BBC Breakfast

Instead of making such a comment, please explain why you feel this either wouldn't work or couldn't be achieved.

How on earth can you make a statement like that given the program had only been on air 5 mins when you had posted that.

I thought it looked ok on screen this morning from the little bit that I saw. As with all new shows (I say new show because to the people working there its all new) it will take time to settle down. Once people become used to the surroundings etc I'm sure we will see tweaks an changes as required.

I agree that it needs time to work out the issues, but is that not the point of them being up in Salford last week, and probably even longer than that, to test the studio, set everything up and run it 'on-air' but off alongside TC7?

It is only one hour on BBC1, so perhaps so.

From what I've seen I've little to add here - the background images are an improvement over the dull grey in TV Centre - but the framing of them within the studio makes them look cheap really, and from the caps here none of the camera shots look that great. Considering how cramped the set is ditching the one large sofa in favour of either a broken sofa arrangement (one for hosts, one for guests ala Daybreak) or chairs might make it seem a bit bigger, but not much. Perhaps they'd have been better off sharing with BBC Sport instead - or even Blue Peter, though I guess BP might share with Newsround/CBBC?


I guess now the old Breakfast/Working Lunch/Newsround/Six/Newsnight studio only has the latter two in during the week.

They can do as much rehearsing & testing as they like, it's still never quite the same as when the studio comes into permanent use. You only have to look at what happened at Terminal 5 when that opened. The baggage system had been tested & tested until they could test no more before it opened and it still fell over within a few days. I reckon Breakfast within a few weeks will feel like its always been where it is now.

A hairy cornflake from yesteryear (thank god).

Good point, and one I haven't seen mentioned here. Would anyone be using the sports studios at that hour of the morning? Why can't Breakfast go there instead of being in converted office space?

With the new studio for Breakfast noticeably smaller than the old TC7 version - out of interest, how much smaller is it? Half the size, or size of TC2?

The "studio" is not befitting for a national news breakfast programme from the BBC frankly. It screams small and local. Despite that, to be fair, I think they've done a fairly decent job with the space they had.
I've just watched the mock by Martin and, somewhat unbelievably, it's vastly superior to the actual titles.

Yes it's smaller...but to be fair, no news programmes needs a space the size of TC7. I think the only reason that studio 7 was chosen in the first place was that it could accommodate a number of different standing sets at once, which of course by the end it wasn't doing as they all used the same one, so had a vast expanse of space. It's just two people sitting on a sofa, you don't need an aircraft hanger to do that.

As stated before this is a TV Presentation forum. The presentation of the programme at that stage had already exhausted every shot available, and it looked terrible (the presentation was off).