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If any "well-known" name gets the job it could be a disaster. To anyone who doesn't follow football through Sky Jeff Stelling was completely unknown and thus a breath of fresh air. What he has done is made the show much more about the contestants and less about the presenter than anyone else - even RW. RW's contestant intros were often fairly brief, and once somebody was a champion very little was asked of them after day one. JS clearly tries to find something fresh to ask/discuss every day, even for an octochamp.

I suspect many of the names thrown into the discussion would simply be too self-important, would be too used to having their programmes being about them. Personally I don't watch much TV so I've no idea who's best for it but if we get someone who's already been at the top end of their career (like Lynham) or an "entertainer" (which is what O'Connor supposedly was) the show will go backwards again.

I'd like to see Andrew Castle do it.

Lembit Opik must have a fair bit of time on his hands.

Ryan Taylor wrote:I'd like to see Andrew Castle do it.

Who with?

I nominate Vernon Kay and Dudley.

i want cheryl cole to take over, pet!

Soph K wrote:i want cheryl cole to take over, pet!

I was in the audience yesterday (Tuesday) and we tried to get Dudley to admit something, but he said he had no idea - I believed him. He DID say if by any chance they put a female in, he's going; he thinks highly of JS and like a lot of us thinks it's a hard act to follow. Also there's to be a lot of recordings coming up, no summer break, so they can get the series done quickly and release JS, i.e. it looks likely that the finals will be recorded weeks in advance of transmission.

I want a normal person to take over. They don't have to be famous, just good at presenting the show. Jeff wasn't famous (well he does a bit of sky sports but not much else.) If a famous person takes over, they will probably center the show on themselves too much. As someone said, Jeff always finds something to talk with the contestants about, even in the semi-finals. (In the final they just talk about... err... the final.) Plus if someone really famous takes over (like, say, Cheryl Cole) then a load of randommers will watch, skip through the 'boring' letters and numbers bits and just watch for the bits from the presenter. Then a load of people will do stupid stuff like suggest sexual terms for the OoW section.

I don't want anyone famous presenting Countdown, just someone who is good at the job. Perhaps they will find fame that way! I don't think RW was famous before he became the presenter, but (despite his death) he is now famous among a lot of us Countdowners!

Rhys Benjamin wrote:

Soph K wrote:i want cheryl cole to take over, pet!

i dont like jeff stelling. hahahaha!










well thats how bad his jokes are!!!!!!

Thomas Carey wrote:I want a normal person to take over. They don't have to be famous, just good at presenting the show. Jeff wasn't famous (well he does a bit of sky sports but not much else.) If a famous person takes over, they will probably center the show on themselves too much. As someone said, Jeff always finds something to talk with the contestants about, even in the semi-finals. (In the final they just talk about... err... the final.) Plus if someone really famous takes over (like, say, Cheryl Cole) then a load of randommers will watch, skip through the 'boring' letters and numbers bits and just watch for the bits from the presenter. Then a load of people will do stupid stuff like suggest sexual terms for the OoW section.

I don't want anyone famous presenting Countdown, just someone who is good at the job. Perhaps they will find fame that way! I don't think RW was famous before he became the presenter, but (despite his death) he is now famous among a lot of us Countdowners!

Give it to Gevin (that would make a good T-shirt slogan)

Marc Meakin wrote:

Thomas Carey wrote:I want a normal person to take over. They don't have to be famous, just good at presenting the show. Jeff wasn't famous (well he does a bit of sky sports but not much else.) If a famous person takes over, they will probably center the show on themselves too much. As someone said, Jeff always finds something to talk with the contestants about, even in the semi-finals. (In the final they just talk about... err... the final.) Plus if someone really famous takes over (like, say, Cheryl Cole) then a load of randommers will watch, skip through the 'boring' letters and numbers bits and just watch for the bits from the presenter. Then a load of people will do stupid stuff like suggest sexual terms for the OoW section.

