[Critique]

The 2005 relaunch is the best Sky News has ever looked IMO - a lovely music package, an expansive newsroom set and some really lovely presentation (bring back the voice of God!). Sure, the accompanying format change had a myriad of faults, from triple-headed shows for no reason to endless ‘coming up’ and ‘tell us what you think’ segments rather than actual news (some of the presenters were… interesting choices too), but the presentation itself has never looked better as far as I’m concerned.

I therefore think it’s a huge shame that when they went to fix the format, they gradually killed off everything that was nice about the 2005 look, until eventually by 2015 Sky News there was barely anything left. It’s gotten better in recent years (particularly the new Millbank set), but there were a good few years of Sky News comprising of (still) top rate journalism, but wrapped up in a bland format with bland theme music and predominantly hosted from a bland glass box (which, despite the backlash when it first launched, definitely looked much better before they panicked and started focussing all of their shots on the huge screen/a corridor with a few coloured lights in).