Peston On Sunday

Indeed they do. Studio floors are usually matt grey, with fire lanes around the edge of the studio painted red. Paint is applied as part of the setting and some incredibly complex effects to simulate wood flooring and so on are often incorporated before the rest of the set has gone in. As soon as the set is struck, the paint is all washed off, as it's water soluble I believe.

The former BBC studio centre in Birmingham, Pebble Mill, actually gave it's name to a type of paint which could be peeled off - Pebble Mill Peelable, which is apparently still available.
http://www.pebblemill.org/blog/pebble-mill-peelable/

EDIT:
It's actually been discussed on this forum before: http://tvforum.uk/tvhome/tales-television-centre-bbc-four-thursday-33278/page-3

This video shows you how it's done:



Even Coronation Street doesn't keep all its sets standing. Some of the sets which aren't seen as regularly are built as and when they're needed. Any laminate flooring or tiles are usually just painted on.

Well done, Whataday - I was trying hard to find the exact same clip!
Until I first saw that segment, I didn't appreciate the work that went into floor painting. A different era I suppose, but Blue Peter were really good at versatile sets, moving elements about depending on whatever needed to accommodated for that particular show. As has been shown, the painted floor could feature quite prominently:

Blue Peter's set was basically a collection of free standing elements, which cold be put together in a different configuration to fit the particular studio they were using for any given show.

Apart from the last few years of being at TVC, when they almost exclusively used TC2, and had a connected set design, which for the last TVC show,in Studio 1 ,looked out of place as they just filled the empty space with a mosh pit of kids and a small stage area.

Yes, that's right. When I was on a BBC Two Sunday morning gameshow (many years ago now) and they were deconstructing the set in TC1 after the live show they washed the floor with an large industrial wet-wash hoover. Was interesting seeing the floor go from blue to grey afterwards.

Here's a link to a company that specialises in laying and refurbishing studio floors which might be of further interest.

http://www.televisionstudiofloors.co.uk/television-studio-floor-installations

I see no-one has answered your question yet. Studio 3 (Lorraine) & Studio 5 (GMB) both have fully equipped production control rooms and are manned and operated independently of each other.

That would only occur on BBC News if they had full graphics up and not just the ticker.

It looks as though they didn't have to repaint the studio floor in TLS3 for Peston. The same colour is used for LW & Lorainne.


In the first part of the video the the studio is lit using the florescent lights, the shadow on the floor is the lighting rig, which is below the florescent lights.

Once the lighting rig lamps are turned on, you can see the the studio floor is already white/grey. I supposed they have to repaint it every so often, just to get rid of marks caused when they are moving sets in/out.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/23/robert-peston-ratings-david-cameron-interview-itv-sunday

Yet its managed to get on a few front pages because of that interview, ITV has to play the slow burner game with this series. Its making news so its win win for now.