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Beautiful tribute to Charles Osgood today. And really made you see how much the show is a former shell of itself. Charles was so curious and seemed to bring that curiosity into the show each week. Jane Pauley really doesn’t do that, and is there to really just introduce the stories. If Charlie was still hosting, it would still be on set. Otherwise where would they put the piano???

Agree. It gives the show a lot more depth and looks so much better visually.  Don’t know why they can’t go back to on set every week. 

CBS Sunday morning was back on set today. Seems to be the thing they do for Christmas (and will probably do next week as well). Wish it was every week.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and next week they’ll be back on set. 

Looks like they stayed on set for three holiday shows (probably taped them all the same day), but are back to the awful chroma key as of January 8th. Really sad what this show has become. 

Today CBS Sunday Morning was back on its full set for the first time since March 2020. They’ve done on-set shows for Thanksgiving and Christmas the prior two years, but it was a scaled down version and looked like a mess. Good to see the full set back. Hopefully it’s back every week. 

Here's a behind the scenes photo they showed today, in tribute to the director who is leaving.  Really sad what the quality of this show has become.

At least they are bringing back the glass music stand with the Sunday morning book. Still looks terrible, though. 

44 minutes ago, carolinanews4 said:

 

 

To me, the minimalistic set from the 70s is part of the DNA of the show. I think their chroma key looks cheap and is more reminiscent of the production value you'd see at a small market station, not a national news program. I know CBS values the story over the presentation, but there's a fine line between intentional minimalism and poor quality. 60 Minutes does all its studio wraps on blue screen and it looks extremely polished. 

I know studio space is at a premium and it is not efficient to have Studio 45 house a hard set that is only on air for 90 minutes a week. But there must be a better way to shoot this show. 

I can understand they did this at the start of the pandemic when they were most likely shooting at home, but to make it permanent is ridiculous.

During Thanksgiving and Christmas, they did shoot the show on a set, but it was a scaled down version.  Stilled looked better and had more depth than the awful look it has today.

It doesn’t have the warm feel the show used to have. Feels stiff and looks low budget. Wish they had kept the studio. 

When they pandemic started, they, like many shows, started broadcasting from home.  But they never went back to a "live" broadcast.  Appears they may be in a studio, but it's all green screen and I the quality looks terrible.  Would be nice if this show would go back to live, provide the headlines, weather forecast, and other features like the Sunday morning almanac, and weekly calendar.  And an update of who will be on Face the Nation,

Was hoping to see this in the fall, but appears the green screen format may be forever.

I’m not a big fan of the recent changes to NN. I don’t like how the opening is so quick, and the show is timed so there is no closing credit. Oftentimes, our affiliate is cutting off the last few words since it runs long. Thankfully the weekend edition still has some room to breathe