This makes me wonder what restrictions there might have been in place that are, unfortunately, no longer in place on episodes and content.

I am assuming you mean episodes featuring fur coats, now that Bob has passed away?

For the second straight postseason, the Florida Panthers eliminate the Boston Bruins by a 2-1 score and take the series 4-2. They will face off against the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Final, which will begin on Wednesday and the series will be on ESPN/ABC.

Meanwhile, it took double overtime for the Dallas Stars to finish the job and eliminate the Colorado Avalanche by a 2-1 score and take the series 4-2 after a no goal call for goalie interference in the first overtime - they will face the winner of the Vancouver Canucks-Edmonton Oilers series, which could wrap up by tonight or if the Edmonton Oilers win Game 6, extend it to Game 7 on Monday night. The Western Conference Final in the US will be on TNT.

And in other news, the Toronto Maple Leafs have hired Craig Berube as their head coach.

While the first two bags are always the cheapest and most expensive, I've noticed the expensive item is never something you eat or drink, am I right on that? Correct me if I'm wrong.

For the most part yes, the most expensive item is usually a medical product or some other non-food item.

So, if there's so much room in the studio, why half the number of seats in the audience compared to what there used to be?  Clearly it sounds as if they have room.  I suppose it's a great convenience to leave both sets standing, but Price never had that privilege in all its years at TVC.

I don't believe it is as wide as it was in TVC. I haven't sit down and counted the columns of seats across, but it seems less wide than 33 - it would probably look absurd to add rows (i.e. make the studio deeper & also higher - remember, there's still a slope down to contestants row).

As best as I can tell, they've made it as wide as they can make it and this is a physical limitation of the space: there are hallways on both sides - the one you walk through to get to the set, and the one where production/crew runs around. One of these (the production side) butts up against the outer wall of the studio and the other (the one the audience walks through) butts up against a "finished" hallway that has a number of furnished suites.

One open space. I think the control room is between the two just covered by curtains and/or partitions.

Yeah, the control room is maybe 10 feet wide, running between the two sets and covered by curtains that say "do not touch".

I don't think I remember there being enough room in between for anything permanent like a control room, but I definitely could be wrong. Maybe NickintheATL remembers it differently.

From what I remember I saw a few makeup tables covered by curtains and some stairs leading to an area with a few monitors and a house sound mixing board, but not much else. I'll keep an eye out next time.