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Sally A. Rucker, from Olympia, USA:

I think your new look is easier to read and I certainly like the stories that you have chosen. I have always admired your work and wish you well.

Richard C Goswick, from Georgia, USA:

I think you all just look ducky. Kind of smart like. It looks super to me.

Samuel Marchant, from London:

Disappointed. Was that the set from ITV? I was hoping for bold, different, new. All I saw was distracting backdrops and the foolish walk along the set with graphics gimmick, just like ITN. Are you competing with Big Brother now? What's next, the diary room with Paxman? Newsnight is the only real current affairs programme on TV, please don't dumb down and follow the crowd.

Jack Deans, from Bangor, County Down:

Very impressive.

Michael Williams, from London:

Erm... where's Jeremy Paxman gone in that set? Oh, there he is... a tiny figure just visible off the left hand side of the screen and about an inch up from the bottom of the frame. Call me old-fashioned, but I always thought the set was there to back the presenter, not the other way round. Still, I'm sure it was a jolly expensive set, so best show it, I suppose. But if the director and camera operator could see their way clear to bringing the host back somewhere near the centre of the picture at some time, it'd be nice.

Peter Ashley, from England:

I am very sad that you have decided to interfere so appallingly with the presentation of news on your programme. Poor Mr Paxman had to compete with a row of jiggling empty test tubes in his opening remarks, and the film on the drugs trials was utterly ruined by tricksy camera angles, speeded-up frames, irrelevant silhouetting of subjects etc. Your news programme was the best on TV. It has now been horribly compromised, just for the sake of what the computer can do. Use technology to help, not hinder.

John M. Dunlap, from Missouri, USA:

Very professional - I compliment you.

Paul Alker, from Lytham St. Annes:

Guys... from the pictures it looks like something for robots to use... way too clinical... no warmth... and PLEASE don`t have Paxo and all standing up! But... importantly... good and hard news stories and reporting... so I'll put up with progress! Cheers on being the best news programme...