"Nick Hewer Nicholas Radbourn Hewer (born 17 February 1944) is an English television presenter and former public relations consultant. From 2005 to 2014, he appeared as Lord Sugar's adviser on the British television series ""The Apprentice"". Since January 2012, he has presented the Channel 4 programme ""Countdown"" with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, having taken over from Jeff Stelling. He is the fifth presenter of ""Countdown"" and the longest-serving one since the death of the original host, Richard Whiteley, in 2005. Hewer was born in Swindon on 17 February 1944. His mother was Mary Patricia Hewer (née Jamison; 1918 -"
"member since 2008), Vanessa Bayer (a cast member since 2010), and Sasheer Zamata (a cast member since 2014) left the cast. To fill out the cast, the show hired three new cast members, who became featured players: Heidi Gardner of The Groundlings, iO Chicago alum Luke Null, and stand-up comedian Chris Redd, who previously did sketch comedy at Second City. Redd had been incorrectly reported as joining the cast during the previous season. With this announcement came the confirmation that the rest of the cast from the previous season would return, including guest star Alec Baldwin in his role as"
"OHL season. In 2001, she was chosen to be a part of ""U8TV: The Lofters"", a Canadian reality show where eight strangers lived together in a Toronto loft while also producing and hosting their own online television shows. After her year in the loft ended, she made appearances on TSN's talk show ""Off the Record with Michael Landsberg"", before joining TSN in 2002 as co-anchor of ""SportsCentre's"" 11pm and 2am ET broadcasts. In addition to her TSN duties, Hedger had cameo roles in the pilot episode of the TV series ""Whistler"" and an episode of ""Corner Gas"", both of which"
"Hedger. In 1998, Helliar became a regular on Melbourne community television RMITV's weekly variety show ""The Loft Live"" broadcast on C31 Melbourne, hosted by Rove McManus and including other well known Melbourne comedians such as Dave Hughes, Kim Hope, and Dave Callan. He appeared as a live on-screen guest as well as scripting and recording skits for live playback. Helliar rose to national attention in 1999, when he became a regular (aka side-kick) to Rove McManus on ""Rove"", which aired on the Nine Network. In 2000, the show moved networks to Channel Ten, where Helliar and the show remained until"
"was exhausting them, and that they would soon depart from the show. From Season 7 onwards the show would never have such a high number of episodes again. The three actors remained with the show until the conclusion of the final season six serial ""The War Games"". Nicholas Courtney reappears as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in ""The Invasion"", last seen (as a Colonel) in ""The Web of Fear"". He would soon make regular appearances in the program beginning with season 7's ""Spearhead from Space"". John Levene makes his first appearance as Corporal Benton in ""The Invasion"". He would continue to make regular"
"return to television. He tested out for ""The Drew Carey Show"", but did not initially want to be cast in it. He told Kevin Smith that he wanted to drive up his price for the pilot of ""Partners"". Bader lost out on the role of Bob to Jon Cryer and then learned ""The Drew Carey Show"" wanted to hire him to play Oswald Lee Harvey. The role of Mimi Bobeck went to Kathy Kinney. The actress was originally intended to be a one-episode guest star, but became a series regular when Helford noticed during editing of the pilot that the"
"in New York City as an investigative reporter in June 2013. Leitner joined WMAQ-TV in Chicago in March 2014 as an investigative reporter. Leitner joined ""NBC Nightly News"" in early June, 2016. Leitner is currently a contributor with MSNBC's ""The Rachel Maddow Show"". Leitner was a participant in the 4th edition of the reality TV-program """", which was filmed in late 2001 and aired in 2002. She was the tenth contestant voted off, lasting 30 of 39 days and winning two individual immunity challenges. Leitner is also an accomplished athlete and a member of PowerBar Team Elite. She finished first"
"Her television work includes the reality television series ""Celebrity Love Island"", ""I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!"", ""Celebrity Paranormal Project"", and ""Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling""; being a sideline reporter for the CBS tournament blackjack series ""Ultimate Blackjack Tour""; and co-hosting the comedy show ""The Grill"" with Vernon Kay. She has also appeared on The Howard Stern Show, and she was the team captain of the 2004 Los Angeles Temptation squad for the Lingerie Bowl. Her work in film includes ""American Wedding"", ""National Lampoon's Spring Break"", and ""National Lampoon's Gold Diggers"". Schieler converted to Judaism before marrying Ian Ziering"
