This Morning

Are they qualified enough? Do Richard and Judy have enough interviewing experience behind them for this? 😜😜

Lovely to have them back. Truly.

Great little segment on This Morning a little earlier with Richard and Judy driving round the backstage areas of the studios to go and see Ant and Dec. During it you could see the Lorraine set along the edges, and one thing I saw which I found interesting was a large black sign with the breakdown slide on "We're sorry for the disruption".
I wonder when something like that would ever be used?

I wonder if that might be for an Ant and Dec prank.

Could have been if any of the ITV shows were filming in an area of TVC other people weren't able to go into due to said filming and apologising. Could have been for the tours. Could be anything!

A few days back I was passing along the Southbank and spotted something vaguely interesting at ITV's old home:



(I'm not sure why the photo is displaying rotated, on the Metropol uploader the original file is the right way up!)

Back in the day the glass they used meant you couldn't really see in, but one of the panes looks to have been replaced, showing a sadly empty Studio 7. It's been nearly two years since This Morning left, and whilst they've gutted the set you can see that the cladding (?) around the structural pillars in the studio (which are still part of the set design at TVC) have been left in place. On the other windows you could also see the outline of the wooden frame they'd put in front of the glass to make it look like it wasn't just one big window.

It can be seen here at 2:50 mark:

Definitely looks like something for use on site rather than on screen.

Richard Madeley - only ever about half a sentence away from saying something really awkward

Funnily enough I came across a photo from inside studio 8 from a few months ago:



Kitchen set still intact.

There was a sign writer in there this week in reception area doing a new The London Studios sign.

"If I drive too fast I'll break his leg" is up there with the most sublimely written Partridge.

If it's accidental, then it's very apt- Drop shadow lettering.
As seen on a lot of LWT Entertainment opening titles during the late 70's and early 80's.