This Morning

Edit, I misread that question.

It looks lime tm have ripped out the old granny flat in the old hub.... today it's being used as a room for the face lift item.

Last Thursday it was used for alternative exercise. They'd put back in the stripped wallpaper corner covers from the hub too.

Seems like someone has been reading too much 50 shades of grey, there's two items on sex toys this morning!

Does anybody know what happened on This Morning? Just saw the end of an interview with Bear Gryllls and the main window looks smashed and glass is all over the studio floor. They just showed the window boarded up after the break.

It was a stunt - Grylls climbed up a rope to the studio level and smashed through the window. Presumably the window had been replaced with sugar glass, or something of the like . . .

The window had been replaced. they showed a wide shot which had the sofa window and the kitchen window in at the same time. You could very easily tell that the kitchen window was a lot darker and window panes of the sofa window were thinner.

Thanks very much bbcsport and HarryBNF.

I see DigitalSpy have some behind the scenes photos from outside:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/fun/news/a628741/see-bear-gryllss-dramatic-glass-shattering-this-morning-entrance.html#~p4aNRboKeoWVyJ

I'm guessing that the darkened windows are used for sunny days as that sugar glass made the outside look wonderful in comparison to the darkened kitchen window.

The windows are darker because they are mirrored when looking at outside so that the people walking past outside on the South Bank so they are not distracted and attracted to stare in through the window during broadcast.

I don't think that is the reason - it is more likely to be that ND or Rosco perforated filters are being used on the windows to cut down the daylight coming in through the studio windows (to avoid having to use excessive light levels to match unfiltered daylight in the studio). As a result from the outside the studio lights coming out will appear darker, and because the relative light level outside is higher, the windows will appear mirrored.

If you look at any NDed windows you see the same effect.

Sometimes on really dark winter mornings you can barely see outside the window.