[Stockland Hillman]

Nonsense. Do the new studios need tweaking? Yes. But that doesn't take away from the fact that they have made a huge investment in the channel over the past few months.
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3 prime time shows presented by 3 different presenters in 3 different studios costs a fortune. Each show requires its own team. There's also a new podcast studio, too.

Unless there's been a radical and unnecessary change in working practices at Sky, it's not as big a spend as all that.

Stand alone shows require presenters, producers and some extra production journalists for each, but the facilities are all shared and the biggest expense - production control/gallery/ingest - is centralised and shares staff

With two major elections planned for this year I'd expect the Millbank upgrade is fundamentally for that purpose rather than the Kay show etc. Changing a desk and floor covering refresh in their only 4 wall production studio is hardly unusual or bank breaking; the a screens are the same, the news managers have just chosen to listen to the in-house Sky PS designers for show visuals that work better on the same LCD walls.

If only Sky management understood the value in the "wrapping" of each show and branding for TV, and did more with the furniture of TV - promos, themes etc they'd be almost on track.