the great big BBC News studio shuffle

Two weeks to build a new set!

Given that most set changes involve installing panels, flooring etc. that have been made to measure off-site, this change must represent major structural changes.

There shouldn't be any time spent doing what was done for the new News 24 studio in terms of maintenance, air conditioning, lighting updates etc....they could be doing this now betweeen bulletins as the studio isn't used 24 hours a day).

This must be a very major change in studio floorspace or use, to justify the hastle of shifting around so many programmes for two weeks.

Or they're installing new gallery equipment and don't trust themselves to use it properly for two weeks.

That's two weeks to strike the old set, give the studio a bit of a clean, set the new one, set up the lighting, do some pilots, and give the crews a day or two off in there too.

Not unreasonable, is it?

Besides, you can't exactly launch a new set in the middle of a week either. It just wouldn't look right.

Overall all the changes will take more than two weeks - although some of them might happen in that timescale

That's confused me!

The way Broadcasting House is shaping up both Grade and Thompson will be drawing thier pensions before its finished. If management could actually make up its mind what it wants the contractors might be able to get on with the job. The changes have already cost millions.

Sets are relatively cheap compared with everything wlse that is needed for a studio. TV news going to BH is a long way off. The building that is on the site hasn't been vacated, let alone knocked down!

So whats going to be happening set wise in the temporary studios? Are they going to actually move the current sets into different studios, or are they going to build something temporarily?

Here's a silly question, but would it not be completely beyond the bounds of acceptability to use News 24 for all the Nationals for the few weeks instead of lugging the set over to T7 for what will be such a short period? As shocking as it may be to most of us here , the majority of viewers probably wouldn't even notice...

Ah, but then N24 has no fall back if it wants to leave BBC1 bulletins for breaking news then does it.

And it would also cause serious problem either side of the bulletin and opts etc, it could be done but i'd be a alot of trouble!

Remember that N6 is not just used for the nationals - Have Your Say, Newswatch, HARDTalk (and Extra, and Extra Time), Head 2 Head, and other bits of green-screen recording take place there.

Just out of interest which studio was used for the 1993 virtual studio?