[Critique]

As ever, the updated pres/studio is nothing particularly exciting. The updates are fine, but ultimately Studio E has good bones so would take a lot of work to make it look awful, even if they have put in a curiously narrow monolith on one side of the desk and then a much smaller landscape screen on the other side.

Either way, it’s not the abject disaster that some on here are making it out to be - there are a couple of posters who I’m not sure I’ve ever seen express a positive opinion in the decade or longer they’ve been on the forum!

That said, it is a shame that expectations around the presentation of the BBC News Channel are so low these days. They’re just coming to end of what I think has been a really successful program to get the regional studios up to scratch, so it’s disappointing that, at the same time, they’ve allowed the quality of the news channel to drop so significantly. Ever since the UK and World channels have merged it’s felt like they’ve slowly been reintroducing some of the nice elements that were abruptly dropped at the point of merger, like having more than two camera shots across a 30 minute bulletin and using the flipper properly. As such, what’s often badged as ‘progress’ by some at the BBC is actually just them managing to get themselves back to a position they were already in a year ago!