Peston On Sunday

Set and strike is routine for studios that don't have standing sets. This is perfectly normal.

Am I reading correctly that Lorraine, Loose Women and Peston all share the same space and sets are dismantled and put back together daily!?

Peston once a week - but yes. No different to the days when Newsnight, Breakfast, Working Lunch, Sunday AM and The Politics Show shared TC7 at TV Centre with separate sets (in the pre-Barco era)

I don't know how much is common between Lorraine and Loose Women, but I understand they share a studio with Peston.

Wasn't Newsround in TC7 too?

I remember Working Lunch having a weird hybrid of their set and the Breakfast set on one occasion when Stage6 had a power cut and TC7 stayed on air until a Milbank decamp could be put into action, so less time to strike and reset.

There was also an occasion in the Barco era when Breakfast had to use Newsnight's sofa because the scene dock doors had jammed and they couldn't get the right set out.

It does seem like a lot of effort though:

They've been busy all morning @London_Studios rebuilding our set. We stood on the side & made a time-lapse #Pestonhttps://t.co/cfnMugs4rr

— Peston (@itvpeston) May 15, 2016

The Loose Women set clearly easy to take away/put up more quickly - you have to really slow it down to see it.

I completely missed seeing the "walls" of the Loose Woman set and thanks for mentioning that it should be slowed down. If the walls weren't angled when they could just remove the red risers closest to the camera and build the set within the shell of the Loose Women.

I wonder how long it takes to put the Loose Woman set back together? I imagine striking a set is a lot quicker than building it/putting it back together*.

Is there a specific word for building/assembling/putting a set together like strike is for removing one in the tv and theatre world?

In that era it was indeed. I'd missed them out!



There was also a hybrid Working Lunch/Newsnight set in TC11 (which Newsround then rigged a cut down version of their normal set inside of) during the installation of the Barco walls in TC7 when Mon-Fri TC7 shows moved to TC11 for some weeks (which up until then had housed The Seven O'Clock News on BBC Three, and before that Liquid News and Celebdaq as well)

I've often seen the Loose Women set stacked up in one of the storage areas next to the studios. It has clearly been designed with the brief that it needs to be easily dismantled and rebuilt.

As noggin has said, sets that are designed as standing sets aren't as easy to dismantle and rebuild. Sets that are designed to be brought in and out for each show are much more modular and go together like Lego. It's quite routine in production studios. At tv centre as soon as an audience had left, the set was struck, the floor stripped of paint (there was a special ride on machine which did it), any new lamps required rigged and hoisted up, scenery brought in and built. Usually all of that was done overnight, so that by the next morning a final "fine light" could be done and rehearsals started. Quite brilliant to watch and tv centre was perfectly designed for this to happen efficiently, with the scenery ring road and scenery buildings across the way. Quite how this will work when the remaining studios are in the middle of a housing and retail estate remains to be seen. Most people suspect TC2 will end up being used for set storage a lot of the time (it's not going to have a gallery fitted out at first by all accounts).

But far more cost effective than hiring out 2 or 3 studios and all the staff that go with them.

Going off-topic a little, how do the studios at TLS work, do they have dedicated galleries or does the GMB gallery run Lorraine?

Floor stripped of paint? What?

Do they paint the floor with a special stuff on a per-show basis?