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Surely a set up like the BBC's TC7 would take away from the lifestyle daytime feel of both of these shows.

I imagine a set up where by a simple set could be lit different colours in line with different programmes, and possible the change furniture.

Saying that though, look at a set up such as five where by the news set is placed in front of the live from studio 5 set & simply removed within an hour.

It's not too difficult and indeed used to be quite common for shows to be based in the same studios but have different sets - they can just flip the camera around.

Maybe anoilrag could shed some light on what Kate Garraway's new role will be?

Indeed. But I suppose much as for the reason of the BBC's TC7 set up, they will be looking to cut costs as much as possible.

I do wonder if they will look to do more Loose Women live during the week, especially if the studio will be in operation every day.

Is anybody else wondering what sort of audience that they will get for a live show at 8:30 in the morning for Lorraine.

Has the current series of the 5 o'clock show on Channel 4 been filled in studio 3, as it credits The London Studios, but the set seems too small for Studio 2.

That's perhaps easy enough in a normal studio, but where much of the space is taken up by audience seating, the set(s) have to be in a certain area.

I'm sure that's quite restrictive.

Depends what you are trying to do and what your budget requirements are.

Having two sets in the same studio is a neat solution where you need to use two areas on the same show (say a hard area and a soft area) and need to be able to re-set between them quickly within the same show.

However if you need to make two separate shows on two different sets - then different economics apply. If you are making two different shows on the two different sets - then you are effectively paying for a studio twice the size you need for each show. If you have time to re-set then it is often cheaper to set and strike the two sets and run in a smaller studio. Depends on the timescale, complexity of the two sets, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

It also depends upon whether you are in a real studio or an office-based space, and whether you own the studio (and thus have a fixed space) or are renting a studio (and can rent one based on your space requirements for a specific set)

Well I should think they have enough time - Lorrainnes programme finishes at around 9:25 , and loos women doesn't start untill 12:30 plus it's pre recorded most days, unlike what Lorraines show is going to be - live.

And on the second point well The London Studios is owned by ITV so they can do what the want with it really.

That surely depends on what other commitments have been made for the studio. TLS is a commercial operation. I doubt that Studio 3 is only used for Loose Women at present, it would be quite a waste of resouces if it was!

Yeah obviuosly they have other shows in their, but from searching on Google I think LW is the only real regular show that comes from Studio 3.

and whilst I get your point about other commitments , ITV surely get first choice on who gets it. if they need it for LK's show then surely it'd go before a non ITV show.

Anyway there've obviously sorted whats best for them.

A lot of sport comes from Studio 3 - quite often LW's live/pre-recorded schedule is disrupted/dictated by sport needing to use the studio. I think during the ITV4 cricket a month or two ago it shifted to Studio 2 for the duration, although I could be wrong...

I think they'd rather shuffle their own programmes around to make way for a commercial commitment.

After all, they don't make anything from using the studio themselves, whereas someone else is always going to pay them hard cash to use it!

I dunno if anyone remembers The Show, the series where a chat show presented by Bob Mills was interspersed with behind the scenes footage (here's an article I wrote about it ages ago - http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?page_id=427). That was an LWT production, but one week they couldn't use their usual studio at LWT and had to go to BBC TV Centre. I think the show that turfed them out was a BBC show.