I don't want anyone famous presenting Countdown, just someone who is good at the job. Perhaps they will find fame that way! I don't think RW was famous before he became the presenter, but (despite his death) he is now famous among a lot of us Countdowners!

Give it to Gevin (that would make a good T-shirt slogan)

On second thoughts give to Charlie.
Surely a legend.............in his own mind.

Thomas Carey wrote: I don't think RW was famous before he became the presenter

Before CD he presented (and continued to do so) Yorkshire regional current affairs and political shows.

Ian Volante wrote:

Thomas Carey wrote: I don't think RW was famous before he became the presenter

Before CD he presented (and continued to do so) Yorkshire regional current affairs and political shows.

His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

Marc Meakin wrote:

Ian Volante wrote:

Thomas Carey wrote: I don't think RW was famous before he became the presenter

Before CD he presented (and continued to do so) Yorkshire regional current affairs and political shows.

His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

Ferret.

Martin Bishop wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

Ferret.

Calendar.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Martin Bishop wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

Ferret.

Calendar.

It'll Be Alright on the Night

Marc Meakin wrote: His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

pre-Countdown.

Marc Meakin wrote:His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

Night'.

Hooray, I think the dissection is complete.

Ryan Taylor wrote:Hooray, I think the dissection is complete.

Hooray!

Adam Gillard wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

Night'.

Schoolboy error methinks, Adam.

John Gillies wrote:

Adam Gillard wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:His global claim to fame pre countdown was the weasel incident from 'Calender', shown on 'It Will Be Alright On The Night.'

Night'.

Schoolboy error methinks, Adam.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ ... tation.htm

Sorry for my eRrors.
But some of the mistakes are weasily made.
I can't always be stoatily correct.
Still it proves that are still a few forumites left that haven't foed me.

Charlie Reams wrote:

John Gillies wrote:

Adam Gillard wrote:
Night'.

Schoolboy error methinks, Adam.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ ... tation.htm

Sorry Charlie (and Adam), is it me who's made the blunder? I had always assumed that if a sentence ended with a quote then the period should be placed before the second quotation mark. I've quickly read through the article to which you provided a link, and couldn't see anything to contradict this. So, if I'm wrong, please tell me why as I'm a bit of a pedantic weirdo who takes these matters semi-seriously.

John Gillies wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:

John Gillies wrote: Schoolboy error methinks, Adam.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ ... tation.htm

Sorry Charlie (and Adam), is it me who's made the blunder? I had always assumed that if a sentence ended with a quote then the period should be placed before the second quotation mark. I've quickly read through the article to which you provided a link, and couldn't see anything to contradict this. So, if I'm wrong, please tell me why as I'm a bit of a pedantic weirdo who takes these matters semi-seriously.

That article wrote:In the United Kingdom, Canada, and islands under the influence of British education, punctuation around quotation marks is more apt to follow logic. In American style, then, you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design." But in England you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design".

It's a full stop round here by the way

Charlie Reams wrote:

John Gillies wrote:

Adam Gillard wrote:
Night'.

Schoolboy error methinks, Adam.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ ... tation.htm

John Gillies wrote:I've quickly read through the article to which you provided a link, and couldn't see anything to contradict this.

Didn't realise you were American, John.

Adam Gillard wrote:Didn't realise you were American, John.

It's probably the bit where it says "...in England you would write..." that put him off

Gice the sweaties their independence, I say (now the oils gone and Andy Murray keeps failing at Wimbledon)

Ian Volante wrote:

John Gillies wrote: Sorry Charlie (and Adam), is it me who's made the blunder? I had always assumed that if a sentence ended with a quote then the period should be placed before the second quotation mark. I've quickly read through the article to which you provided a link, and couldn't see anything to contradict this. So, if I'm wrong, please tell me why as I'm a bit of a pedantic weirdo who takes these matters semi-seriously.

That article wrote:In the United Kingdom, Canada, and islands under the influence of British education, punctuation around quotation marks is more apt to follow logic. In American style, then, you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design." But in England you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design".

