camera angles?

I feel like it’s started during the pandemic with the Fox football crew being outside but it seemed like it quickly expanded to studio shows on ESPN and other networks too.

I’m looking at ESPN’s college basketball show and instead of the usual 4 guys behind the desk it’s got 4 people sitting around a square table with you looking at the backs of 2 guys heads. They’ve experimented back and forth with this setup for their nba shows too.

Some peoples’ shoe game need work and it’s obvious some of them thought they would be sitting behind a desk when they came to work lol