The Big Breakfast known as 'The Cottage'. After renovation following a fire, it has also been used for a number of television shows. Mark Lamarr, Keith Chegwin, Paul Ross, Richard Orford, Richard Bacon and Mike McClean were "down your doorstep" outside broadcasters, often turning up live and unannounced at an unsuspecting viewer's house, while rooms within the Lock Keeper's Cottages featured the puppets Zig and Zag and video games guru Ben the Boffin. The show's style, with hand-held cameras moving around all of the set, meant that many of the crew members could be seen on screen. This led to them getting nicknames,
The Big Breakfast history of "The Big Breakfast", was briefly retitled as simply Snap, in 1997. As well as continuing as a short, daily entertainment news feature within "The Big Breakfast", "Snap" also became a show in its own right. Airing once weekly at 6.00pm on Channel 4, the half hour show was a light hearted round-up of recent news stories concerning popular entertainment in the UK. Presented by Denise Van Outen, the show was intentionally recognisable as being closely related to "The Big Breakfast", from which it originated and continued to be part of. "Snap" contained a number of elements synonymous with