[interestednovice]

So basically a set refresh on a par with when they changed the screens in 2018.

Frankly, for a set that's already more than 11-years-old, this is a missed opportunity and tempting fate a little.

I very much take your point DTV, however I suspect with BBC finances as they are this was still seen as, overall, cost effective. I imagine the plan will now be to literally run the set into the ground and, if anything breaks, simply work around it (as much as possible) as they did with the newsroom hoop.

So if the Furios stopped working, for example, we’d likely just have fixed static shot presentation instead.

It sounds like (at least some) gallery equipment actually has been upgraded so at least those elements of the setup should now have several years left. The view is probably that they will then be able to put out some kind of broadcast from the gallery for a long time to come, and the studio can be left to decay in-situ, as they use it.

Hardly ideal, as you say, and in some ways a sad indictment of the current state of BBC News, but in some ways understandable.

I’ve always loved how E appears on-screen, so personally I’m not mad at the decision to leave the set largely as it is, even though I realise it’s not great from a technical perspective.