BBC Scotland News Thread

Reporting Scotland (extended Lunchtime edition I think) 7th May 2016 (Holyrood Elections) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_8RPNPyJts

Yes, same music, similar title sequence.

Promo now running for 'Timeline'.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08cgtbq

Re-edited titles running today of the special Elections titles seen above ahead of the announcement of indyref2.

Late news extended to a full 30mins.

Did the launch of Timeline go without any mention, or did I miss it? I'm not going to comment on the content but branding/set/graphics wise it looked very nice I thought! The music had the lightest hint of the BBC News David Lowe about it, which I thought was very nice.

But, most impressively, I think the set they're using is a very very VERY heavily redressed Reporting Scotland studio! I may be entirely wrong, but I think they have done a heck of a job redressing the set so it looks almost unrecognisable! Compare this:



with this (from a Street view/panorama thing of BBC Scotland):



...and I would say we're seeing the same basic set, just looking very different, with a new rostrum, some of the screens obscured slightly and a whole load of stuff covering up the lightboxes. If i'm right, this is seriously impressive!

That is impressive. The fact that the shows broadcast live at 1930 makes it even more so - 30 minutes to completely change the set?

It's actually a pretty good show with a good mix of content.

I did wonder myself about the set. I think it is a redressed studio C.

Studio C has two sets, that face each other ('hard' and 'soft'), and more or less look the same. It looks to me
they redressed what's called the 'soft set' ?

Other programme from right hand side. Sportsceen, Sunday politics scotland, holyrood, etc its a well used studio.

Well that makes it much easier And they don't have to race against the clock while leaving parts of it up during Reporting Scotland.

Scotland really does have a nice network set.

I remember when a news programme I used to work on got a new set and I described half of it as 'the soft set' and my boss told me 'we don't call it the soft set because the stories we do from there won't be soft'

As far as I'm aware, Reporting Scotland uses both sides of the set, so Timeline being on must limit Reporting Scotland's use of the set.