BBC News @ 6: Behind the Scenes

I remember this at the time but for those who never saw it, an interesting behind the scenes video of the BBC News at Six....

^ Fascinating. Haven’t seen that before. The banter between Media Boy and everyone is lovely. Matt Taylor and Sonic Sophie.

A finely tuned machine that runs perfectly.

Thanks for sharing.

Its nice to see the BBC showing how good they are

Feels like ages ago they did that now.

I thought this was interesting regarding the 6pm BBC news.

So now that the NC comes from studio E during the 5 - 6pm hour, how does the team for the 6 rehearse?

They’re probably pros at it now. They could read copy at their desk or if they wanted to see it in a prompter try a DTL studio.

Plus a lot of the things that used to be rehearsed and/or recorded in that time-slot - like reporter Big Screen presentations are much rarer because there are fewer items with 'studio production', and far more 'location graphic' type sequences (all the David Shukman, Hugh Pym and Fergus Walsh stuff standing near walls where graphics appear for instance)

In short, they don’t. A headlines read through is sometimes done shortly before TX in one of the galleries that’s not being currently used, and any complex gfx sequences can be checked then as well. Otherwise, it’s just down to the director and the producers to check as much as possible without actually doing a gallery run through.

Thanks for sharing that, I've never seen it before and found it really interesting.
At the very end they said they would like to do the 10 as well, did that ever happen?

Another good video from BBC Oxford:

A certain gentleman of this Parish, I believe.