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It's Channel 4's 40th Birthday in November, and they've announced a 'Truth & Dare Season' to mark the occasion.
It includes a one-off revival of Friday Night Live hosted by Ben Elton.
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I wonder if there will be any 40th related pres for this milestone.
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Promo for Friday Night Live now airing
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They have some special hosts for Countdown: {resenters over the next 4 weeks from 31 October are: Baroness Floella Benjamin, Sir Trevor McDonald, Reverend Richard Coles and Moira Stuart CBE.
PLUS: first continuity announcer, Paul Coia, will return to introduce the show.
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Seems interesting choices for presenters seeing as none of them are presenters I assosiate with Channel 4. Three of them are to me BBC faces, and Trevor very much ITV (I guess he may have appeared on Channel 4 news as well, in the early days when they interchanged more with ITV News presenters and reporters, but he's very much connected with ITV News).
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I’m not sure I understand the point. Countdown currently has an excellent host in Colin Murray. None of these people are considered Channel 4 ‘names’ so it’s not even a Channel 4 theme.
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(27-10-2022, 10:12 PM)all new phil Wrote: I’m not sure I understand the point. Countdown currently has an excellent host in Colin Murray. None of these people are considered Channel 4 ‘names’ so it’s not even a Channel 4 theme.
Well I'm sorry but I don't think Colin is suited to Countdown, in my opinion he's too young.
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(27-10-2022, 10:25 PM)BBCMeridian Wrote: (27-10-2022, 10:12 PM)all new phil Wrote: I’m not sure I understand the point. Countdown currently has an excellent host in Colin Murray. None of these people are considered Channel 4 ‘names’ so it’s not even a Channel 4 theme.
Well I'm sorry but I don't think Colin is suited to Countdown, in my opinion he's too young.
Even though he's 7 years older than Richard Whiteley was in 1982.
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(27-10-2022, 10:11 PM)James2001 Wrote: Seems interesting choices for presenters seeing as none of them are presenters I assosiate with Channel 4. Three of them are to me BBC faces, and Trevor very much ITV (I guess he may have appeared on Channel 4 news as well, in the early days when they interchanged more with ITV News presenters and reporters, but he's very much connected with ITV News).
Trevor was actually the regular co-host of Channel 4 News in its early days. He used to do the international news. The other co-host was Sarah Hogg, who looked after financial news, and of course the main man was the late, great Peter Sissons.
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(27-10-2022, 10:25 PM)BBCMeridian Wrote: (27-10-2022, 10:12 PM)all new phil Wrote: I’m not sure I understand the point. Countdown currently has an excellent host in Colin Murray. None of these people are considered Channel 4 ‘names’ so it’s not even a Channel 4 theme.
Well I'm sorry but I don't think Colin is suited to Countdown, in my opinion he's too young.
I don’t care.
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(27-10-2022, 10:25 PM)BBCMeridian Wrote: (27-10-2022, 10:12 PM)all new phil Wrote: I’m not sure I understand the point. Countdown currently has an excellent host in Colin Murray. None of these people are considered Channel 4 ‘names’ so it’s not even a Channel 4 theme.
Well I'm sorry but I don't think Colin is suited to Countdown, in my opinion he's too young.
Colin's passion and enthusiasm for the show shines through, he's the perfect host.
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