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Martin Hurst wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 9:10 am This rule will make Family Fortunes impossible!

"And tonight's families are Family A from somewhere, and Family B from somewhere else!"

UK (Scotland and England), Spain, Tunisia, Turkey

Small list, yes, but I plan to go to Italy next month (for F1) and maybe a couple more next year.

These travels to co-events are building my confidence

Shitloads of people were disgusted that a nine went amiss in Round 8. Disgraceful.

9-round era:
1: Harvey Freeman, the only two-time series champion (Series 13 and 33, the supreme title).
2: Allan Saldanha, one of the best never to win a series, and twice, also a very charitable gentleman!
3: Mark Nyman, again, never won his series but was the first ever CoC and went on to be the ...

Secret Fortune. A cross between WWTBAM? and DoND, and it was executed brilliantly. Shame it ended when the BBC dropped the lottery draws from the telly.

Golden Balls should come back to TV.

I first saw Countdown on TV in 2001-2002, watched the odd episode or two a month over the years (including Catsdown), but it was not until 2020 during lockdown I started to get hooked, watched most if not all the episodes from there on, didn't sign up to Apterous until a while later, probably a good ...

Fun fact: In Suzanne's first appearance in 2011, she lost by TWO points! This time around she lost by ONE!

Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 12:46 pm It's good to hear Logan is into Formula 1. I worried his sacking by Williams would have turned him away from it.

I want that seat back, I still think I am better than Colapinto

Angela Scanlon mentioned the time someone stormed off on Robot Wars after being beaten by a load of children. I presume it was this . She also seemed to think it was series 3. Series 3 was in about 2000! Maybe she meant series 3 of its revival.


Actually it was Series 2 of the revival. And he ...

Why at football matches when there is added time does the clock stick at 45/90 and just have +5 on the side, but it doesn't show the updated time.
Everybody would want to see oh its the 93rd minute now 2 minutes left, but they just simply don't show it.
Do the clocks not work? Is this a ...

Been playing too much Gran Turismo 7 and Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel lately...