BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Considering World is mostly 8 minute summaries at weekends I don't get why things aren't moved around so that world use the smaller D and the NC use C when E is out of use at the weekend. Especially when things such as dateline are taken into account which look out of place in D.

So disrupt two teams having them working in studios and galleries they are less familiar with rather than just one?

I'm sure right at the outset it was said that D would be available for just this type of purpose.

Is D much smaller than C? I guess there may be an argument for using B on Saturday if available (I think World have used it in the past) so Dateline looks a bit better.

There were still quite a few teen/youth sitcoms that were taped into the 90s and early 00s, the sort that appeared on Channel 4 on Sunday mornings (then T4 when that started), and later on Trouble, I think the last of them ended production around 2002. I can think of a couple from the 00s as well that apparently went out with a film effect in the US, but didn't here. There were quite a lot of videotaped US sitcoms in the 70s and 80s, maybe even the majority, but I'm not sure a lot of them were shown, or at least weren't popular, here (but I've seen them repeated when I've been in the US).

Funnily enough sticking a film look on studio sitcoms never seemed to be a big thing here, there seemed to be a few in the late 90s/early 00s, then it had all but died out again in the mid-00s, though seems to have come back again to an extent in recent years. Have any UK sitcoms ever been done in front of an audience on multi-camera film? The only filmed ones I can think of are shows like Last Of The Summer Wine and The Detectives, which were made without an audience but shown to one later. The first 2 series of Chef were on film, but I'm not sure if they were done in front of an audience- the third was, but was made on video.

Last of the Summer Wine used to be video-inside (with a live audience, I think), film-outside.

Just found a couple of clips which I thought may be of interest from David Lowe's YouTube channel. I'm guessing they're from when they were doing rehearsals for NBH as the countdown is quite clearly a dummy one and the guy who appears in the last second I've never ever seen before.

Also interesting to see Simon and Carrie presenting the News at Six at 11:18 in the morning!

Unless I'm very much mistaken, the person at the end of the second video is Nicky Schiller, long-time TV Forum member alias NickyS.

Isn’t he the one that sends out all that promotional stuff I think referred to as “tat” to many people? Seen numerous persons post it on Twitter. Can’t imagine the expense.

Yes, that's Nicky. I for one look forward to my Nicky Schiller TAT each Christmas. The stuff he sends certainly comes in useful - in fact I used his Nicky Schiller TAT Ice Scraper to clear snow off my car just this week!

I assume that Studio D is missing a lot of junction templates... Because some programmings like Newsroom Live couldn't have its intros and stings played in D, resulting them to use the generic "BBC News" template.

Another way you can tell the countdown is a dummy is that:

- The satellite dish scenes are clearly freely downloaded ones
- The countdown timer uses the Gill Sans font instead of Helvetica

I love watching this sort of stuff, is there anymore of NickyS’s rehearsals?