"seen in ""E.B.E."", would become regular characters beginning the second season, eventually starring in the spin-off series ""The Lone Gunmen""; whilst the episode ""Tooms"" introduced Walter Skinner, portrayed by Mitch Pileggi, who would go on to be billed as a series star by the ninth season. The abduction of Mulder's sister Samantha was explored in the episodes ""Pilot"", ""Conduit"", and ""Miracle Man"", and would go on to become one of the central themes of the series as a whole. California native Chris Carter was given the opportunity to produce new shows for the Fox network in the early 1990s. Tired"
"a different primetime host(s): Paula Zahn and Tim McCarver in 1992, Greg Gumbel in 1994, and Jim Nantz in 1998. As with NBC, CBS decided that it needed help to defray the increasing costs of broadcast rights. CBS's Winter Games coverage was shared with TNT, which aired events under the promotional slogan ""The ultimate daytime drama."" Nick Charles and Fred Hickman hosted the coverage from Turner's Atlanta studios in 1992 and 1994, while Jim Lampley was the host in 1998. While CBS had the top choice of events and had their own feed, TNT had to do with the world"
"limited presence at that time; a joke even floated around that CBS was ""the network for the living dead"" during this period. In 1993, the network made a breakthrough in establishing a successful late-night talk show franchise to compete with NBC's ""The Tonight Show"" when it signed David Letterman away from NBC after the ""Late Night"" host was passed over as Johnny Carson's successor on ""Tonight"" in favor of Jay Leno. Despite having success with ""Late Show with David Letterman"", 1993 saw the network suffer to a time where television changed forever. The network lost the rights to two major"
"network's flagship outlet, WNBC-TV in his hometown. Roker returned to New York City in late 1983 as a weekend weathercaster, and within eight months became the station's regular weeknight weathercaster. Roker replaced 27-year WNBC-TV veteran Dr. Frank Field, who left the network over a contract dispute. From 1983 to 1996, Roker was the regular substitute for forecaster Joe Witte on the NBC News program ""NBC News at Sunrise"", and from 1990 to 1995, filled in for Willard Scott, Bryant Gumbel and Matt Lauer on the ""Today Show"". In 1995, he became the host of ""The Al Roker Show"", a weekend"
"in American primetime television behind ""Desperate Housewives"" and ""Lost"". Although NBC's first-season cast page listed only ten characters, Leonard Roberts, who first appeared in the series' fifth episode as D. L. Hawkins, was an additional member of the original full-time cast. In episode eleven of the first season, Jack Coleman, who portrays Noah Bennet, was upgraded from a recurring role to become the twelfth full-time cast member. These are the people who remained major characters during all four seasons: During the first two seasons, some characters were written out to make room for new characters with new stories. In season"
"Matt Cornett - ""Southland"" - Turner Network<br> ★ Matthew J. Evans - ""Lab Rats"" - Disney XD ★ Danika Yarosh - ""1600 Penn"" - NBC ★ Joshua Carlon - ""Sam & Cat"" - Nickelodeon ★ Ava Cantrell - ""The Haunted Hathaways"" - Nickelodeon<br> ★ Lexi DiBenedetto - ""Grey's Anatomy"" - ABC ★ Christian Distefano - ""Murdoch Mysteries"" - CBC ★ Jena Skodje - """" - The Hub Network ★ Mikey Reid - ""Victorious"" - Nickelodeon ★ Kelly Heyer - ""Raising Hope"" - FOX ★ William Monette - ""30 Vies"" - Radio-Canada (TV) ★ Kayla Maisonet - ""Dog with a Blog"""
"he appeared in the British soap (broadcast on the ITV network) ""Coronation Street"" playing the charming escort Lewis Archer, who woos Audrey Roberts. In November 2010 Havers became a contestant on the tenth series of ""I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!"", which started on 14 November 2010. A week after the first episode of the series was aired, it emerged on ITV morning show ""DayBreak"", that Nigel Havers had walked from the jungle. As a guest star in the 2011 Christmas Special episode of the worldwide hit television show Downton Abbey, Havers portrayed Lord Hepworth, a charming and"
"for KingWorld. ""The Eric Tunney Show"" had guests like Lynne Russell and Jeanne Beker and was slated to replace Oprah in afternoon syndication, but did not receive extended production. Fellow Canadian comic Brent Piaskoski, a writer living in L.A., said Tunney had greatly impressed Hollywood with a guest host appearance on NBC's ""Later"" in 1996. The replacement host job eventually went to Rita Devers. In 1997, Tunney and his wife moved to L.A. to, he became the writer and sidekick on the short-lived syndicated talk show ""Home Team"" with Terry Bradshaw. In 1998 with Broadway Video he hosted a talk"
"the artists perform ""live"" on stage in the episodes at the series' Last Run Tavern (previously known as the McKaye Tavern in Season 1). Whistler (TV series) Whistler is a Canadian television drama centring on the aftermath of the mysterious death of a local snowboard legend. The series was set in the ski resort of the same name and aired for two seasons from 2006 to 2008. It was created by Kelly Senecal and developed by Patrick Banister, John Barbisan, Mindy Heslin, and Susan James. The show begins when Beck McKaye (David Paetkau of ""Final Destination 2"" and ""Flashpoint"") returns"
