ITV London Tonight

Shut up now.

Theatre of News of news set was also for the ITV News Channel operation, so much greater flexibility would have been needed. When this set was built it would have calculated whether there was a need for more room round the desk based on the format of the bulletins.

If they wanted more space there was nothing to stop them chucking in a couple of extra benches.

As has been said, one studio, two sets, two programmes.

My thinking was also the multipurpose set on Sky News (Sunrise, Press Preview etc) but yes, it is two separate sets, for two separate programmes.

The fact there are 2 sets in the same studio is irrelevant. In every gallery there are lots of different sources that can be put on air.... but only one is correct!

It could have been a outside line or a camera pointing at the same set, the mistake is no less worse

And do we know what's going into Studio 4?

I wonder why they all don't come from the London set now there in the same studio! Obviously before it was for practically reasons as the Presneter couldn't travel between floors but now surely it's just a case of walking over?

using the logic of DanielK I think Central Tonight should have had a closing shot that backed into the CITV set, because, erm, its the same studio, and erm, yes.

A year or so ago I was thinking 'I wish Newsnight would switch their graphics to the Newsround ones at the end of the programme because they share a studio'.

There is more than just the presenter walking over, cameras etc would have to be repositioned, presumably it's easier not to do this for a short bulletin. The late bulletin may be an exception with more staffing.

I don't know, but I really wouldn't be surprised if it gets mothballed like Studio 5 (well, PCR5 is mothballed, but the actual studio has been converted back to offices). There are no ITN programmes that don't have a home and so as part of the cost cutting exercise I imagine it would be taken out of service until some point in the future.

It's almost the end of an era for Studio 4. We had a discussion about ITN studios a while back and I found out that an atrium-side Studio 3 did exist which was used for the Early Evening News (and possibly News at Ten) in the early/mid 1990s. My best guess is that Studio 4 came into being some time around 1995 when all the bulletins except NAT adopted Big Ben branding. They were definitely in Studio 4 on the ground floor as you could see the main reception on the other side of the atrium behind the presenters. And since then it's been in near constant use for the ITN News Channel and London Tonight.

It's amazing and really quite sad how much ITN's news operation has shrunk in the past 20 years. Back in the early 90s it was producing literally dozens of programmes a day: in addition to the regular ITV, C4 and C5 bulletins which exist to this day, it also had World News, The World This Week, The Parliament Programme, Channel 4 Daily, The Time The Place, Sunset & Vine, 5 News Early (not to mention many more C5 bulletins than it does now)... and the list could probably go on. It's sad that everything's been pared back so much that only 3 studios are used a few times a day and when C5 eventually move out, it'll only be Studios 2 and 6 which will be needed on a daily basis without any new contracts etc. I know ITN are branching out into online media, archives and things, but it's sad that its TV news operation is only a shadow of its former self.

Well they COULD go through the wall into the empty set store that's Studio E I suppose, as it;s technically the same studio!

6.15 and I think there have been three packages so far.

Looks like they're making the most of London Life Correspondent Ben Scotchbrook before he takes redundancy.

Will we even have a 'London Life' correspondent once he goes?