Daybreak - the launch onwards

They still haven't done anything when half of the ticker disappears off the screen. It's obvious to see that this is shabby graphics work!

Using that was just to get my point across because it's the same sofa as the first one, just in red. If they had the second sofa in red rather than the one they have now, the set would look ten times better.

The set would look better but the original sofa's low back was obviously proving impractical for daily use.

As to the colour of the sofa, you have to consider what the presenters are wearing. Not many colours go well with the colour purple but most colours go with red.

"Unhealthy" is overstating it. A lot of screen talent make a point of never sitting back in a chair because not doing so makes them look taller and trimmer on screen. Good posture (i.e. sitting upright, using your core muscles to keep you in place) also helps breathing from your diaphragm - which is pretty important if you're waffling for hours.

Adrian is naturally slouches, so it would be tiring for him - nothing more.

Most screen talent doesn't have to spend 650 hours a year sitting in the same position.

You may notice that Bill and Sian always sit right back on the Breakfast sofa.

News channel newsreaders are able to lean forwards a little because the desk in front of them provides support.

Are you quite sure about that?

Any presenter on air that long over a year is likely to be in the same spot, be it at a desk, on a couch, or standing in front of a backdrop. Think about it.

Either way, plenty of broadcasters (and that includes radio) sit upright using no support when they're on air as a matter of habit - its a fundamental voice and breathing technique.

Its not that its simply a "mode" of sitting - it requires effort and strong core muscles, but despite the energy it takes, it staves off fatigue in the longer run and gives you control of your breath, and in turn, your voice. The same technique lets you stand still on stage for 2 hours with a mask on in a never-ending Greek play. That one I've done, and you'd pass out if you didn't use your training.

I'm sure everyone uses the "off" moments they can to relax and sit back for a second.

But Adrian is always r e l a x e d physically. Spreading this way and that, contained only by lacing his fingers over his tummy. At any moment about to snap. Its his style. I don't mind it.

Might not be everyone else's mug of pish, though - first thing in the morning, when they're trying to gather some energy of their own.

Presenters do seem to position themselves very differently particularly at news desks. In studio TC7 the chairs always look very reclined and the presenters tend to perch themselves right on the very edge of the chair. You may as well sit on a stool! Some presenters on the NC do this too, but all it means is you see a lot of the chair instead of the backdrop.

In studio N8 at the BBC as well there is a directly side on camera position. Some presenters seem to move their whole bodies round to face the camera and leaning on the desk, which looks very odd, and some simply turn their heads to face the camera - both look pretty uncomfortable, I suppose it's whatever the presenter finds comfortable.

If you can follow a straight line from their tummy to their solar plexus (the front part of the body below the chest), they're sitting in a position that matches the technique I referred to above.

There you go. Hours of fun watching and checking and jotting that down.

Here, probably.

I'd rather watch paint dry It's just something I'd noticed, maybe we should start a 'BBC News: Presenter Sitting Positions' thread?

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Yes, which was why I specifically preempted your argument by mentioning how newsreaders have a desk to lean on, unlike the Daybreak presenters.

**** it, I'm done with this forum.

I was explaining. Imparting. Discussing. Not necessarily agreeing, but just chatting really.

Not everything is a squabble or serious. Relax. You'll live longer.