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Facelift coming to Sunrise

Exclusive: Next year Sunrise will sport a new format, set, graphics and logo as the show seeks to freshen up for the new decade.

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srExclusive: 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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  3. 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.

  4. @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?

  5. 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.

  8. 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

  12. 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.

  14. 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….

  18. 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.

  21. 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.

  25. 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.

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