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Breakfast Set

Is it too old already? (January 2005)

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Adam
Spencer For Hire posted:

I have to agree with everything which has been said so far, although I'm surprised no-one's commented on the utterly dismal backdrop. It looks like one of those fake outdoor views you see on the Neighbours set when they open a front-door. And where exactly is it supposed to be? It looks like the inside of an airport terminal building.


It's meant be be an artist's impression of the new White City building, apparently.
JA
jamesmd
Adam posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:

I have to agree with everything which has been said so far, although I'm surprised no-one's commented on the utterly dismal backdrop. It looks like one of those fake outdoor views you see on the Neighbours set when they open a front-door. And where exactly is it supposed to be? It looks like the inside of an airport terminal building.


It's meant be be an artist's impression of the new White City building, apparently.


I've trawled the forum, and it's BA's headquarters. The red squares must be awful after a bad night, and I can't think why they joined the desks up.
BN
Breakfast News
Well I suspect that we may see a revamp soon - if what 'BBC WORLD' says is true, Breakfast is to become newsier, and if another forum member is to believed, can't remember the username, Breakfast's editor won't want Brekkie coming from N24, so if the programme is to become newsier may we see a revamped set with both a desk and a sofa?
SP
Spencer
James Hall posted:
I've trawled the forum, and it's BA's headquarters.


How completely random! Smile
DO
Dog
Breakfast News posted:
Well I suspect that we may see a revamp soon - if what 'BBC WORLD' says is true, Breakfast is to become newsier, and if another forum member is to believed, can't remember the username, Breakfast's editor won't want Brekkie coming from N24, so if the programme is to become newsier may we see a revamped set with both a desk and a sofa?


Interesting what you say about Breakfast coming from News 24. It might well happen....ditch the sofas, the chat, the guests, and have proper news service, from N24, between 6-9.

Why not? Would save a hell of a lot of money.
JA
jamesmd
Back onto set discussion...... anybody think that the older eras of Breakfast Time/News's sets were any good? I personally liked the 1993-1997 version.
SP
Spencer
James Hall posted:
Back onto set discussion...... anybody think that the older eras of Breakfast Time/News's sets were any good? I personally liked the 1993-1997 version.


Wasn't that just the standard 'virtual' BBC News studio of the era?
BN
Breakfast News
James Hall posted:
Back onto set discussion...... anybody think that the older eras of Breakfast Time/News's sets were any good? I personally liked the 1993-1997 version.


'97-'00 for me - desk and sofa mix with Justin and Sophie, and laterly John Nicholson.
TE
TELEVISION
I pretty much agree with everything said here - the set introduced in 2000 was the best. There needs to desk area for the 6 - 8 hour, if not 8.30, then the final half hour could be less newsier, coming from a sofa area. Moira should get a great little area, with a decent background.
R2
r2ro
I think the problem is the absence of warm colours. It's a mixture of red, white and grey which is incredibly cold. They need to fit in with the original Breakfast look of red, orange, yellow and white shown in the title sequence - ever since the major change of the set in July 2003 (when the famous plant pots disappeared) the titles have looked out of place. Modify the 2002-2003 set again and we will have a proper Breakfast once again
JA
jamesmd
r2ro posted:
I think the problem is the absence of warm colours. It's a mixture of red, white and grey which is incredibly cold. They need to fit in with the original Breakfast look of red, orange, yellow and white shown in the title sequence - ever since the major change of the set in July 2003 (when the famous plant pots disappeared) the titles have looked out of place. Modify the 2002-2003 set again and we will have a proper Breakfast once again


That's right, we'll have a proper Breakfast, instead of wanting to chuck it up.

I must say I liked the vases.
R2
r2ro
I did as well. In fact I was a little insulted when Bill Turnbull said that the vases were going with the flowers and that no-one liked them. I think they added natural life into the programme although there was rather a large gap between presenters

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