BBC Breakfast

Do you mean Countryfile : Winter Diaries? If so - if the Breakfast presenters handed directly to it rather than the show ending with a full closing sequence, then that's not unheard of. ISTR that Breakfast handed directly to Rip Off Britain Live (though that was a live show) when that followed them.

Pretty sure this is now standard practice every single weekday.

Yeah they haven't had a proper close on a weekday for a while they just throw over to the next show.

Do they do much presentation like this? Happened to stumble across this clip with Charlie Stayt doing a DTL interview at a screen.

Now with all the recent speculation/rumour/gossip/innuendo about a refresh, etc. I’m loathe to post this, but... wouldn’t the BBC Winter Olympic studio make a rather interesting studio for Breakfast?
https://tvforum.uk/forums/post1099708#post-1099708
Before anybody asks - I know nothing. It’s an observation. A suggestion.

How well lit is the backdrop at 0600 in the winter?

(And do Breakfast have the budget to take over a new space - and pay for it - when they already have a studio? That's a genuine question - not a 'they don't'. I have no idea.)

Did you never watch Daybreak?

Yep, having a bloody great pillar in the middle would make things "interesting"

Thames News had a pillar in the middle of its studio (Studio 7) at Euston Road. From the TV Studio History website:
http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/images/euston%20news%20studio.jpg


http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/studio%20history.htm#euston

Yes. If you talk to people who worked on Thames News you get a good idea, very quickly, of how good that was to work around.

Like you, I can’t answer those questions I’m afraid. It just struck me that this studio has appeared in Salford with a view outside and is much closer to the original plane for Breakfast when it moved.

As nice as it was to see Breakfast originate from the BBC Sport studio, there’s little (if any) hope of that being permanent. I’m sorry to disappoint all those that would wish it otherwise.

The point is that this studio exists. To my knowledge it hasn’t been used before. It’s certainly large enough and may offer a suitable backdrop.

Is it possible? I don’t know. As Noggin rightly put it, budgetry constraints may preclude any move (even to the Sport studio) but this would appear to be a more practical suggestion than the former.

There are of course practical challenges, too. I remember all too well the debacle at Daybreak (and the ensuing brouhaha hereabouts). It is a suggestion. How would the BBC remedy the issue? Do they use a backdrop to block the view until sufficiently light enough (eg. The Today Show on NBC)?

The pillar could be a challenge. If it is required for structural purposes, then how could it be used practically? Studio 57 at CBS has made use of pillars for monitors and stand-up broadcast positions. Equally, from what little I’ve seen of the studio in use so far (including the video above) it hasn’t proven to be much of an obstacle. Yet!

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