[harshy]

The left aligned programme name with centred BBC NEWS, top and bottom, is part of the Chameleon style, as seen on trailer endboards. Whether the intention was for this to be used in programme titles in this way is another matter.

I’m making an educated guess here, but the latest batch of programme titles don’t look like the work of a professional design agency to me – rather they scream in-house job by the BBC News graphics team. 

I know for a fact that they were responsible for the current BBC Parliament titles in which they replaced Lambie-Nairn’s big, dramatic, industrial cogs and gears with some bicycle components. So they’ve certainly got form for naff titles.

Or maybe they’ve got the work experience student working on it.

I don’t think it is as chameleon endboards end with the programme name in Reith bold and non caps, whilst this uses the thinner Reith medium font and is all caps, so they’ve already broken that particular guideline, also the line height is out as focus on Africa shows.