Spinning the colour wheel

I rather hope Mark Byford didn't stay up too late for his birthday yesterday.  At 1.00am on his tv, he might have caught a glimpse of "Newsday" on BBC World/The News Channel - and yellow.

One of Mark's major investments in "journalism" was the very expensive employment of designers Lambie-Nairn, who deemed that blue, grey and other shades of the same would no longer be the colours of BBC News; from now on it was China Red, with a strictly limited palette of accompanying colours.  All round the country, sets were rebuilt  in regional newsrooms, with new titles featuring the red spinning globe plus various shards of whizzing geometry adding spurious dynamism.  This vast investment would unify "Journalism", and establish an instantly recognisable "brand" worldwide.

There has been some loosening of the rules; a little blue has been appearing at 10pm, to complement Huw Edwards' "tan".  BBC Breakfast owns a few shades of orange, alongside the China Red sofas. But yellow has not been seen since Mark Byford left the building.  Not, at least, until this week.

Not convinced it's yellow ?   Here's the backdrop for UK presenter Babita Sharma.

Can't be long before we see green....