Gallery: Q&A audience up close & personal

If you’re heading into the Q&A studio audience, you may want to check your make-up first.

No other show on TV frames its very serious faces with such scrutiny. Every pore, every wayward eyebrow hair is on display for the nation to see.

As Mad as Hell has recently noted, extreme close-ups are part of the visual language of the forum show, presumably to demonstrate that the audience is deep in thought over panel opinions (because you can’t be thinking if you’re in a wide shot, right?).

In high definition, there is nowhere to hide. Not even Tony Jones’ mug is this big on our screens.