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The programme was presented by Richard Whiteley for 23 years until his death on 26 June 2005. It was then presented by Des Lynam from October 2005 until December 2006, Des O'Connor from January 2007 until December 2008, Jeff Stelling from January 2009 until December 2011 and Nick Hewer from January 2012 until his retirement in June 2021, with Colin Murray standing in for Nick Hewer during part ...
2 November – Yorkshire Television produces the first ever programme to air on Channel 4, the gameshow Countdown which remains on the air to this day, although it has been produced in north-west England since 2009. 1983. 1 February – ITV's breakfast television service TV-am launches. Consequently, Yorkshire Television's broadcast day now ...
ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown is currently being televised, but regular host Sam Ponder is not taking part in this week’s broadcast. According to New York Post sports media reporter Andrew ...
Dent is well known as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on Channel 4's longest-running game show, Countdown.She began working on Countdown in 1992 at the insistence of her boss, Simon, at Oxford University Press (OUP).
Murray was born on 10 March 1977 in the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, a suburb of East Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up on Dundonald's Ballybeen estate. [6] He said on the 5 September 2022 edition of Countdown that for two days his name was Luke Wright, until "a family member pointed out that was a direction"; he later took his stepfather's surname. [7]
Countdown to Christmas: Watch live countdown Other key dates this holiday season. Thanksgiving (Nov. 28) Hanukkah (Dec. 22–30) Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) Christmas Day (Dec. 25) Kwanzaa (Dec. 26 ...
1 [1] John Richard Whiteley (28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005) was an English presenter and journalist, best known for his twenty-three years as host of the game show Countdown . Countdown was the launch programme for Channel 4 at 4:45 pm on 2 November 1982, and Whiteley was the first person to be seen on the channel (not counting a programme ...
4:45 pm: The first programme airs. It is the gameshow Countdown and presenter Richard Whiteley starts by saying "as the countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new countdown begins." It remains on the air to this day. [6] 7 pm: The first edition of Channel 4 News, the UK's first hour-long news programme.