Well, we did say it might happen - that the mismatched power trio who popped up this time last year fronting Seven Sharp, TV One's light and bright new slant on current affairs, wouldn't survive into the new year.
And that line-up didn't - Greg Boyed falling on his swordsome months before the end of the show's ignoble 2013 run, while co-host Ali Mau had her final cut delivered in a more traditional manner, along with the show's producer.
This sort of thing might have thrown a lesser power than TVNZ, convinced them to go back to the future, cut back on the fluff and chit-chat, take the events of the day at least a bit seriously.
But not them. No, without recourse to either rocket science or lateral thinking, the channel simply replaced the casualties, did some minimal tweaking and last night relaunched the show, still obviously convinced that it's the messengers and not the messages that matter. So, joining sole survivor Jesse Mulligan we have Mike Hosking and Toni Street, Hosking acknowledging the elephant in the room with his opening line to Mulligan: "You must be stoked just to be here."
Oh yes, there were some stories, only one of them having anything to do with the news of the day, a nice light and fluffy one on Lorde conquering the Grammys yesterday.
In other breaking news, there was a piece on Kiwis not getting a fair crack of the benefits in Australia and coverage of Hokitika's Driftwood and Sand Festival.
Meanwhile, over on TV3, Campbell Live had a rock-solid slate - Lorde (an interview with her co-writer/producer Joel Little), a belter of a story on an immigration scam and a suitably playground-based interview with David Cunliffe.
Seven Sharp's token passing reference to Cunliffe's state-of-the-nation speech yesterday was notable only for Mulligan taking the ill-advised step of labelling the Labour leader's followers "Cunnies".
