for its time in its use of a non-studio studio. The building was a very well designed TV studio centre, built in the heyday of studio drama (All Creatures Great and Small, various costume dramas, Howards Way etc. were all made there ISTR) and daytime studio shows - before location based recording became as widespread (and practical/cost-effective)

... and then there was the late-night show that was done from PM ... everyone dressed in their finery.....

Hot lights, no air-conditioning, almost no sound-proofing... vulnerable... room for only a couple of huge 2001s on Vinten-peds... Improvisation at its best!


(Sorry- off topic).

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Yesterday was Breakfast's 10th anniversary...by the looks of it, it will most likely go on to be the longest on air "brand" of BBC breakfast tv....unless they (highly unlikely) ditch the Breakfast name when they move to Manchester

Saturday Night at the Mill? Remember an edition during the musician's strike when the presenters had to 'take cover' in an inside studio because of the sound of brass band music outside! You don't get strikes like those anymore.

Yes, 10 years completely trashes the 17 of GMTV.

He said BBC breakfast television, not breakfast television in general

Oh. Right. Whoops. Yes. Sorry.