New Regional Politics Shows

While most probably shared a similar set (bank of monitors, black curtain), by far the most amusing (if political programmes can ever be amusing) was the effort from Westcountry Tonight - which seems to be anchored from someone's front living room.

Indeed even the name Westcountry Tonight is an odd one for a weekly politicial discussion programme. Moreso when you have the presenter sitting in an easy chair with a bottle of whisky or something and occasionally conducting two-ways with people "in our Westminster studio" through a wideshot of him talking to the living room's TV set.

I'm half expecting the camera to slip downwards to show the presenter in his slippers...

Granada's show - Party People

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Well itv are obviously trying to establish a uniform look for all of its current affairs, political and news programing

Inside Out, meets Politics Show Opt-Outs

Anyone got any caps of Frost's show in London?

Frost Tonight did not follow the look, it was deep navy with pictures of London that folded on and off screen. The set was deep nay as well (or even black) with about 3 or 4 small screens with frozen images in the background.

Here's ITV Yorkshire's offering
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The theme music was some library piece that was once used as breakdown music on one of the major channels

What do the big letters in the background of the titles spell out? I couldn't make it out on the Granada version, but it's the same as what's on the other regions.

Also noticed the style of credits was the new style, with the new ITV font and a blue shadow to the text (background was wide shot of the studio).

It seems the programmes are using the corporate font and the regional colours.

Well never in the world...

That is how the Frost Tonight studio is, but replace the teal green with dark navy blue and your there.

For fook sake why have all the regional political programmes got the same graphics