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I think you are missing my point. Holby is shot 'location-style' at Elstree i.e. in real buildings made to look like real hospital locations - i.e. they would look real if you were standing in them!

Grange Hill was shot 'studio-style' at Elstree, where scenery flats were used in large TV studios to create spaces that looked like class-rooms 'on-camera' but would have been obviously fake (with no ceilings etc.) if you were stood in them!

I don't look at that as a joke to be honest. If I (as a production team member) was using the architecture of a building as my 'set' I'd certainly be crediting the architect over the guy who decided what desk to use and where to put it!

And unusually Question Time ditched their usual set flattage to feature St Pauls more.

They're more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.

The Big Questions ought to do that too!

Apart from the location name on the floor, its so tightly shot, it could be anywhere!

I've just seen an advert on BBC News advertising programmes airing "this January". How does a mistake like this happen; I'd have thought old stuff would be removed from the playout system?

Well it shouldn't be scheduled but perhaps it was just played as a last minute filler without anyone realising until it was too late.

The News Channel doesn't have a proper dedicated playout suite AFAIK, it doesn't have a dedicated TX operator or director dealing with the interstituals.

Thanks for that. It crashed into Breakfast about halfway through so it seemed to be in place of the countdown.

Nice to see the BBC glass blocks as the Ten o'Clock news handed over to BBC Wales Today this evening.

I've just stumbled across some of the original 2006 BBC One idents, seemingly from BEFORE they were finalised. They're all slightly different from what made it onto air, whether it be the soundtrack or the footage (most notably with Kites - a right mess!). They were uploaded by the person who claims he composed the music, so he probably received pre-production idents to work with, hence some of the differences. Interesting to compare and contrast what was finally shown with these ones.

You can view them here: http://www.youtube.com/user/imranmusictv/videos?query=bbc+one

Imran Hanif did indeed compose the music for the original 2006 idents (before David Arnold did the 2009 re-edits), so I think these are pre-production idents, as you state.

The Kites visuals do look bit erratic and not as clear-cut in motion with just those tiny little ones flying about; the final version looks much better, so well done on that.

The first thing that stands out with the tracks (bar Bikes) is that it's purely the music with no sound effects - but there are indeed also little changes in sig tune timing and instrumentation here and there...

I'm not sure about that odd single bell in Hippos (and this track appears to use to short version's arrangement for the form-up portion?), but I do like the soft mallets at the start of Moon, without the plucked strings. And similarly, I think Football sounds a lot more interesting with the original percussion there - IMHO they should've left that in.