BBC Breakfast

Is there any way that the breakfast studio could be refreshed in any way to make it look a bit more like the Broadcasting house studios? , I know the set isn't old but would they want to make it look a bit more national?. By that I mean putting a curved light around the desk as seen in the new studios , and small things like this? thanks,

There are space restrictions within such an oddly shaped studio, and there is also the fact that it was primarily designed to accommodate the regional news/sports programmes, so needs to tie in with their current branding.

As it's just converted office space, the lighting rig is perhaps too low to install one of the semi-circular overhead lights. The pull-out sequences going into the opts show how low it is.

Perhaps it would be better if Breakfast moved to one of the other studios used by the BBC at Salford. They seem a lot more flexible.

Yes, far too low.

Nothing to stop them shrinking the picture in a DVE and overlaying a digital matte plate of a higher ceiling, except that it might look naff.

Can they not just do a digital set extension like the Arabic studio? Also, what happened to the intended NWT/Breakfast studio?

Though you'd need to lock off the camera to do that - and I suspect they need the camera to do other stuff in the show? (You could fake a bit of a zoom with a DVE as well - as ITN used to do)

I wouldn't lock off the jib, I'd drop a camera off the lighting rig and use that.

Could they knock the front part of the studio wall down and enlarge it?

And I'm surprised the breakfast studio can fit a jib inside!

I don't know how you make a ceiling higher by knocking down a wall.

Well if it's a load bearing wall the ceiling should collapse - problem solved!

I think you're forgetting the BBC Sport offices above the studio, and then the other two floors on top of that.

Haha! I never meant to say that to make the ceiling higher I meant the width of the studio! I now fully understand they can't do that But on a more serious question is there any other studio breakfast could go to for more space? or if their normal studio was experiencing technical difficulties and could not be used? or maintenance?

I've said it before on the forum that they could move to the space they originally were meant to be at, which is ground floor, overlooking the Quays, where the interactive area for tours is. Good ceiling height and a large space. Problem solved.

In the unlikely event of technical problem, they'd probably use the secondary Sports studio.