Good Morning Britain

I think it'll be the case that people will continue to socially distance from strangers, but less so with friends and family. In TV terms that'll likely see a reduction in the gap between the regular presenters, but guests will remain socially distanced - and this desk clearly allows for that for the foreseeable future.

Re: Australian Breakfast TV - there really hasn't been any social distancing between the presenters there for a long time, but arguably no need for the ones based in Sydney at least. They did spread out more initially - but never anywhere to the extent we've seen here for obvious years. Also of course the distance differs around the world - it is 1.5m in Australia rather than 2m. I imagine we'll return to 1m+ initially.

For several reasons but the main one being it isn't over until the world is vaccinated not just the UK and 131 countries still havn't received a single jab. The virus is also mutating faster than we're vaccinating. This has all been explained but people only hear what they want to hear - it will all be over by June. Everything else, ie reality, is dismissed as scaremongering.

I am going to assume you're talking generally and not directing this specifically at me, since I never referred to scaremongering and merely politely questioned whether there would still be a need for distancing once the UK population has received the vaccine, especially when the government 'roadmap' appears to suggest that, should everything continue to progress as expected, the plans are to lift ALL restrictions in June.
For a huge number of people, the past year has really taken its toll mentally, and it's incredibly important to have a light at the end of the tunnel to look forward to as a coping mechanism. If you can see an end in sight, you can tell yourself that things are getting better and there's reason to be positive. That's why people are latching onto the proposed June 'deadline', because it's helping them get through this horrendous period.

Now they have a great new desk I wonder when social distance finishes if they will re-introduce the sofa for lighter features/ interviews in the show. I use to like it when they moved around the studio for different segments instead of being stuck behind the desk like it is at the moment

Of course the new desk being straighter has made it much easier for cameras to shoot the socially distanced view of the two presenters with the St Paul’s view in the background.

They tried this with the old desk but as the curvature meant that one of the presenters effectively had to sit in front of the other when getting St Paul’s into shot, they soon gave up and just had the screen stacks as the background.

But I’m unsure if the floating rectangles really work. I’m not sure why you’d want to make a London backdrop look obviously fake.

At least we haven’t seen a return of the enormous desk that the Tonight special used with Rageh Omarr a few months back. That really was a huge desk.

Desk is ok, kind of massive though and limits other presentational areas. Thing that bothers me about GMB though is the cluttered screens everywhere and screens on screens. It would look much better if all that was toned down.

They haven't used the sofa much if at all since they moved to TVC. They had a table for a Harry Hill interview but most have been at the desk.

Last time I saw them use it was around Christmas 2019. I've only seen it used a max of ten times (but then again I'm not that regular of a viewer).

Stupid question time again. Given the prominence of the "ITV News" labelling in the latest refresh of the set, would it be possible for the main evening (6.30) and late night (News at Ten) bulletins to be run from there or not. Just that it seems to me three hours of set use in the morning and not much after seems a bit overkill with the constant tweaks.

I doubt this would happen due to practicality (e.g. newsroom being at ITN), but presentation-wise I could easily see ITV News bulletins coming from TC3, even possibly making use of the GMB graphics (with some tweaks such as the logo).

For one-offs like a debate, it's feasible but not on a regular basis. I could envision ITV London using it for a debate for the upcoming Mayoral election since you get all the candidates on the desk.

I've said for ages that I think ITV news should have a massive re-brand, utilising GMB studio and include more on screen graphics like GMB does, but when I mentioned it on here before I got shouted down haha.