[interestednovice]

They’ve done well with what they have, and to most people the shorter tower won’t be noticeable.

As ever with this studio though, the issue remains the ceiling height and lighting grid, and there is no way to resolve that without possibly cannibalising the floor above. NBH studios take up two “floors” to achieve full height (Studio E is two stories high) so that’s really the only way. Maybe in many more years lighting can be made more compact, so perhaps at the next refresh they may be able to mitigate it further. But they’ve done pretty well and I think it looks a lot better than the previous set which always “felt” awkward to me as a viewer. Despite the relatively small space and low height, this set doesn’t actually look awkward on screen. That’s a success in my view.

Interesting that there is a green-screen area set up outside the “edges” of the set in the same studio. Presumably if the LEDs suddenly failed, they could present from that area with a virtual set (which is useful) or even pre-record segments there, such as the weather forecast.

The moiré issue must be at least part of the reason why Look Levy has now started having the weather forecast on the screen “down the line” from a separate weather studio; with the presenter not actually in the studio the shot can be tweaked to make the effect less noticeable as they can use a bit of a better angle. The bonus is it facilitates Levy banter too, of course!