[James2001]

Propped up by two reams of paper, no expense spared there!

[Bluecortina]

Propped up by two reams of paper, no expense spared there!

I think you might be surprised at how some major studio production centres got ‘things’ on air - sometimes due to ingenuity, simple lack of time or that’s just how it was given the circumstances. Modesty prevents me from posting pictures of mainstream PSB programming getting to air via boxes of kit carefully balanced on upside down waste paper bins. You’d never do anything to jeopardise a programme getting to air but sometimes you just had to make it up and never never ever ever promise the production staff something you weren’t 100% sure you couldn’t deliver. Back then, what a time to be working behind the scenes in telly, never lost a programme.

[thegeek]

Here's a classic example from the bowels of TV Centre: thedailywtf.com 

Sophisticated Cooling Apparatus - The Daily WTF
If you've ever wondered what's behind those "Technical Difficulties…
  Source: thedailywtf.com