A question of sport

Having the audience close behind the teams did provoke banter and reactions between them.

As noggin says, the distance between the teams will make 'banter' difficult as well, only time will tell.

For me, no thanks.

It's too glitzy, less human, less blokes (and ladies) in a "pub-quiz" format.

It was a good show, once.

And as for the screens behind the participants? Horrible! It was bad enough when there was one behind SB last season, but they are all over the place.
Picture quality? What picture quality!
I think I'll switch the colour off- and that's progress!

there is a audience behind the teams look above the lcd's

Yes, but they are so far away, and there is the monitor bank between them. The old set had the public 'there' and the teams could hear whispers.

No matter. The teams will not have the same feel for them, however I am not there anymore, so I can't comment.
All I can say is that:-
a) the time slot takes away the family viewing profile
b) the set is impressively horrible. It's like SKY News with the chroma turned up beyond 'full'.
c) the LCDs behind the participants. Simply grotesque- blocky, blurry, distracting.

Watching tonight I first thought that the LCD screen behind most of the set has gone already and been replaced with a printed screen. Much easier on the eye!

After a few more minutes is seems that they may be using a finer LCD mesh instead with a static background. Between rounds they have moving text so looks like it's still LCD panels.

Either way - it's much better! The audience seems more illuminated too

Yeah, the producer was on Points of View the other day and basically admitted all the problems with the set.

Think you mean LED not LCD?

What - they didn't just say all the viewers were wrong as usual then!

Nope I was quite taken back with the candidness. But clearly that just means they realised it looked rubbish before the first episode even aired.

The set was much improved by the second show. Are these filmed close to transmission to enable the changes?

Is this the first series to add comedians/standard presenters to the panels rather than all sports personnel?

Not sure - but the changes wouldn't have to be dependent on transmission. They could easily have been fed back to the set designer etc. after the first recording, even before editing.

any pics to compar so we can see how it looked on the 1st show and the 2nd

Haven't seen QoS for a while but noticed that they've given the set another tweak and it's very acceptable now, with the the audience back behind the teams, and the ugly screens banished.