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Exclusive: TV Tonight hears Sunrise is getting a makeover next year.
As it heads into 2010, the Seven breakfast show will be sporting a new studio look at Martin Place.
The show is to get a new set, format, graphics and logo.
Set to coincide with the return of ratings, the makeover is being masterminded by Jim Fenhagen, from Production Design Group in New York City. His credits are formidable: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, CBS Early Show, Anderson Cooper 360, The Martha Stewart Show, Sky News London and more.
But after spending a week overseeing Martin Place, Fenhagen has his work cut out for him. Martin Place, the bank-turned-television studio, is the smallest space he has worked on outside of an Olympics studio.
Meanwhile The Ink Project has been appointed to revamp the show’s graphics. The company has designed for Foxtel, VH1, TVNZ, Coke, Nokelodeon, UKTV, SciFi, SBS ane more.
The changes follow major focus groups by Sunrise.
Sister programme The Morning Show will also have a new set.
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Someone should give Kochie a “voice lift”. Everytime I hear him, the ComedyInc sketch (I believe) just pops into my head. Oh well, not to worry….
Today’s Herald Sun mentions the new facelift but also that: ‘the changes include a big announcement regarding Melbourne and new sets’.
Anyone heard anything?
NBC’s ‘Today’ show also lanunched new graphics in September 2009.
Need more than a face lift by some boob from NYC before I’d watch the rubbish.
@philm: the new decade begins on January 1st, 2011
@tomtom, i think your right, sorry my mistake, the way the article is written i believe is a bit confusing though, did anyone else misunderstand the article? cheers : )
I think Kochie needs a facelift …
@mac
trust me. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
When I read the headline; “Facelift coming to Sunrise,” I thought, ‘oh no Melissa Doyle, you’re not at it again, are you?’
I was annoyed in 2007 when Sunrise’s new graphics in essence reverted back to a blue version of its old news ticker after a few days of techinical problems. So a makeover will be much welcomed, especially given that the Today show changed its supers and headline graphics recently.
Much needed for both shows – especially The Morning Show’s McDonalds colour scheme.
@tomtom: please read this article,
theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,26163927-7582,00
I stopped watching Sunrise, Mel and Natalie are so rude to Kochie, they think their s**t don’t stink. Much prefer Today. Sunrise need more than a new set, they need likeable presenters.
@mac. Skynews is not moving… It’s opening a one person studio to act as a Sydney bureau.
Why would it move given the facility isn’t even four years old?
It will be interesting to see how it is built considering how cramped the studio is with all the other sets taking up any free space in it. Let’s just hope they don’t backflip to something that looks like the old studio and graphics like they did after the 2007 refresh – the current set is nothing like the original and the main supers/graphics have reverted to the old style.
……”Quick, hide! The Today Show is coming,………..”
@ russel skynews will be moving to a new studio inside seven’s martin place by nov15, so i assume that they will get a new look too.
Awesome!! glad that they will get an update, i liked how the revamped their set in 2007 but now along with the morning show they should come up with an set that works well for both of the shows…
hope they re vamp seven news sydney set… with chris and mark taking over next year… if ian retires that is
Facelift? That circus sideshow needs a lobotomy.
Today show needs new graphics much more urgently than Sunrise. Their “this hour” and “need to know” graphics are very 90s!
unless they change the hosts. it doesnt matter really. might be a new set but it will be the rubbish they have now. get rid of kochie
So looking forward to the new set. As Russell said earlier, finally a product Australian television can be proud of. No doubt Seven News will get the makeover aswell.
Same lame segments and jokes by Kochie, infact same Kochie.
Can any network find a middle ground between fluff on 7/9 and grey on ABC?
will it mean a new look on air team….. please oh please…its the only reason i dont watch…i mean i dont, not like them, they seem like warm genuine people…there is just something about the way they present that urks me….
hells yeah!!
looking forward to it, the sunrise set is looking a little tired. bring on the new decade.
New set, same content, no thankyou. Will be interesting to see what he comes up with however.
This is good news, the show is looking a bit dated. I actually turn over to Today at times and the chemistry and feel of that show seems to be more appealing of late.
Looking forward to seeing it. The Colbert Report is one of the best sets around. Good on Seven for thinking outside the square…
Presumably Seven News Sydney will also have a change, as it is done from the same cubby hole?
The makeover is long overdue, especially given Today has been winning the ratings in Melbourne, and also has won Sydney several times in recent months.
Geeze the set must be tiny then!
And her I was hoping for a host change as well…
Ah well…
David, do you know if Seven News will get a relaunch too?
Wow, very cool. Great news. Good to see at least one news show in Australia will have a set up there with the best in the world.
Why can’t Sky News get this guy out?
They’re on the air 21 hours a day with their set. You think they’d throw some money at it.