The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

It looks like the real life background they have in the Granada newsroom.

Interesting they are doing a proper stand this year, at one time just the preserve of the BBC.

A bit of a cock up getting the weather from Leeds just now so Shirley Henry gainfully read the weather summary from a piece of paper. Like the old days!

Jon Mitchell has picked a good week to go on holiday!

Yesterday they managed to get Amanda Houston to do a ‘weather chat’ down the line, talking about the heatwave, but on the other two days we’ve just had a standard forecast with Helen Plint

Look North 'Ull's studio is looking incredibly tired now.

All uncle Peter needs is a comfy chair and a fireplace though.

I agree. A decade of that set now so certainly time for a refresh.

The problem is that the studio space is so small you cant really get a curved set in. Its a stupid triangular shape totally unsuitable for a TV studio.

Can they afford to decamp from Queenie's and move somewhere else? Does seem to all have been done without any thought as to studio space needed.

A brand new studio building yet no proper decent sized studio. Bonkers. Whatever folk say they do have a good backdrop looking out on Queen's Gardens so no idea why they don't utilise that. I suppose in winter with the dark nights isn't brilliant.

The only large area which is underused (not that any of the building has suitable space) is on the ground floor in what was the opencentre / foyer. You would have to have the set shoved up against the radio studios windows.

The building was designed as apartments and retail space. It was only built there as the BBC was going through its ' get closer to the people' phase. They couldn't change the external plans so the interior of three floors of retail spaces were hastily redesigned.
There is no money to move the studio anywhere - they would be better to shut it down and make the programme in Leeds with a short opt.
I remember before they built the place it was the a 1960's office building for Customs & Excise - it had a strange aircraft control tower type thing on the top of it. Sadly I cant find any pictures of it but for anyone interested here are a few pictures before all that The BBC building is where all the huts are.

Since the Reith introduction I haven’t seen a presenter name caption on Look North Yorkshire.

I know who Amy Garcia is, but not everyone will.

Fair point - wasn't Hull the first of the N6 lookalike sets? How many other than Leeds have already been replaced?

That second picture shows the location of the Princes Quay Shopping Centre, not the BBC building.