As its own region, I'm sure that BBC South East should have its own Westminster and documentary series which should start when the new region does, although not living there I don't know anything about the feed or transmitters etc - I just wanted to say that!
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I believe the opt-out switch is actually at Television Centre, and I wouldn't have thought Elstree has any involvement any more since the whole South East output is in 16:9 now, while the Elstree studio presumably had no capability of outputting proper widescreen.
And the new South East region is a complete stand-alone region, so yes, it will doubtless have its own Westminster programme and Thursday report.
I think it is quite possible that BBC South East and BBC London will have separate Thursday Documentaries and Sunday Parliament shows.
However, it is not unheard of for a region to keep these two strands merged even after they have fully split for News.
BBC Birmingham and BBC Nottingham have split totally for Midlands Today and East Midlands Today as news programmes, but they still share Midlands Report and Midlands at Westminster?
These programmes are expensive to make - and more difficult to make 'more local'. There is therefore an argument to keep them shared where the new smaller regions have areas in common.
Another bad night for Newsroom South East tonight (Thurs).
One report failed, leaving Mike Embley looking for the next script.
Then the next report didn't appear
Then they cut to it on a freeze, then it started
Was quite impressed that they had three live links though.