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Countdown is a British game show involving word and mathematical tasks that began airing in November 1982. It is broadcast on Channel 4 and is currently presented by Colin Murray, assisted by Rachel Riley with lexicographer Susie Dent.
Apr 4, 2010 · Broadcast on Friday 26th March 2010 - Part 1 Of 4 - Jeff Stelling & Rachel Riley host this milestone of an episode of the classic gameshow.
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Tom Read Wilson hosts the game show in which brave contestants compete to win cash and the hairstyle of their dreams. The losers will head home without the money...
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Origin
Countdown originated from the format of the French game show Des chiffres et des lettres (Numbers and Letters), created by Armand Jammot. After watching the programme, Belgian record executive Marcel Stellman brought the format to Britain on the belief it could be popular overseas, and proposed his concept for the British version to several networks. The concept was purchased in the early 1980s by Yorkshire Television, which commissioned a series of eight shows under the title Calendar Countd...
Whiteley Tenure
Richard Whiteley, Countdown's original presenter from 1982 until his death in June 2005. Alongside the original cast from Calendar Countdown, the new format of the gameshow led to production staff seeking out further hostesses through advertisement in national newspapers for young women to become a member of the programme's cast, with notable conditions about their involvement; in particular, those recruited for calculations found it made clear that as an applicant, their appearance would be...
Post-Whiteley
In October 2005, Channel 4 announced that Des Lynam would take over as the main presenter, having previously participated in the celebrity edition (Celebrity Countdown) in April 1998. Lynam's tenure ran until December 2006, whereupon his demanding filming schedule forced him to resign from the programme. His departure was due to the travel requirements that his 2007 schedule required of him; despite an effort by Channel 4 to deal with this by changing the filming location from Leeds to a site...
Countdown has occupied a tea-time broadcast slot since its inception, originally in a 30-minute format. Since 2001, an episode lasts around 45 minutes including advertising breaks. During the normal series, the winner of each game returns for the next day's show. A player who wins eight games is declared an "octochamp" and retires from the programm...
Since Countdown's debut in 1982, there have been nearly 7,500 televised games and 82 complete series. There have also been fifteen Champion of Championstournaments, with the most recent held in January 2019. Several of Countdown's most successful contestants have received national media coverage. Teenager Julian Fell set a record score of 146 in De...
The letters of a round during a 1991 episode in which both contestants declared the word wankers. Countdownis often referenced and parodied in British culture.
Three (originally two) numbers games where players use their arithmetical skills in order to get to a target number using only the six numbers they've got and the four basic number operations. The numbers are chosen from a board which contains the numbers from 1 to 10 twice over, and one each of 25, 50, 75 and 100.
Countdown: With Susie Dent, Carol Vorderman, Richard Whiteley, Rachel Riley. The long-running words and numbers game.
The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility. Each day two contestants compete in 15 rounds of words and n...
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