Sky News Mini re-launch

I am telling you - there will be changes to the on-screen look.

Not in the next ten minutes, not in the next hour, but there will be changes. Soon.

Wait.

The relaunch in 2001 wasn't rushed as such. The studio had been under construction well before September 11th, I think they just moved into it more rapidly than had been anticipated. The revamped graphics came later, in time for the war.

So in a few hours then? You make it sound like the changes will be coming tomorrow morning. Surely if they weren't you would have included 'not tomorrow, not next week' etc.

Interesting!

What's Keith Graves' role at Sky these days? Is he involved in the setting up of the new India bureau?

Oh, do f uck off and stop being so silly.

They are making changes. I don't think even they have a specific date as to when they're going to make them because, frankly, they actually have to make the stuff before they can put it out on air.

They don't magic it out of a little machine, you know. It needs to be designed, then made, then tested, then put to air, then tweaked.

Honestly. Stop being so bloody impatient. Anyone would think it were a matter of life or death.

Get a sense of perspective here, will you.

I dont care if they have a new look at all. And language for heavens sake! I was just commenting on the way you phrased it.

I well know that changes take time, but with not having any links with sky how would I know that they didnt start planning and designing months ago?

In that case, dear, you should be in the real world living a real life.

For most people on TV Forum, such things dominate their entire lives.

To return to this saddo fest of studio design - picking up on the thread that Mr West started in error...

Interesting to see them using the Westminster newswall with their live Big Ben camera giving the impression of a giant window, looks really impressive.

Will be interesting to see how Littlejohn works tonight. The trailers for it stand in the crapness stakes alongside the Princess Diana death trailer (crassly boasting of being the first in the world to tell you she'd popped it, only days after her death), and the Francis Wilson pervert one.

Afraid I cannot take Richard Littlejohn seriously as a journalist. His whiney little voice and frankly unchallenging questions. Like people have said - I thought 3D was leagues ahead of Littlejohn in the entertainment stakes... which is all they are, entertainment.

Hope they do make more use of the Westminster studio, though. Would be nice to see them using it a lot more often because it seems such a waste only using it for 30 minutes every day.

Any more info on the "revamp at sky news center studios"

Have you actually read the thread?

I'm slightly confused.

The new, fab Westminster studio, with the mini newswall: am I right in saying that it comes from Millbank, where the old "Sunday with Adam Boulton" came from?

Also, the blue-ish background, which they use for down-the-line interviews from Sky Centre, is marked as being from "Westminster": is this actually from Millbank, from their new studios, or from separate, smaller premises in Westminster?

And I presume that the background similar to the "Sky News Today" globe, (marked as "Central London") comes from the same place as the blue-ish background? (I.e. the two backgrounds are used interchangeably.)

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I like what they're doing there, but the effect is rather ruined in full screen by camera shake and fuzz. It's OK in a box, not full size. But I can cope. I can cope.

Millbank is in Westminster. The Millbank media centre is across the street from the Palace of Westminster. Millbank is the name of the street, and is used as a shorthand for the building where most broadcasters have their Westminster base.

Map: www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530169&Y=179278&A=Y&Z=1

C@t, you really do need to get out more.

You claim "most" peoples lives on this forum are dominated whether Sky News has a new look or not.

Does it really matter? Do you think we care that you come across all high and mighty and terribly pompous because you have a tiny bit of information?

If anything, it's your life which seems to be dominated by such trivial matters. Gay sex and Sky News - the two most important things in your life, cat - and it seems that the two often overlap.