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To be fair, it's not so much a sofa as a cushioned bench - you can't really lounge around on it. I'm also curious at what point it becomes unsuitable for 'hard' news to have a 'soft' set. Clearly there used to be a delineation - Breakfast used to start on the desk for the first 'news' hour and then move across to the sofa as things got lighter, even if the content difference was less marked. But Newsnight, which was the hardest of news programmes, used sofas on-and-off from 2006 and many programmes have used coffee tables and non-desk chairs for years now - including ITV Lunchtime News, Channel 4 News and I doubt anybody would say Impact was less serious than GMT.

Plus, due to the single presenter nature of it, you probably won't even be able to notice the presenter is sat on a sofa for the vast majority of the programme.