Who replaced Jeff Stelling as host of Channel 4's Countdown?
"Stelling was confirmed as the new host, with Oxford graduate Rachel Riley in the Vorderman role. It was announced on 24 May 2011 that Stelling would be leaving the programme, and he presented his final show on 16 December 2011. On 16 November 2011, it was announced that Nick Hewer would be taking over as host, with his first show broadcast on 9 January 2012. ""Countdown"" quickly established cult status within British television – an image which it maintains today, despite numerous changes of rules and personnel. The programme's audience comprises mainly students, homemakers and pensioners, owing to the ""teatime"""
"new host of the Channel 4 game show ""Countdown"" following the departure of Des O'Connor. He had reportedly also been approached for the role following the death of long-time host Richard Whiteley, but the role was given to former fellow sports presenter Des Lynam instead. Stelling began recording ""Countdown"" in December 2008, with the show's new assistant Rachel Riley, and started broadcasting in January 2009. He also appears during an episode of ""The IT Crowd"" in the same role. However, it was announced on 25 May 2011 that Stelling would be stepping down as presenter of ""Countdown"" at the end"
"an exact solution in the numbers rounds if the contestants are unable to do so. Riley's appointment to ""Countdown"" was announced at the same time as the announcement of a new main host, Jeff Stelling, replacing Des O'Connor; the duo of Stelling and Riley were in place for the new series beginning in January 2009. Although she had no ambition to be a television presenter, she was encouraged to apply by her mother, and decided to do so because she was interested in the numbers part of the game. Having beaten 1,000 applicants for the role, she commented, ""There's only"
"revealed he had refused the job. Anthea Turner, Ulrika Jonsson, and Myleene Klass were all linked with Vorderman's job; however, Channel 4 then began to search for a previously unknown male or female arithmetician with ""charm and charisma"". Eventually, on 21 November 2008, after O'Connor and Vorderman had finished filming, it was confirmed that Stelling and Oxford maths graduate Rachel Riley would join the show, with Susie Dent continuing as resident lexicographer. ""Countdown"" has occupied a tea-time broadcast slot since its inception. Currently an episode lasts around 45 minutes including advertising breaks. During the normal series, the winner of each"
"presenter vacated by the recently deceased Richard Whiteley. Vorderman declined, and a search for a new presenter began while the show went into a four-month hiatus. In October 2005, Des Lynam replaced Whiteley and co-hosted with Vorderman. In January 2007 Des O'Connor replaced Lynam; Vorderman continued to co-host the show. On 25 July 2008, after 26 unbroken years with the show, it was announced that Vorderman was stepping down from ""Countdown"". She later said she had resigned after failing to agree terms with Channel 4 for a new contract, and it was reported that she had been asked to take"
"Steele will be replacing Michael Wilbon as host, ending Wilbon's 8-year run on Countdown. Magic Johnson and Michael Wilbon are slated to return to the program in January 2017 to join Sage Steele for pregame coverage for the ""NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC"" series. With the 2017 playoffs looming, ESPN replaced Sage Steele with Michelle Beadle as the host of NBA Countdown on ABC and ESPN. Beadle joined NBA Countdown at the start of the 2016-2017 season, and has led ESPN’s regular Wednesday and Friday episodes. Beadle has been named the full time host and will lead Disney’s NBA pre-game"
"Jeff Stelling Robert Jeffrey Stelling (born 18 March 1955) is an English sports journalist and sport television presenter. He currently presents ""Gillette Soccer Saturday"" for Sky Sports and hosted their coverage of the Champions League between 2011 and 2015. He also presented the Channel 4 quiz show ""Countdown"" (2009–2011) and ITV game show ""Alphabetical"" (2016–present). Stelling was brought up in a council house in Hartlepool. He attended Rift House Primary School and West Hartlepool Grammar School. After leaving school his first job was as a journalist at the ""Hartlepool Mail"" where he remained for four years. His first broadcasting position"
"as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations. Amongst the programmes that were chosen to be merged for the evening of specials, production teams on ""Countdown"" and ""8 Out of 10 Cats"" agreed to merge the two formats of their respective programmes together - the crossover between the two formats meant that ""Countdown""s arrangement of games would be interspersed with ""8 Out of 10 Cats""-style banter. As part of the merger, both Rachel Riley and Susie Dent assumed their roles from the programme, while Jimmy Carr took on the mantle of host, with both Sean Lock and Jon Richardson competing as"
