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Given they have a studio downstairs with a set modelled on their regular one, might have been better to have used that instead. Obviously, there are issues with turnaround after Breakfast, but, given it's a one-off, I'm sure something could have been arranged - e.g. Breakfast on the NC ending at 08:30 and handing to a pre-record, or one programme coming from the old/NWT studio. Surely the advantage of having national quality sets dotted across the country is that you can utilise them when network programmes leave London, rather than having to fall back on cheap and nasty temp jobs.

I know they always do these decamps to a bit of office space for conference season, but they never look great and, as AaronTV says, this set-up is abnormally poor - they haven't even been arsed to bring up the regular furniture (which they used to do on Marr). They can't even say they've got a particularly good view, nor are they actually in Manchester.