"impersonations, including Bill Clinton and Chris Matthews. The ensemble from the 1995–96 season was mostly unchanged for the 1996–97 season, save for the firing of David Koechner and Nancy Walls, as well as the departure of David Spade. Tim Meadows became the longest-running cast member this season. Tracy Morgan and Ana Gasteyer both joined the cast, taking the places of Koechner and Walls. Mark McKinney left at the end of this season. The ensemble from the 1996–97 season remained substantially unchanged for the 1997–98 season. Jim Breuer would leave the show after this season, later blaming then-head writer Adam McKay,"
"also initially reprised his role as Jimmy Cooper, but was written out of the series in the seventh episode. However Donovan returned with Jimmy as a guest star in the season finale. Alan Dale, as newly wed Caleb Nichol, joined the main cast, having previously been a recurring role. Former main cast member Chris Carmack, who portrayed Luke Ward, only guest starred in the first episode. Nicholas Gonzalez (as D.J.), Michael Cassidy (as Zach Stevens), Shannon Lucio (as Lindsay Gardner) and Olivia Wilde (as Alex Kelly) all took up recurring roles in the show as love interests of existing characters,"
"Season Two, as he was dating Guillo. Mid-way through the second season, the show was cancelled in June 2002. Although the show's ratings on television were strong, the production costs associated with streaming live video over the internet were too high at the time for the show and online TV channel to survive. A few former lofters have gone on to successful television gigs, most notably Season One's Jennifer Hedger who is now an anchor on TSN's popular ""SportsCentre"" (and in this role made an appearance on the sitcom ""Corner Gas""). David Keystone became the host of Corus Entertainment's cooking"
"June 2012, it was formally announced that Behar would be getting another talk show, """", premiering September 4, 2012 on the Current TV network. Its content is expected to be in line with her previous HLN series. Before the new show's launch, Behar began acting as fill-in host for Eliot Spitzer's Current TV talk show, ""Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer"", starting on July 18, 2012. The show ended in August 2013 due to Current TV being purchased by Al Jazeera and being replaced by Al Jazeera America. Behar's new weekly late night talk show, ""Late Night Joy"", premiered on TLC on"
"the next day. Snyder's slot on ""The NFL Today"" would subsequently be filled by Dick Butkus for the next two seasons. After the 1989 NFL season, Musburger was abruptly fired on April 1, 1990 following a power shift at CBS (he later resurfaced at ABC), while Cross was demoted to the position of game analyst. They were replaced by former ESPN football analyst and WFAN morning host Greg Gumbel (brother of then-""Today"" co-host Bryant Gumbel), legendary former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw and longtime sportswriter Lesley Visser (then the wife of CBS announcer Dick Stockton), bringing a female reporter back"
"own late night show. He spent a brief spell at London's LBC and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio, before moving to Leeds in 1981 and the fledgling Radio Aire. He left Radio Aire in late 1982, and worked for Yorkshire TV for a time on a programme called ""Calendar It's The Weekend"". He was also a co-presenter on ""BBC Breakfast"". Other television excursions for Kelner include ""Brainwave"", a daytime quiz show and ""Pick of the Week"". His daughter, Martha, won the 2013 Young Sportswriter Award, and is a regular pundit on BBC Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk. His younger brother is the"
"began to appear after episodes of ""Tattoo Fixers"" from February 2016 and the series began on 13 September 2016. Airing from April 2017, ""Tattoo Artist of the Year"" will be judged by Jay Hutton and Rose Hardy. Tattoo Fixers Tattoo Fixers is a British reality television series based in Hackney in London, broadcast on E4, from 23 June 2015. The series follows helping members of public cover up some of the rudest and crudest tattoos. The original cast included Jay Hutton, Sketch Porter, Lou Hopper and Paisley Billings. For the second series, Hopper was replaced by Alice Perrin. As of"
"role as the similar character Nicki. In May 2013, NBC placed a series order for ""Undateable"". After the series was ordered, Wilkas left and was replaced with David Fynn in the role of Brett. When both ""Undateable"" and ""Ground Floor"", which stars Heelan, were picked up as series, Megan Park was cast to replace Heelan in the Nicki role. However, by September of that year, the producers were able to arrange the schedules of the two shows so that Heelan could appear on ""Undateable"" as Nicki on a recurring basis, and she replaced Park. In March 2014, Lawrence, Morin, Glassman,"
