Working from home can create difficulties, and TV news presenters are not immune to the classic pitfalls. In recent weeks, the crisp and sleek setup of TV broadcasts has been ruffled as journalists around the world have filed stories and segments from home.
For many, it's been a smooth operation. For others, unexpected interruptions and sparked viral posts, while some have been caught in compromising positions on air for all to see.
Will Reeve, an ABC America journalist, appeared from his home office on Good Morning America this week to discuss pharmacies using drones to deliver supplies.
Mixing at-home comfort with a professional look, he opted for business at the top, and short shorts at the bottom.
Not aware of his faux-pas during the broadcast, he was called out by viewers on Twitter. He responded to his newfound fans: "I have ARRIVED. In the most hilariously mortifying way possible."
Despite what it looks like, Reeve did insist they were in fact shorts.
For Spanish news anchor Alfonso Merlos, things were a little worse. He was on a live YouTube stream when a woman wearing a towel walked past in the background. Problem was, she wasn't his girlfriend.
Merlos had been in a relationship with Spanish Big Brother personality Marta Lopez, and the woman in the back of that video has been reported to be journalist Alexia Rivas.
Despite accusations of infidelity, Merlos claims he had broken up with Lopez before the incident. Lopez says otherwise, and has called the ordeal "unpleasant" and "shameful".
BBC India journalist, Arunoday Mukharji, has had a completely different state of affairs in his home-reporting set-up. He took to social media this week to explain that broadcasting is hard to do alone and over the last month he'd found a capable work partner to lighten the load: his mother. She has been filling in as his dutiful camera operator.
He explained that she's "70 years old, a teacher, and also a great student as well."
The importance of a prepared set-up couldn't be more relevant in this BBC news interview with Patricia Scotland, the Commonwealth Secretary-General. Behind her is a man wearing a mask trying to appear discreet while he adjusts a flag.
Some have struggled to find an as-willing WFH colleague to assist. This American weather presenter was seamlessly delivering his usual forecast from his home office, when his pet dog Brodie jumped on his lap and cancelled his map graphics because he “whacked the computer with his head.” He had to improvise, and delivered the entire segment with his dog on his lap.
After yawning several times, Brodie wandered off, and jumped directly in front of the camera, looking for the operator who was stationed outside the window.
It's been labelled the "best weather forecast in the history of television news". It's pretty hard to disagree.
