BBC News 8pm 90 seconds slot

I'm guessing they had some questionable market research saying that if they'd used the normal studio it would have put people off watching it and made it less accessible.

And predictably it was going to be using BBC One branding rather than News (not even an end credit.)

The national headlines seemed reasonable, if anything our local bulletin was slightly more 'dumbed down', as the weather copy went along the lines of it - "its going to be very cold tonight [slight pause] so you'll need to scrape the ice off your windscreens in the morning."

They could really do with an extra 30 seconds or so and losing a trail. But that won't happen.

Some caps here of what the Midlands Today update looked like.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/update5.png

I missed it... is it on YouTube or the BBC site?

I hit record but it never recorded! Sorry about that, all I can offer is pictures I'm afraid.

Good grief. That's terrible.

Pictures are cool. I find it interesting that they used CSO rather than the studio corner of the pilot.

Did the BBC get Dame Edna Everage presenting ?

Is it an off the shoulder doily ?

To be honest that picture near the start is one of the better bits, it was when they got onto the stories that it looked the worst. Have they gone for CSO rather than the studio corner because it's cheaper?

Studio corner looked much better.

Agreed, against the black it looked horrendous!
Here are a few more.
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/Capture6.png
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/update6.png
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/update7.png
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/update8.png

Those pics show it in a much better way than it actually was. There was green noise around a lot of the picture, not just Kaplinsky2

Anyways, the content itself was good i think, and local was all around good. Surprised there wasn't even a "Next a quick news summary" after Mastermind though.