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2019 General Christmas election.

12th December: NO drama just presentation. (October 2019)

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Ben Shatliff
Do we know any details of ITV Election Night and the following day?

Do we assume it will be similar to 2015 and 2017 and the 2016 EU Referendum which in effect caused this and the 2017 Election?
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Markymark
james-2001 posted:
Looks like they rather cheaply just pulled some off-air footage of the BBC parliament repeats for the 70, 74 and 2001 elections there.


The 1997 logo at 1:10 looks like something from Micro$oft
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Steve in Pudsey
Is this pic the Millbank Studio?



bkman1990 and Brekkie gave kudos
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BM11



It would fail but Ofcom might well give clearer election coverage rules.
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NthnRw
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Is this pic the Millbank Studio?




That's the soft side of Studio B used for the local and European elections. Based on other pictures posted today, I think that's an photo from earlier in the year not a rehearsal for December.
Last edited by NthnRw on 4 November 2019 4:58pm
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Ne1L C
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Is this pic the Millbank Studio?





Best man for the job but kudos to David Dimbleby for a hell of a legacy.
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BM11



https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-sky-news-invites-corbyn-johnson-and-swinson-to-live-tv-debate-11854213?fbclid=IwAR2f-eLAgBPaJUoOQC7OYSdHaExA3fcQEijJ4d3JI6qSCsfM8mmQkQJpCK8
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JKDerry
So we can guess Studio B will be used for the BBC election? This might be down to shows booked into Studio D at Elstree, and in a way it would be cost saving for the BBC too, as Studio D is massive and expensive to use.
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gregmc
JKDerry posted:
So we can guess Studio B will be used for the BBC election? This might be down to shows booked into Studio D at Elstree, and in a way it would be cost saving for the BBC too, as Studio D is massive and expensive to use.


Correct. Studio B will be home to the election set this year. Programmes will move out to various other studios across NBH (C, World Service etc).
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News96
BM11 posted:
Blake Connolly posted:
So confirmation that Huw Edwards will be leading the coverage, and Emily Matlis will be in the old Huw role taking over in the morning.

With Clive Myrie.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/election


I'm guessing Christian Fraser must be doing the Friday Night on the NC Then since i'm surprised his name wasn't on the press release.
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chris
gregmc posted:
JKDerry posted:
So we can guess Studio B will be used for the BBC election? This might be down to shows booked into Studio D at Elstree, and in a way it would be cost saving for the BBC too, as Studio D is massive and expensive to use.




Correct. Studio B will be home to the election set this year. Programmes will move out to various other studios across NBH (C, World Service etc).


I wouldn’t be surprised if all goes well, this becomes the norm. I suspect it’s much cheaper!
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JKDerry
Election 1970 was really the start of the BBC's huge studio attitude for general elections. I remember Cliff Michelmore saying the 1970 studio was just far too big, as it was going to be shrunk into a person's television screen anyway and thus pointless - BBC wanted to blast ITN out of the water with their massive sets.

Apart from 1983 and 1987, all of the general election sets for the BBC have been truly massive, making the most of TC1 at Television Centre - however 2019 is a different era now, and the BBC think the age of the massive studio is not needed.

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