ITV News: March 2022 onwards

[Worzel]

This is a new thread to discuss the changes to ITV News from 7 March 2022, including the extended Evening News.

[TVGuy]

I am watching the news right now. Let's see how it goes.

[eyeTV]

Ad break after regional news.

[RDJ]

The previews shown during the Regional News doesn’t show much presentational changes, but that Alex will be in the studio doing the weather.

[Josh]

One advert between the news, straight into it.

[jacobmorton]

No changes to opening titles. So far only noticeable change is to the screen to the left of the desk.

[XIII]

Unusual for an ad between the regional and national news, normally it goes straight through.

[London Lite]

ITV News West Country had a trailer and an interview with Mary Nightingale.

[JK1985]

They had this opportunity to even slightly refresh the look of the Evening News, but they gave us the same nine year old opening titles and usual presentation. What a missed opportunity to even slightly refresh the nine year old look of ITV News.

[mccanmat]

They had this opportunity to even slightly refresh the look of the Evening News, but they gave us the same nine year old opening titles and usual presentation. What a missed opportunity to even slightly refresh the nine year old look of ITV News.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?

[JK1985]

They had this opportunity to even slightly refresh the look of the Evening News, but they gave us the same nine year old opening titles and usual presentation. What a missed opportunity to even slightly refresh the nine year old look of ITV News.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?

I agree in terms of content, but in terms of presentation, I would have thought today would have been a perfect opportunity to even slightly refresh the look, which is now over nine years old. Just maybe tweaks to the backdrop of the empty news control room, maybe a refresh to the news desk, not much was needed to just refresh it up.

[JAS84]

Could the Russo-Ukrainian War be to blame? If anything was planned, now is honestly not a good time to launch it. You want a quiet news day for that, in case anything goes wrong.

[MFTJA]

They had this opportunity to even slightly refresh the look of the Evening News, but they gave us the same nine year old opening titles and usual presentation. What a missed opportunity to even slightly refresh the nine year old look of ITV News.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?

In my opinion it needs a refresh. The extremely flat titles and overall set looked quite fresh and modern 9 years ago, but times have changed.

[L1]

No changes to opening titles. So far only noticeable change is to the screen to the left of the desk.

Not a very good change either IMO. The screen just looks as though it is floating in the middle now, much preferred the previous style.

[MFTJA]

They had this opportunity to even slightly refresh the look of the Evening News, but they gave us the same nine year old opening titles and usual presentation. What a missed opportunity to even slightly refresh the nine year old look of ITV News.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?

I agree in terms of content, but in terms of presentation, I would have thought today would have been a perfect opportunity to even slightly refresh the look, which is now over nine years old. Just maybe tweaks to the backdrop of the empty news control room, maybe a refresh to the news desk, not much was needed to just refresh it up.

Something similar to the 2006 refresh would have done it for me. They didn't change a whole lot from the 2004 rebrand, but since they had a new logo they took the time to do some changes to the presentation of the news programmes