The Big Breakfast

They coincided with the rebrand of Snap to The Sizzler, and also playing music at the start of the show with sweeping shots of the living room/the camera running into the house from outside.

Lisa Rogers mentions here that it's her "first week" in this clip:



Also if you look carefully, the phone room has shrunken half it's size to what it was earlier on that year.

That was awful.

The item?
The phone room?
Lisa?

I never spotted the phone room, please furnish me with a time index

You can see it in Heather's shots around 2:37 in the background.

That was when it became Mike Mclean's feature wasn't it?
Anybody know why it was shrunk though?

Mike did features from there in the show's final few months. Not sure why it shrunk though but features of the house were always changing inside!

The bar area has changed too. It used to be red but in that clip it matches the fireplace.

The item. It fell so flat.

I'm sure she was around long before that - didn't she guest host with Johnny or at least over the summer before Johnny and Denise returned?

She hosted the Find Me A Weather Presenter thing in 2000.

Both, IIRC. Also, she hosted the show on her own for a day in the week before Johnny and Denise returned. Johnny had been due to return from his summer holiday to do a week with Lisa, then start with Denise. He did his back in just before the show started on the first morning with Lisa so she had to fly solo. They showed a still of him lying flat on the floor during the show.

Lisa sent up the fact she was on her own by saying she'd expected to have an easy week now Johnny was back, just sitting next to him with some extra lippy on and a push-up bra and not having to say very much.

Yes. It certainly wasn't the best episode of the show. Look, you can see her here...
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Luckily, as mentioned in the clip above, as well as the eurodance/pop group the Vengaboys, one of the other guests that morning was professional television presenter Magnus Magnusson. The solution was obvious, give Lisa Rogers a break by having Magnusson interview the Vengaboys. I don't know if this was planned before the show or if it was a last minute thing. The poor quality of the Mastermind mock might be because it was done on the day or might be because it was done in advance, but poorly. Here is the clip...[media:b5c6be5371]http://up.metropol247.co.uk/davidlees/big_breakfast_magnus_magnusson_interviews_the_venga_boys_web.mp4[/media:b5c6be5371]