"on BBC One. On 18 December 2014, Hewer revealed that he had decided to leave the show after the tenth series, believing it to be ""the appropriate time"". On 9 January 2012, Hewer became the new host of the Channel 4 game show ""Countdown"" taking over from Sports presenter Jeff Stelling. In July 2012, Hewer presented a four-part series on BBC Two called ""The Farm Fixer"", where he assisted farmers in Northern Ireland in diversifying. Hewer also presented two BBC One series ""The Town that Never Retired"" and ""We All Pay Your Benefits"" with Margaret Mountford. On 28 August 2013,"
"of ""Countdown"". Magic Johnson, Jon Barry, Michael Wilbon, Bill Simmons, and Chris Broussard have previously served as analysts for ""NBA Countdown"". For the 2016–17 season, Mark Jones replaced Mike Tirico as part of the secondary broadcast team with Hubie Brown as Tirico left for NBC. Also, Doug Collins left NBA Countdown and joined ESPN's roster of game analysts, returning to a position he previously held while working with NBC and TNT. Steele was replaced as host by Michelle Beadle during the season. After the 1990s (when the NBA arguably reached its highest point in terms of popularity) many hardcore and"
"stated that they were removing both Olbermann and Chris Matthews as live political event anchors, and replacing them with David Gregory, due to growing criticism that they were ""too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign"". Olbermann continued to broadcast ""Countdown"" both before and after the presidential and vice-presidential debates, and both Matthews and Olbermann joined Gregory on the channel's election night coverage. In September 2009, a Pew Research Poll showed that Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to rate the channel favorably and Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to see"
"who would like to become a game show hostess. Unlike almost any other game show hostess of the time, however, the advertisement also made it clear that the applicants' appearance would be less important than their talent as a mathematician. Gradually the tasks performed by the extra presenters were taken over by Carol Vorderman, whose role within the show essentially became that of co-presenter. Whiteley fell ill with septicaemia in 2005, and as a result he was no longer able to record ""Countdown"". Although Whiteley made a slow recovery from his illness, he died on 26 June 2005, after a"
"broadcast slot and inclusive appeal of its format and presentation. ""Countdown"" has been one of Channel 4's most-watched programmes for over twenty years, but has never won a major television award. When Des Lynam became the new presenter after Whiteley's death in 2005, the show regularly drew an average 1.7 million viewers every day—which was around half a million more than in the last few years of Richard Whiteley presenting—and the Series 54 final, on 26 May 2006, attracted 2.5 million viewers. From 3–4 million viewers had watched the show daily in its previous 16:15 slot. The drop in viewers"
"show, NBA Shootaround). After only two broadcasts, Mark Jackson moved to game coverage exclusively, and was replaced by Jon Barry. In 2008, the show was renamed ""NBA Countdown"", and Patrick, who left ESPN, was replaced by Stuart Scott, joining Bill Walton, Michael Wilbon, and Barry as a contributor/fill-in. For the 2008-2009 season (beginning with the Christmas Day doubleheader), Barry replaced Walton full-time, Avery Johnson became the fourth member of the studio team, and Magic Johnson joined the show doing feature interviews and occasionally joining the studio crew as a panelist. For the 2010-2011 season, Hannah Storm joined Scott as they"
"June 2009. In November 2009, it was announced that Lance would leave CMT and the Top 20 Countdown at the end of the year and return to acting. On August 6, 2012, Lance joined the program, ""The Daily Buzz"", alongside actor Charles Divins; veteran TV anchor Lisa Spooner; and radio personality Jessica Reyes, replacing Andy Campbell, Mitch English, and Kia Malone, thus being the new on-air team. Original co-host Andrea Jackson remains with the program, though now serves as a technology expert and correspondent for the GalTime feature segments. In July 2015, the Studio 18 Podcast launched with Smith as"
"in November 1982, and bought the newly renamed ""Countdown"" on the strength of this additional episode. ""Countdown"" was the first programme to be broadcast on the new channel. Channel 4 originally planned a parallel ""Junior Countdown"" in which the contestants were children. The pilot episode was filmed on 26 November 1982, less than a month after the first adult version was broadcast. The presenter was Gyles Brandreth, with Ted Moult in Dictionary Corner. The format mirrored that of the adult version. No further episodes were filmed, and the pilot episode was never broadcast. Brandreth, speaking on ""Countdown"" in November 2012,"
