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So now we await the "new look" BBC Breakfast, after an Easter weekend of decidedly odd presentation from London, featuring Nick Owen, unfortunately unable to distinguish between the words "slash" and "splash".

I think the point is there'll be very little changed - after the experience of the Daybreak re-launch, nobody wants to scare the audience any more. So the set is a slightly-squeezed version of the current weekday Breakfast look - squeezed because it's built in office space, not a "proper studio".  The only changes are some upright white panels between the pretend windows, and the Italian graphic artist has created a computer-game version of a vaguely Mancunian skyline.

And the guests ? Buck Brannaman, an American horse trainer who was a consultant on The Horse Whisperer - a documentary about him, called Buck, gets a cinematic release this month. I can't yet spot a cinema that's showing it; Connie Fisher, starring in Wonderful Town just across the dock, at The Lowry.

On this basis, here's my list of upcoming last half hour guests for the rest of April.  John Owen-Jones and Katie Hall, stars of the touring version of Phantom of the Opera; Gareth Gates, coming to the Empire, Liverpool in Hair; Elaine C Smith, touring the North of England as Susan Boyle in "I dreamed a dream".  Oh, and Phil Redmond on his bid to run Liverpool TV.