Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

I've not got very far through so far, but there's a good selection of behind-the-scenes pics from TVC covering 25 years at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rugbymadgirl/collections/72157633080587862/

Did anyone else notice that the water tasting bit on Breakfast this morning came from a lounge which appeared to be in front of the BBC Arabic Newsroom?

She went with, "We're live - as usual - for the next sixty minutes."

Watchdog also had a new (or at least the first time I've seen it) production credit - BBC Features Production London, presumably related to departments moving out of TVC?

On Sunday, Points of View ended with "BBC Northern Ireland Features Production" as the endboard.
Casualty was a "BBC Cymru Wales Drama Production".

Didn't Points of View used to be a Birmingham production?

Used to - along with a lot of things...

Destroying Quality First

I think Crimewatch was a BBC Cymru Wales Features Production.

Moved from this series. I noticed on the last episode that they've also replaced the BBC logo on the titles with the BBC Northern Ireland logo, which is a bit distracting for my liking unlike the simple BBC logo on its own.

Yup, switched over this run. All production at Birmingham has stopped now

All non-drama Network production isn't it? Doctors and other daytime network drama is still made by BBC Birmingham - it's the factual department (which used to produce Points of View, Sky at Night, Coast, Countryfile, Gardeners World etc.) which has closed - with the bulk of productions moving to Bristol.

Watchdog's production department wasn't based at TVC - they were only there for the studio days (and for some series picture editing was also there).

The bulk of the production teams were based in the Media Centre (after moving out of White City - aka White City One) but Watchdog has now moved to Broadcasting House with most of the rest of the London Factual department (including Science, Arts etc.)

AIUI the new end boards are a result of the total restructuring of BBC Vision - where the production departments are now managed by pan-regional "genre groups" (i.e. Science, Art, History, Features etc.) rather than by individual genre groups in each region/nation as before. This was an aim to reduce the number of managers and to co-ordinate internal production - as part of Delivering Quality First (I think)

So, for instance, now whether a science programme is made in London or Scotland, it is effectively made by the same "genre department" (BBC Science), with a single head of genre, though it may be made by a different team in the department based in a different geographic location.

Presumably the BBC is no longer embarassed by how many programmes it makes in London (which is what BBC Productions used to be shorthand for) so is happy to put London on the end boards?