the great big BBC News studio shuffle

Just thinking while looking at some pictures of the new studio for Breakfast and some of the clips too.
Couldn't help being creative after thinking of new york.
Keeping with the theme of the national bullitains having a skyline backdrop, would a street scape idea such as the NBC Today studio. It would be computer generated with blurrey people and all moving around and the sky slowly brightening as the morning progresses.
Possibly this being in the corner where the news desk is with the rest being just clouds or the sunrise?

Just an idea I had...I don't really like the clouds at all!

So when she was given her farewell from Breakfast and they said, "We'll be seeing lots more of you..." what they really meant was, "We'll be seeing less of you."

I think that would look a thousand times better than the clouds.

I didn't really like the 'shopping mall' view set but that was a lot better than the backdrop Breakfast have now. Although I think the London view on the nationals is alot better than the cluttered fictional newsroom behined them until last week.

Must admit I did like the use of LondON TV's studio for SundayAM - to me it just a more apt of a studio for that type of show! The backdrop, if anything, was perfect.

was it real (through a window) or screens / cso ala BBC News?

Definitely real.

Problem with putting a streetscape in is that it exposes the fact that the screens are flat. The minute you put something with both foreground AND background elements in a projector based set AND move the cameras vertically you see the lack of parallax, and it all begins to look both fake and odd. People in the foreground and buildings in the background would begin to look quite unconvincing.

So Moira does Sunday AM and the Politics Show bulletins.
Does that mean she is back on the nationals? I am a bit bemused by the spindoctors at the BBC. Has Alistair Campbell joined them??

It was definately said that Moira would be the new regular Saturday presenter.

Err - Moira has done the news bulletins in Sunday AM (and Breakfast with Frost) for years, and she's done the bulletin in The Politics Show for quite a while too. Not sure why this is raising eyebrows - it is the status quo isn't it?

I'm more bumused at the Moira/National/Spin/Campbell link. Who said the collective imagination was dead?

It has been the establishment, virtually since TPS began, that Moira would read the news. She left Breakfast but has retained these weekend duites. Nothing odd about that, if you ask me.