BBC News - New Set Or Not

I had that idea but wouldn't it be too obvious that they aren't really there if one of the presenters was interviewing Nick Robinson et al at outside the Palace of Westminster? Mind you, I'm sure they could be interviewed inside instead.

Do we presume you mean presenter reshuffles or is this One O'Clock News 24 simulcast still coming back to haunt us?

I'd like to no what the obsession with rounded desks is. I'm sure, especially in the national set, a rectangular desk would work quite well.

It's this 'plastic is fantastic' era that I hate so much - personally I think all of News 24 looks bloody awful with all that cheapo plastic about, looks like it's made out of 10,000 recycled milk bottles. Likwise seeing the cameras in shot, along with monitors and cabling is horribly naff - ditch all of News 24 as well as National.

The funamental problem with the National is that the scale and design just isn't befitting of its role as the UK's if not the world's flagship newsroom. Rather it's textbook Ikea with all that ghastly laminate flooring in that sickly wishy washy beech. If there's one improvement I'd make it'd be the ripping of this up, and its replacement with a deep red carpet with deep mahongany or walnut (effect or veneer) timber surrounds. A more distinguished timber/glass/metal combo desk other than a perspex cylinder found in an industrial waste facility wouldn't go amiss either.

Coupled with the introduction of some halogen downlighters as per 1999, and as suggested earlier the fading of main lighting at the top and close of bulletins (at least Ten anyway, how we miss that), a world of difference would be made.

No, Breakfast will be moving to the News 24 studio's in early 2006.

The One simularcast between News 24/BBC One has been abandoned.

What I mean is that more programmes will be coming from the National News studios.

I wonder if Working Lunch is one of them?

If Breakfast has to move to an unsuitable studio for cost reasons, then I would imagine that Working Lunch is as well, as that has less of a budget than Breakfast.

Why don't they just switch TC7 to a News 24-style gallery; more automation, less people required, plenty of studio space for sets; a winner all round I would think.

I went on a backstage tour of BBC News and i asked the tour guide if they are going to change N6?He told me that there is no point of revamping N6 as it reacently "adapted" to look similar to News 24 (The Frosted Plexi-Glass and red Staps).

Also there are no plans to change other studios.

Oh course they'd say that!

Impossible for Working Lunch as its transmission times are too close or even overlap the one o'clock news.

So which programmes and what changes will need to be made to the studio?

How will it save money to move Breakfast to the N24 studio? I thought that Breakfast, Working Lunch and Newsnight all shared the same studio - unless they are planning to put something else in there from 6-9am every weekday?