"is now produced. Additionally, episodes of ""Truth"" announced by Kalter were taped in NBC Studio 6A, where Letterman later originated ""Late Night"", and by coincidence, Kalter would replace Bill Wendell as announcer on both ""Truth"" and the ""Late Show"". Kalter was also the announcer for the 45th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, held in New York in 2003. On the ""Late Show,"" Kalter regularly performed in scripted comedy bits in addition to his announcing duties. He was often portrayed alternately as a sexual deviant (often while grinning mischievously) or as a powerless sap who was beaten to within an inch of"
"Carvey, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers and Kevin Nealon) also remained popular with audiences. Nealon succeeded Miller as ""Weekend Update"" anchor. For the remainder of his tenure, Nealon found himself playing the straight man during ""Update"" and other sketches, particularly against the newer cast members. His participation in that role increased after Carvey, Hartman, and Myers left the show. Myers introduced many popular new characters during this period, including Linda Richman, host of a talk show ""Coffee Talk"". Meanwhile, Hartman, who had impersonated President Ronald Reagan on the show, began appearing regularly with his impression of Democratic candidate and soon-to-be President"
"he played the character of Larry Hadges. Merv Hughes also starred in the series 2 episode ""Workin' Class Man"". Other guest stars appeared in mock-ups of their own shows: Mike Moore appeared on fictitious episodes of ""Burke's Backyard"" with Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and ""The AFL Footy Show"" with Sam Newman. Stuart Littlemore, who at the time was hosting the media commentary show ""Media Watch"", appeared in several fictitious episodes as a critic of ""Frontline"". ""Frontline"" broke new ground for Australian situation comedy, by adopting some innovative production strategies. Its rapid production schedule was inspired by UK series"
"flagship television show. In its early years, WCW was buoyed by established NWA performers such as Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes, along with emerging stars like Lex Luger, and Sting, who would go on to be dubbed ""The Franchise of WCW"". In the mid-1990s, WCW dramatically improved its economic performance, largely due to the promotion of Eric Bischoff to Executive Producer; the hiring of renowned WWF stars Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, Diesel (Kevin Nash) and Razor Ramon (Scott Hall); the introduction of the ""Monday Nitro"" series on cable TV, and the resultant Monday Night Wars with the WWF's"
"originally supposed to host in 1988, but could not due to the Writer's Guild of America Strike and then Radner's death the following year. This season is also known for the return of such frequent hosts as Alec Baldwin (who last hosted in season 29 with musical guest Missy Elliott in 2003), Tom Hanks (who last hosted the first episode of season 22 with musical guest Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1996), and Steve Martin (who last hosted the first episode of season 20 with musical guest, Eric Clapton in 1994). This season saw the seventh death of a"
"appeared on NBC's ""The Today Show"" and VH1's ""VH1 News Presents: Reality Secrets Revealed"". During this time, he also was Supervising Producer of the CBS Primetime Special ""Dr. Phil’s Romance Rescue"". In 2006, Glazer was producer of Telemundo's ""Vas o No Vas"". In 2008, ""Wipeout"" producers hired Glazer was to find a “comic host replacement” for Elon Gold, eventually hiring John Henson. In the mid-2000s, Glazer was also known for event planning. Most notably, his creation of a nationwide event tour for Columbia Pictures ""Identity"", as well as TV Guide's SeenOn.com launch party, and other prominent media and press events"
"audience, was finally canceled in 1988. This included WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, a station that Paramount acquired in 1991. In the summer of 1993, David Letterman, who had spent over 13 years at NBC and the previous 11 as the host of the popular post-""Tonight Show"" program ""Late Night"", left the network due to his dissatisfaction with being passed over as host of ""The Tonight Show"" after the retirement of Johnny Carson in favor of Jay Leno the previous year. Letterman signed with CBS to do a late-night program which would compete head-to-head with ""The Tonight Show"", and which would also"
"This is a moot point, however, since the network never consulted a ""Tonight Show"" host about the choice of his successor: Paar was not consulted about Carson and Leno was not consulted about O'Brien or Fallon. Letterman, having had his heart set on the earlier time slot in spite of Leno's ratings success as recurring substitute host, left NBC (on Carson's advice) and joined rival network CBS. Their new program and entry into the late-night television universe, ""Late Show with David Letterman"", airing in the same slot, competed head to head against ""The Tonight Show"" with Leno in the host's"