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The new BBC News Studio B set as featured on The One Show. This is the design for the BBC Ten O’Clock News
BBC News has debuted a new set for the national bulletins on the BBC Ten O’Clock News tonight, and the reactions have been largely positive.
The set was first previewed on The One Show at 7pm, and was first shown in action during the Ten O’Clock news with Huw Edwards.
The new set, in BBC Broadcasting House’s Studio B, will also be featured on the Six O’Clock News as of tomorrow, as confirmed by Huw Edwards on The One Show.
Left: Huw Edwards Instagram post teasing the new set
Further shots of the new set, featuring the new desk and catwalk area
The new set is much larger than the previous newsroom set, and features a virtual newsroom backdrop for the main desk shot.
Multiple presentation points have been shown, including one that is designed for tall, mobile-style content, and a touch screen for use by the presenter or the weather team.
The design of the set features lots of physical elements that aren’t tied too much to the current look, which suggests the upcoming overall BBC News rebrand should not look out of place in this set.
Reaction online has been positive, mentioning the European set influences that the set exhibits.
The new BBC News studio looks very nice indeed, and it seems to have a heavy European influence. Certainly makes the current (Nine year old) ITV News set look dated.
— ACTV (@ThisisACTV) June 13, 2022
wow
— Gordon G Donaldson (@gordygeorge88) June 13, 2022
ABSOLUTELY WOW
what an ABSOLUTELY STUNNING new set for #bbcnews #TheOneShow
Left: A shot of the new tall screen in the new BBC News set. The robotic cameras were described by Huw Edwards as “Scandinavian technology”, running on rails embedded into the floor, with a flickering light in the base of each robotic camera. Also shown is the new spiral staircase, in the style of the spiral staircases in the newsroom.
Studio B was previously mothballed, due to its less automated nature than the other Broadcasting House studios. The cameras required human operators, and this was deemed too costly in the current climate. The upgrade has now introduced robotic cameras to the studio, the larger space allowing a wider variety of camera shots than has previously been possible in the regular News Channel and World News studios, Studio C and Studio E.
A very large Jermaine Jenas, with a shot of Jermaine Jenas looking away from the very large Jermaine Jenas on the screen