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This topic http://www.palatinate.net/tvhome/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=87 got me thinking...
Can we try to establish here how the various regional parliamentary programmes (Sunday afternoons) and regional documentaries (Thursday nights, I think) present themselves?
'Midlands @ Westminster' covers both the BBC Midlands and BBC East Midlands region. It uses the MT set in Birmingham, albeit modified.
The window has a bizarre view of Westminster. The parliament building seems quite distant and it looks a bit like the camera is partially hiding behind a bush! The whole picture is slightly blurred/'soft-focused' and tinted mid-purple.
The section of wall used for weather CSO on MT is replaced by a dark purple wall. Pale purple lights shaped to look like the Big Ben clock face are shone on that bit of wall, and a second one is shone on the ivory wall on the opposite side of the desk.
'Midlands Report' usually serves both the MT and EMT regions, but occasionally there are separate variations. The way such occasions are layed-out in Radio Times suggests that the separate topic for the East Midlands doesn't have 'East' tagged onto the title. In practice this is not an issue, because by the time that occasional separate EMids documentaries were introduced, Midlands Report stopped having a title sequence identifying it as such.
Each edition has either a simple caption or a lame attempt at a title sequence (unique in look, music etc to that one edition) with the indivual episode title, which is drawn from the subject matter.
Can we try to establish here how the various regional parliamentary programmes (Sunday afternoons) and regional documentaries (Thursday nights, I think) present themselves?
'Midlands @ Westminster' covers both the BBC Midlands and BBC East Midlands region. It uses the MT set in Birmingham, albeit modified.
The window has a bizarre view of Westminster. The parliament building seems quite distant and it looks a bit like the camera is partially hiding behind a bush! The whole picture is slightly blurred/'soft-focused' and tinted mid-purple.
The section of wall used for weather CSO on MT is replaced by a dark purple wall. Pale purple lights shaped to look like the Big Ben clock face are shone on that bit of wall, and a second one is shone on the ivory wall on the opposite side of the desk.
'Midlands Report' usually serves both the MT and EMT regions, but occasionally there are separate variations. The way such occasions are layed-out in Radio Times suggests that the separate topic for the East Midlands doesn't have 'East' tagged onto the title. In practice this is not an issue, because by the time that occasional separate EMids documentaries were introduced, Midlands Report stopped having a title sequence identifying it as such.
Each edition has either a simple caption or a lame attempt at a title sequence (unique in look, music etc to that one edition) with the indivual episode title, which is drawn from the subject matter.