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the great big BBC News studio shuffle

Studios now shuffled. (April 2006)

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Steve Founding member
Hymagumba posted:
my favourite part of it was when Moira introduced Gloria Fabulous's new Heaven & Earth show, and then it came on and the titles with Gloria playing god. It was amazing.


Which is now in the big North West Tonight studio isn't it?

Well Gloria Fabulous (TM Hymagumba) needs a lot of room to play God...
SP
Steve in Pudsey
it is? I thought regional and national kept their distance
NG
noggin Founding member
Steve posted:
Hymagumba posted:
my favourite part of it was when Moira introduced Gloria Fabulous's new Heaven & Earth show, and then it came on and the titles with Gloria playing god. It was amazing.


Which is now in the big North West Tonight studio isn't it?

Well Gloria Fabulous (TM Hymagumba) needs a lot of room to play God...


Nope - Heaven and Earth has left BBC Oxford Road (where it used to mainly come from Studio D), and is now at the 3Sixty studios (formerly Granada) at Quay Street I believe.

The move happened when Gloria took over.
JA
jamesmd
noggin posted:
Steve posted:
Hymagumba posted:
my favourite part of it was when Moira introduced Gloria Fabulous's new Heaven & Earth show, and then it came on and the titles with Gloria playing god. It was amazing.


Which is now in the big North West Tonight studio isn't it?

Well Gloria Fabulous (TM Hymagumba) needs a lot of room to play God...


Nope - Heaven and Earth has left BBC Oxford Road (where it used to mainly come from Studio D), and is now at the 3Sixty studios (formerly Granada) at Quay Street I believe.

The move happened when Gloria took over.


What I loved is how Mary Rhodes must have had a heart attack every Sunday racing by train or plane to N6 for the 7.35 bulletin. How pointless having Mary in Mancs and then TVC in the evening!
NG
noggin Founding member
GoAround posted:
It's all a bit too busy, there seems to be to omuch going on. Also, what's the backdrop? Is it the same as the nationals set without the blurriness?


It is the same view that they had previously - Parliament, London Eye, River Thames, stretching out towards the City.

If anything I'd say the new studio was a bit less GMTV than the previous one - which had far more TVam fake-brick.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
New set for Politics Show...
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/politicsshow.jpg
NN
Nutty Northerner
Watching Sunday AM this morning it seemed a little less rushed than the nationals set. They have "disguised" the corners by having a dark coloured stripe. Plus the image is really clear and you can hardly see, or even see any joins between the screens!

Why couldn't they have done such a good job on the nationals set. Mind you its a shame that the 2 studios now look exactly the same, but I suppose it is continuity!
TR
TROGGLES
Nutty Northerner posted:
Watching Sunday AM this morning it seemed a little less rushed than the nationals set. They have "disguised" the corners by having a dark coloured stripe. Plus the image is really clear and you can hardly see, or even see any joins between the screens!

Why couldn't they have done such a good job on the nationals set. Mind you its a shame that the 2 studios now look exactly the same, but I suppose it is continuity!

This sort of stuff goes around in circles and fads. The current thinking is to have one style for current affairs and its linked to ease of use. Everything more or less in the same place. Andrew Marr seemed to have wooden pillars on the set, the politics show has grey ones, newsnight purple who know on working lunch proberbly orange. Then there is the bits of different carpets, rugs, sofas. There must be lots of bits of set & clutter kicking about. We will see how long it lasts before the set dressing starts to look battered or lost. One of the pro's of a permenant set that is fastened down is its difficult to pinch stuff from it or break it shifting it about.
NG
noggin Founding member
TROGGLES posted:
Nutty Northerner posted:
Watching Sunday AM this morning it seemed a little less rushed than the nationals set. They have "disguised" the corners by having a dark coloured stripe. Plus the image is really clear and you can hardly see, or even see any joins between the screens!

Why couldn't they have done such a good job on the nationals set. Mind you its a shame that the 2 studios now look exactly the same, but I suppose it is continuity!

This sort of stuff goes around in circles and fads. The current thinking is to have one style for current affairs and its linked to ease of use. Everything more or less in the same place. Andrew Marr seemed to have wooden pillars on the set, the politics show has grey ones, newsnight purple who know on working lunch proberbly orange. Then there is the bits of different carpets, rugs, sofas. There must be lots of bits of set & clutter kicking about. We will see how long it lasts before the set dressing starts to look battered or lost. One of the pro's of a permenant set that is fastened down is its difficult to pinch stuff from it or break it shifting it about.


Yep - but you couldn't have two identical-looking shows within two hours on BBC One could you?
JA
jamesmd
Ooh, we've juuged up the theme a little bit.
NE
Noelfirl
Charlie Wells posted:


Nice nudge to the White City Municipal Fortress in the background there and what with the logo being visible over Jon's shoulder, it's a whole big love in.
BE
benjy
I thought I was watching GMTV for a moment when I first flicked over to Sunday AM!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41668000/jpg/_41668992_index2_203.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41668000/jpg/_41668734_papers_203.jpg

I think it's the red sofa that does it, along with the colour of the wood they've gone for. Watching the beginning of the programme on the website, though, the wider views of the set do look better.

It is very clever the way they've adapted the new set to look so different for the two different programmes we've seen using it so far. It seems that Sunday AM uses the right hand part of the set, extending outwards from the edge of the screens, whilst the Politics Show uses the left hand side. The screens also look dramatically better than those on the other set. The only sticking point might be how the set could suffer wear and tear quite easily, from its constant dressing and re-dressing, panels and pillars being added and taken off etc. Otherwise, very clever use of the space and the screens.

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