"4 broadcasts consists of host Clive Anderson along with two guests and the two regular contestants, Stephen Fry and John Sessions. Clive Anderson stayed on as host when the show moved to television, with John Sessions resuming his role as the only regular in the first series. He subsequently became a rotating regular in the second and third series. However he appears only twice in the third series, these being his final appearances. Stephen Fry appears only occasionally on the television series. Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie first appear in the second and third series respectively; they each gradually increase"
"history. Garrett was delighted to discover that the musical gene stretched far back and had run in her family for several generations. Garrett is a veteran of Dictionary Corner on the Channel 4 game show ""Countdown"" and in June 2005 it was thought that she was to become one of the show's rotating guest hosts while Richard Whiteley was recovering from illness. After Whiteley's death, however, the plan for rotating guest hosts was abandoned and Des Lynam took the role for the next fifteen months. Garrett did not appear on Countdown again until October 2009. On Christmas Day 2004 BBC"
"meaning the best politics is the better idea. And, we cannot restrict ourselves in the political dialogue to sourcing ideas from the politicians and pundits."" Originally, Newsom asked Current TV if they would let him use their equipment to do a YouTube channel; they rejected that request, with a proposal instead that he do his show on their network. The show was a replacement for ""Countdown with Keith Olbermann"" and premiered on May 18, 2012, with guests Lance Armstrong, Marissa Mayer, and Nick Bilton. On January 2nd, 2013 it was announced that the show was going off the air. According"
"stated that the concept had proved disastrous, and was abandoned. ""Calendar Countdown"" was presented by Richard Whiteley, with Cathy Hytner and Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks managing the numbers and letters rounds respectively. When ""Countdown"" was commissioned for Channel 4, the number of hostesses expanded further: Cathy Hytner and Beverley Isherwood selected the letters and numbers tiles respectively, and calculations in the numbers rounds were checked by Linda Barrett or Carol Vorderman. Vorderman, a Cambridge graduate and member of Mensa, was appointed as one of the numbers experts after responding to an advertisement in a national newspaper which asked for a young woman"
"and the ""Monday Night Countdown"" crew did the show on November 21 from Estadio Azteca in Mexico City for the game between the Oakland Raiders and Houston Texans, and December 12 from Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. This was also Berman's final season as a host for ESPN's NFL-themed studio shows. Suzy Kolber was named host of ""Monday Night Countdown"" on March 23, 2017. She replaced Chris Berman, who departed after 30 seasons of hosting NFL-themed studio shows, though he still appeared in occasional segments. In addition to her pregame duties, Kolber now hosts all halftime and post-game shows, normally"
"11, Olbermann announced that ""Daily Kos"" founder Markos Moulitsas, filmmakers Michael Moore and Ken Burns, and comedian Richard Lewis would become contributors to the new ""Countdown"". During a June 16 interview on NBC's ""Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"", Olbermann further announced that journalists Matt Taibbi and Jeremy Scahill, former Nixon administration official and author John Dean, actor Donald Sutherland, and astronomer Derrick Pitts would also be contributors. On June 20, ""Countdown"" aired its first episode on Current TV, concluding with an abbreviated ""Special Comment"" in which Olbermann outlined his mission statement, quoting Harriet Beecher Stowe. The program drew 179,000 viewers,"
"ESPN's Bristol studios, which shares the same set as ""Sunday NFL Countdown"" and ""NFL Primetime"". However, the ""Monday Night Football"" graphics package is still used, but the rundown graphic was changed to match the one used on ""SportsCenter"". 1 week later (September 15, 2014), ""Monday Night Countdown"" moved up to the 6:00 p.m. ET timeslot, which resulted in ""SportsCenter Monday Kickoff"" not returning for the 2014 season and moving the 6:00 p.m. ET edition of ""SportsCenter"" to ESPN2 on Mondays during the NFL season. Suzy Kolber, who substituted for the then-ailing Stuart Scott during most of the 2014 season, took"
"a Clinton staffer in which he defended his remarks. On April 6, 2010, MSNBC announced that it had suspended Shuster for an ""indefinite period"" after the network learned from press reports that he and Michel Martin of National Public Radio, had taped a pilot episode for a new show on CNN without the formal approval of MSNBC. On June 6, 2011, Keith Olbermann and Current TV announced that Shuster was hired to serve as ""primary substitute anchor"" for the network's re-launch of ""Countdown with Keith Olbermann"". Starting July 29, 2011, David Shuster became a regular guest-host of ""Countdown"". The series"
