Countdown
Countdown is a British game show, presented by Richard Whiteley[?] with the assistance of Carol Vorderman[?], and shown on Channel 4. It was the very first programme aired by that station when it was launched on 2nd November 1982.At the time of writing (December 2002), the programme is broadcast from 16:15 to 17:00 every weekday, with each programme repeated in the early hours of the morning about two and a half days later.
Countdown is based on the French game show Des Chiffres et Des Lettres[?] (Digits and Letters). It was originally broadcast in the Yorkshire Television[?] ITV region as Calendar Countdown - Calendar[?] being that region's local news magazine show which was, at the time, fronted by Whiteley. Yorkshire Television, now part of the Granada Television group, still makes Countdown for Channel Four.
Countdown, like most of the "old guard" of British game shows is never so much about winning prizes as simply competing (and possibly showing off to the nation how smart you are). The current prize fund tends to be a board game and other assorted items for every contestant and a full Oxford English Dictionary for the series winner, which is still a lot more than it used to be.
External links
- "The Countdown Page (http://www.thecountdownpage.com/)" by series 48 contestant Mike Brown
- A Countdown website (http://expage.com/dickengland/) by series 46 champion Benjemin Wilson
- "Countdown Update UK (http://mysite.freeserve.com/countdown_update_uk/)" by fan and series 49 contestant Martin Gardner (no relation of Martin Gardner the recreational mathematician)
- Gevin Chapwell's Yahoo! Group (http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/gevincountdown/) dedicated to discussion of the show
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good man seemed undecided, but he could not make up his mind about
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comes home I hope we shall be able to arrange matters:
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radiant, called his niece and proposed that we should take a stroll in
Rivet and he began to talk politics, while I soon found myself lagging a
the greatest precaution I began to speak to her about her adventure and
confused, and listened to me like a person who was enjoying the whole
you. You will have to appear in court, to encounter malicious looks, to
railway carriage in public. Do you not think, between ourselves, that it
in his place without calling for assistance, and merely to change your
but what could I do? I was frightened, and when one is frightened one
situation I was very sorry, that I had called out, but then it was too
madman, without saying a word and looking like a lunatic. I did not even
I said to myself: 'She is a queer sort of girl, that: I can quite see how
mademoiselle, confess that he was excusable, for, after all, a man cannot
natural desire to kiss her.'
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expression to use, although it was not very clear, and I asked abruptly:
to look at me from head to foot and then said calmly: 'Oh, you? That is
as everybody in the neighborhood called me 'Handsome Labarbe'--I was
shrugged her shoulders and replied: 'Well! because you are not so stupid
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