It's a full stop round here by the way

Ah, thanks Ian; I missed that bit. I stand corrected.
Fifty years spent living in ignorance. Oh dear.
So, apologies all round, especially to Adam.
Who says, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks"? (Hope that's correct.)

The really worrying aspect of all this is that this means I'm as wrong as Marc Meakin.

John Gillies wrote:The really worrying aspect of all this is that this means I'm as wrong as Marc Meakin.

Don't worry about that, I'd say you've got a way to go yet.

John Gillies wrote:Who says, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks"? (Hope that's correct.)

Nope. No comma, no quotes.

Some great news on this front, which I can bring back from my recent visit to the studios. It seems that now that the dust has settled, the countdown team are going to do their best to work around Jeff's new expanded sky sports schedule, so he may not have to give up his position after all. Hip Hip...

Andy Wilson wrote:Some great news on this front, which I can bring back from my recent visit to the studios. It seems that now that the dust has settled, the countdown team are going to do their best to work around Jeff's new expanded sky sports schedule, so he may not have to give up his position after all. Hip Hip...

ULTRA LIKE!!!

Now there is a reason for me to post in this thread.

If they can pull that off, it will be such a miracle that it might need an investigation of Parliament!

Andy Wilson wrote:Some great news on this front, which I can bring back from my recent visit to the studios. It seems that now that the dust has settled, the countdown team are going to do their best to work around Jeff's new expanded sky sports schedule, so he may not have to give up his position after all. Hip Hip...

They said that when I was there, too. Dudley rather revealed it when he wasn't supposed to, and the scriptwriter lady confirmed it for us in the green room. They weren't entirely confident that it was going to work, but they know what they've got and will fight to keep it.

Dudley, who are you to do that?

Mark Deeks wrote:. . . the scriptwriter lady . . .

The what??? Someone gets paid??

Jason Larsen wrote:Dudley, who are you to do that?

Dudley, you've been told!

Yes Dudley!

Maybe our prayers have been answered............

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/2011/ ... -23299557/

James Robinson wrote:Maybe our prayers have been answered............

*checks pants*

Nope.

Was this just a stunt to get a few more viewers?

Have the viewing figures dropped now that countdown is up against that odious ginger tart?

Marc Meakin wrote:Have the viewing figures dropped now that countdown is up against that odious ginger tart?

I thought Noel Edmonds was actually blonde, but this photo proves otherwise. Damn, those ginges are everywhere.

Yes!

Also, for the record, Jon Corby is not right.

He hasn't been 'right' for years.

Ok Marc

James Robinson wrote:Maybe our prayers have been answered............

Sorry James, I'm Atheist.

I think the title of this thread should be "Stelling to Stay." The exclamation points can stay also.

It would be good to see Jeff stay and I want to know when Countdown comes back on screen. i cannot find out any info - silly me. Help.

On the 22nd day of the wonderful month of August -- remember that.

Thanks for that, young man.

John Bosley wrote:Thanks for that, young man.

Not quite true.......
That is when Series 65 will resume, but there are going to be 2 more specials shown on the 15th and 16th August.

Ta for that as well.

Who is playing in the specials, James?

Douglas Wilson wrote:Who is playing in the specials, James?

Unfortunately, my information on that is severely limited.

All I know is that they're between women who lost their first games with high scores.

2 people I know who are definitely on are Barbara Grice, who lost to Mary Adie in that thriller in the last series, and Lucy Bolton, who lost to Ryan in his 7th game in S61.

James Robinson wrote: 2 people I know who are definitely on are Barbara Grice, who lost to Mary Adie in that thriller in the last series, and Lucy Bolton, who lost to Ryan in his 7th game in S61.

Wow didn't know this. And I just went on her facebook and ruined the result for myself.

I thought for sure John was asking when Series 65 will return!

I was, but the other info is welcome.
I appreciate getting info on this forum and wonder how Channel 4 tell the general public what is going on - or do they have to read the Daily Mail?