[DTV]

Wonder if we will even have the outdoor hex map, considering they'd need to have had a new one made for the boundary changes.

The problem with the hex map is that it is one of those election night gimmicks that gets heavily featured in the first two hours when no results are in and is then barely seen for the bulk of the programme. I don't recall it adding much across the elections it appeared and the press release indicated Sophie Raworth, who has previously presided over it, is being used elsewhere this time. Also, given some of the predictions released, wonder if they ordered enough red hexagons back in 2015?

[LDN]

Special European elections programme, 'Europe Votes 2024', on BBC News this evening.

Another miserable BBC News opening title sequence; just some circular shapes and stars moving so. painfully. slowly.
   

...before the programme title finally appeared.
   

All accompanied, of course, by the same used-to-death opening title music used over and over and over again across so many other BBC bulletins every day.

Opening view of the set -- it doesn't look very 'BBC'; but I am getting strong European news channel vibes.
   

One other thing -- I have no idea what purpose this lower-third was supposed to serve:
   

'Europe Votes 2024' should surely be in a programme slug at the upper-right of the L3. And BBC News already has a perfectly adequate way of signalling that a programme is being viewed as-it-happens and on-location: the LIVE and location bugs.

So instead of getting a steady stream of useful details and updates about the elections scrolling through on the L3s, we repeatedly got 'Europe Votes 2024 LIVE from Brussels' on screen for several minutes at a time, including when we weren't actually live from Brussels... as the LIVE/location bugs helpfully pointed out:
   

*sigh*

[GraemeT88]

Very much feels like they’ve borrowed someone else’s set there. Nothing particularly bbc about.

[Brekkie]

Where is that set? Doesn't look familiar at all.

[harshy]

Awful titles music not in synch either just poor but that’s the current standard of BBC News over the past two years.

[sigma421]

Where is that set? Doesn't look familiar at all.

The programme is coming from Brussels - don’t know beyond that.

[Brekkie]

The programme is coming from Brussels - don’t know beyond that.

Ah, missed the subtle clue in the screencaps.

[Stooky Bill]

Every time Nigel Farage is interviewed, or spoken about, they display the full list of candidates standing in Clacton. I’ve seen it on Newsnight, GMB, Laura K etc.

I understand this is within Ofcom guidelines about how election coverage is done. But how come it never happens when Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer are interviewed?

That is a good question.

The BBC have put their election guidelines online here: www.bbc.co.uk 

General Election Guidelines 2024
Homepage Accessibility links Skip to content Accessibility Help BBC Account Noti…
  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

I thought it would be covered in section 4 but it doesn't seem to be.

They're worth a read, interesting stuff

[Deejay]

The programme is coming from Brussels - don’t know beyond that.

It’s a TV Studio at the European Parliament called “The Qube” and is being transmitted to the UK via Eurovision.

[Omnipresent]

ITV has confirmed details of its coverage on Election Night and the following day:

www.itv.com 

ITV announces General Election night plans | Press Centre
Election night ITV has today confirmed its line up for Election night.
  Source: www.itv.com

Tom Bradby - who anchored election nights in 2015, 2017 and 2019 - will again lead ITV's coverage as viewers see the results announced and the emerging political shape of the new Parliament.

Tom will be joined in the studio throughout the night by an unrivalled team of political insider guests including George Osborne, Ed Balls and Nicola Sturgeon for Election 2024 Live: The Results airing on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player.

Also on hand will be ITV News' Robert Peston, Anushka Asthana and Paul Brand plus ITV's leading election analysts Professor Jane Green and Professor Colin Rallings.

ITV News reporters will be on the ground right around the UK throughout bringing news from every corner of the country.

At 6am Good Morning Britain will come on air with Susanna Reid and Ed Balls co-anchoring, with the latter leaving the overnight coverage to join GMB.

The studio will host the best, brightest, most outspoken and listened to political policy makers and commentators in the country including leading political punditry pairing Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire, former PM Boris Johnson's communications chief Guto Harri, Labour veteran Harriet Harman, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, newly enobled Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown who will all join as guests as the show continues to cover up-to-the-minute election news and insights through to 9.25am.

ITV will remain on air from 9.25am with Julie Etchingham leading the coverage. Will Rishi Sunak stay in Number 10 or will Keir Starmer arrive for the first time? Who will be moving into ministerial offices? Dramatic political questions are likely to be answered during the live coverage on Day 2.