[DTV]

If the new channel does 'soft launch' from studio C for the Spring & Summer, let's hope they at least launch with a decent backdrop. The fake newsroom backdrop in C, whilst slightly better than the previous version, is still awful. I've never understood why the dark blue 'ghost pillar' on the far right side of the presenter on screen, and that is clearly in view when the presenter is talking to a guest on the right hand side screen, has never been corrected.

Agreed, they should borrow the version used for network bulletins in Studio B which actually seems to have been designed with being a backdrop in mind and which, while a manipulated image, doesn't make that hugely obvious. The Studio C backdrop is just awful for so many reasons, but fundamentally it misses the trick of good newsroom backdrops - narrow perspective. Any flat backdrop always has issues being viewed from any angle other than front on, but wide-angled images just look incredibly distorted when viewed from the side.