[chrisherald]

Network latency certainly a factor, but not impossible to overcome, see Katty and Christian; it can be learned to compensate. I would think Singapore is not set up with the operational capacities of BBC facilities in the UK, GFX aren't all done there, and the presenter is likely self-advancing many of the show elements (I assume). This rigidity is felt by the viewer. DC was perhaps similar but improvements in production tooling have been made, perhaps largely thanks to election coverage. (Though I still hate both the new and old set. I'd rather DC look like Singapore.) To be fair, sometimes things do just feel a bit tired on the output from SG. I think sometimes presenters are a just bit tired too. You know the guy who does breakfast sport, I don't really think he likes mornings. To be clear, I like the presenters in SG, but there may be environmental factors for them that result in slightly lackluster presence; perhaps the SG office doesn't have a buzz to it, an energy to feed off of, like all performers need. (Why is a concert good in some cities, bad in others; (venue/audience) vibes man)

And, how much of the journalism is originating from Singapore, does the presenter (and in-office team) feel any sense of ownership of the output or stories they tell, the DC office telling US stories, they likely produced those. A BBC for a new age must empower every person at every level of the signal chain to feel ownership in what's going out.

It may also be the colour grade of the SG output, there is a different visual tone to the studio, perhaps given the windows! (Make the windows darker like AJE London, more ND filter film or whatever!) As well, many of us are watching the daytime studio output during what is often our nighttime, so perhaps the visual-emotional feeling for us as viewers is a bit jet lag like.

And (cause I love starting sentences with and), of course, the lesser the technical footprint of the SG office, the smaller the team, the less empowered they will feel to "leap off the page." If you don't feel like the folks in your office/production-team-and-automation-tooling are ready to deal with anything, you're gonna be very careful before you hit the "take next" button on your remote or console (if we had a robot camera in SG and it breaks, who fixes it? Better be careful with everything!).

There is perhaps also the issue of the UK being asleep! DC has the benefit of the wider apparatus of the BBC being mostly awake, so feeds can (as they may already exist for other later-evening UK programs) be shared with the US from NBH, the US rundowns will/can be more lively, with more remotes coming in. SG gets stuck with a rather dull format of packaged content, far less live elements than other hours of news channel output. It's perhaps just less exciting for a presenter to head that sort of hour, than something more fully supported.