[Stockland Hillman]

Is Backstage recoreded in the ITV Wales News studio, or an external/other location?

If it is filmed at their studio, another great example of how versatile and different they can make that studio with a bit of creative thinking. If not, where is it?

Looks like the standard studio set, redessed. The wood laminate podium is the giveaway, under the rug. It's cleaver and effective use of the space.

Baffles me that they can do great things and demonstrate craft skills on these non news shows, but the core Wales at Six is to my eyes the worse produced and directed nations and regions show on ITV.

With solo presentation, you really need to keep the pace with shot changes and movement to cover the segues between stories (and careful producing to ensure long blocks of presenter invison aren't back to back)

There's lots if individual talent there, but something combined just isn't right - how can a news programme in 2024 have the studio production values of 1982 Report Wales