TOTP New Look!

The piano keys were probably from Later With Jools which shares the same studio.

Thats it ! I couldnt remeber what show was rehearsing in the studio at the time but it was Later With Jools, it was very dificult to see from the viewing gallary

There is NO way that logo is changing!

Going large, eh? This should be good. :

The new 'Star Bar' sounds like quite a good idea. I wonder if they'll have a completely new tune to the programme?

The logo isn't changing ... there was a lot of black and white elements when i passed the studio yesterday.
Lots of our 60seconds team went to the after show party and had a whale of a time with Steps/S Club 7/Westlife/Jimmy Saville etc.
There will be a section in the show called Liquid News @ TOTP which Dermot O'Leary will present and will include the weeks film, showbiz and entertainment stories.
A few more details are on the 60 seconds web site ... Liquid did a report from bhind the scenes last night.
www.bbc.co.uk/60seconds

Looks like James Hadfield should top himself as it is now in widescreen - as Nelson in The Simpsons would say, 'Ha Ha!'.

Sorry but i was relying on what it said on the BBC website! I tihnk we should be allowed to have some 4:3 programmes because very few people have widescreen sets (its slighly more than 1 in 4) and black bars and/or cropping are not pelasent sites for anyone. I guess Coronation Street will hang on a bit longer (about 9 months is my bet), but how long?

What is everyone on about - TOTP is now in widescreen - on my analogue 4:3 TV i have those telltale blackbars across the top and bottom and thier aston has been made smaller.

james

I've never liked widescreen TV since it started being used more, I prefer the 4:3 format, it's just perfect for my liking, like said the majority of people still have 4:3 sets and what is the point with terrestrial channels brodacasting so many things in widescreen if many people in the country do not have widescreen sets!

I watched the 'new' TOTP on Friday night via Sky Digital channel 101, and it was in 16:9 widescreen (cuz that's how I have set my digibox).

I presume that on analogue terrestrial it was in 'composite' (14:9)?????

The existing graphics/logo etc remained. They didn't even have a new title sequence created fron scratch. They used the existing one (despite the fact it had been created in 4:3) and 'mirrored' it to fill out the sides.

The rumour about Coronation Street is that they cannot go widescreen until they re-build their interior and exterior sets.

The current exterior sets are not full-scale - they aren't tiny - but only 75-80% real size. Also the interior sets are quite compact - so shooting in widescreen would be more difficult, as they are more likely to 'shoot off' the edges of set, and it would be more difficult to get clean shots. (People have to be a bit further apart in widescreen - so sets need to be bigger etc.)

I believe that some of the space that used to be occupied by the Granada Studio Tours (which has now stopped?) is being used to allow for larger sets - and also more permanent sets - which were needed to allow for the extra episode. (There was no longer time to rig and then strike the less frequently used sets, cos they were needed more often...)

(Incidentally this also happened with Eastenders going 4 days a week. They needed more permanent sets, so are expanding at the Elstree site into the TOTP space.)

I thought TOTP Goes Large was rubbish