First there were 25. Then there were 14. Now the Culture Company board has been whittled down to half-a-dozen.
Warren Bradley, Phil Redmond and NWDA chairman Bryan Gray are heading up the new-look body and promising to deliver a corking Capital of Culture.
Well, I will be the first to congratulate them if and when they do it.
But of course the proof of the pudding will be what we end up with in 2008.
All will be revealed on September 27 apparently.
Or at least, all of what has been arranged and agreed will be revealed.
Because Phil Redmond has said that there are things he wants to look at again, people who may have felt hard-done by or ignored when they pitched their ideas to the culture company the first time round, and even a possible injection of more "Liverpoolness" (my made-up word not his) into the programme.
Oh, and according to Bryan Gray if there is a new idea which has got legs, money may be filtered from another part of the budget or new money found from somewhere.
Money of course is a contentious subject because there is still the little issue of the £20m Liverpool is looking for to fill the Capital of Culture coffers.
Now the board has been hacked back at least they can make quicker, decisive decisions which is good news - as long as (as I said in the paper today) they are the right decisions.
I wait with interest to see just what they do between now and December.
