[Keith]

Maybe a good starting point but as a studio it's attrocious. House lights reflecting, desk to small for the chair, generally looks like a meeting room converted studio.

That being said the background, if the house lights weren't reflected, would look far better than the current regions backing.

I think the main issue with the current ITV regional news studios is the backwall. Currently there's essentially 3 large screens in landscape form, with large black space top and bottom which reflect studio lights in wide angles. Replacing those screens with ones which fill the full height and remove the black space would be a big improvement.
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