It's tacky as hell. I may sound like a broken record, but I don't care. NO other major news broadcaster but the BBC uses CGI backdrops of fake deserted newsrooms, because they look absolutely ridiculous. It looks like someone involved with Newsnight copped on to this, and the programme seriously dodged a bullet by changing their mind at the last minute for the 2010 relaunch. Hopefully the presence of a real newsroom behind Studio E, and a London backdrop in the photos we've seen of the World studio, mean the move to BH will be the end of these abominations forever.
In Salford, Breakfast will, of course, still have its creepy empty space with coloured banners and high stools and birds flying out of Bill Turnbull's ear in an impossibly orange sky, but I don't watch TV in the mornings, so I can just pretend that doesn't exist.
By the way see in picture 3 on that page, at the bit where one videowall joins the other, is that 'overhang' in the image present in all of BBC News' bacdrops?
By the way see in picture 3 on that page, at the bit where one videowall joins the other, is that 'overhang' in the image present in all of BBC News' bacdrops?
I assume you mean the slopey curved ceiling bit?!?
All of the Barco sets have a mirror in the corners which reflects a little of the adjacent image. Something to do with getting the corners lined up properly meant there was a noticable gap between screens. The mirror covers this up.
Had a chance to see the new look for the first time on the international wrap-up edition which airs on BBC World. The new set works very well, but the titles are just atrocious. The worst I've seen come out of Britain in many years. If they couldn't be bothered getting someone with the technical ability to create titles of an appropriate standard, they should've just kept the old ones.
