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If the new Sport & Breakfast set is indeed "Birmingham (Length) x Hull (Width)" dimensions, then that seemingly all-but-confirms what we've previously been told about the remaining English Regions getting a standard set size.

It would otherwise be a remarkable coincidence that they've chosen a set size for the middle of the Salford sports newsroom that just-so-happens to be such that it would fit in even the smallest English Region studios, if that is not also what is planned for the regions themselves.

Not sure this is right. A set that was Birmingham depth and Hull width wouldn't fit in either the Birmingham or Hull studios, nor Norwich or Tunbridge Wells. The new Salford set is being built to incorporate the structural columns in Quay House (which are 9m apart centre-to-centre in that part of the bulding) which just so happens to be as deep as the Birmingham studio. In fact, the set actually overshoots the centres of the columns, so is probably a metre and a bit deeper than 9m from furtherest points (I was just thinking of the set in terms of the fact it is about 1 x 1.5 sets of structural columns). Plus, the new Salford set incorporates windows, so can't be of a standard design as only two other regions have possible window views - neither of which are in the same positioning.

If they are designing a one-size-fits-all regional set, which I doubt, it'd have to fit in the small area that in the earlier diagram fits within the Birmingham, Hull and Norwich studios. That's tiny - it'd have to fit in a space of about 8m x 7.2m, which would be highly constraining and wasting space on even the smallest studios.