Daybreak - the launch onwards

Wouldn't it make complete sense for Daybreak and This Morning to swap studios?

This Morning could take full advantage of the skyline view as it will always be light during their broadcasts, plus with the range of guests the show has, I'm guessing This Morning clips do well online / are sold internationally? It would give it much more of a flagship feel.

Meanwhile, Daybreak would benefit from the smaller window during dark hours which, judging by the smaller view and the fact that everything is much closer to the window, would be easier to artificially light during hours of darkness with a few floodlights in key places.

I completely agree with this.

Seems like a good idea, but what reasons are there to prevent that? I can't see much costs but the sets do not match so that would have to change and costs would be from that.

That actually seems really logical. It would be a further nail in the coffin for Daybreak, who prided themselves so much on that studio and its London skyline view.

How rude!

At 7am this morning, Lucy was on the balcony doing the weather and it was really light outdoors. I see no reason why they do not lift the blinds from 7am onwards now. The studio just looks awful at the moment - there's way too much yellow/orange with the blinds down for the whole show.

To be honest, IMO, if they are not going to bother with the London skyline view and just leave the blinds down then I do not understand why they don't go back to presenting from in front of the video wall as they trialled from Sept 2011 - but for the whole show because that looked a hell of a lot better.

Ah they were up at 6:50am - but good shout though.

Except Studio 8 (at nearly 3,000 sq ft) is almost 50% bigger than the 2,000 sq ft available for Daybreak in Studio 7.

This Morning has a few different areas with different sets (for cookery items, soap review, general discussion etc) and there isn't the space in Studio 7 to accommodate all of these. I think it would look very cramped if they tried!

But some of those areas could be cut down to the same, showbiz etc all could come from 1 main set with the London view behind, perhaps changeable so it is rotated for a different view different days? The performance area would just need changing and news/sport area changing to food/cooking or where the news used to be so there is a view?

No don't try anr ruin two programmes. Daybreak may be going down but this Morning is not going with it! This Morning is working perfectly fine in its current location and doesn't need the changes outlined.

my post wasn't changes, they were ideas of how to fit the current this morning programme, many sets, into the small Daybreak Studio 7. It will never happen, trivialmatters proposed the idea and it just made a lot of sense presentation wise with the skyline view.

I agree. This Morning doesn't need to be changed, it's quite a good programme in the format it has: it's designed to be watched in full, not like the repetitive 30-minute format of Daybreak, and needs the different areas to emphasise the various themes of the programme.

Perhaps it would be better if Daybreak gave up on the London skyline view and moved back to Studio 5. I always thought that the original GMTV set in 1993 was better than anything they created later.

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