"1979 and 1999, the annual year-end countdown show was cut to one week (4 hours) to accommodate the special countdown, though in 2009, they aired a third special week after their usual two-week Top 100. The decade-end shows counted down the Top 50 of the 1970s, and the Top 40s of the 1990s and 2000s. There was no decade-end countdown for the 1980s. Over 50 celebrities—among them radio personalities, game show hosts, and (particularly since Ryan Seacrest took over hosting duties) charting artists—have substituted for these three throughout the show's run. Radio announcer Charlie Van Dyke filled in for Casey"
"two weeks prior to Kolber's arrival, Brent Musburger was mysteriously absent from his position as lead host of ""NASCAR Countdown"" on the ABC/ESPN network. On the week of the race on May 19, ESPN gave no reason for his absence but announced Kolber as the new host of Nextel Cup and Busch Series studio programming. She was subsequently replaced by Allen Bestwick as host of ""NASCAR Countdown"". After substituting for the then-ailing Stuart Scott during most of the 2014 NFL season, Kolber took over Scott's role permanently as an on-site host of ""Monday Night Countdown"", starting with the 2015 NFL"
"Samantha Ponder Samantha Ponder (née Steele) (born December 11, 1985) is an American sportscaster who is currently the host of ""Sunday NFL Countdown"" on ESPN. Prior to hosting Sunday NFL Countdown, Ponder worked as a reporter/host for ESPN college football and as a basketball sideline reporter. Ponder replaced Erin Andrews on ""College GameDay"" Saturdays at 10 AM ET on ESPN, as well as co-host of the Saturday 9 AM ET edition on ESPNU. In addition to her duties on College Gameday, Ponder had been the regular sideline reporter for ESPN's Thursday Night College Football with Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, and"
"Richard Whiteley 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 montage). Despite his intelligence, Whiteley enjoyed projecting the image of an absent-minded eccentric. His trademarks were his jolly, avuncular manner, his fondness for puns, and his bold, sometimes garish wardrobe. Thanks to over twenty years' worth of nightly"
"network) after seventeen years in the booth between the Sunday and Monday Night packages, and former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and current Philadelphia Soul (AFL) president Ron Jaworski took his place alongside Mike Tirico and Tony Kornheiser. Part of the reason that Jaworski replaced Theismann was because of his chemistry with Kornheiser on ""Pardon the Interruption"", where Jaworski was a frequent guest during the football season. NBC’s ""Football Night in America"" also made two changes. MSNBC ""Countdown"" anchor Keith Olbermann joined Bob Costas and Cris Collinsworth as another co-host, while Sterling Sharpe exited as a studio analyst, and former New York"
"by Samantha Ponder (and in 2017 by Maria Taylor after Ponder left to become host of ""Sunday NFL Countdown"" that same year). In 2015, Rece Davis (also host of the college basketball version of ""GameDay"") replaced Chris Fowler as host of the show. In 2010, the program was expanded from two to three hours, with the opening hour broadcast on ESPNU until 2013. The show is known for its prediction segment that appears at the end of each broadcast. Typically there are four predictors: Corso, Herbstreit, Howard, and an invited guest, usually a celebrity, prominent athlete, or radio personality associated"
"co-host, who had also been on the programme since it began, left the show in December 2008, at the same time as Des O'Connor. She was replaced by Rachel Riley. Cathy Hytner originally placed letters on the board for the letters games and in series 1 and 2 Beverly Isherwood placed the numbers up on the board from series 3 Cathy Hytner put the numbers up on the board, in 1987 Karen Loughlin took over from Hytner but only lasted 3 series after this Lucy Summers took over but she only lasted 3 months and Countdown stayed they couldn’t be"
"the end of the previous contract, which ended in 2014, but had also stated he will stay on with the show if asked (and subsequently did so). Letterman was succeeded by Stephen Colbert, who had hosted Comedy Central's ""The Colbert Report"" since 2005. Craig Ferguson retired from late night on December 19, 2014; on September 8, 2014, British comedian James Corden was announced as the new host of ""The Late Late Show"" beginning in 2015. Jon Stewart's contract with Comedy Central also expired in 2015, at which point Stewart retired from on-camera work (later moving to Colbert's ""The Late Show"""
"a cut of 90% from her previous salary, estimated as £900,000. She had considered leaving the show when the show's original host Richard Whiteley died in 2005, but remained on the show when Lynam took over, and until 2008 when his eventual replacement O'Connor announced he was also to step down as the show's host. Vorderman and O'Connor both left the show in December 2008. Vorderman recorded her last ""Countdown"" show on 13 November 2008 which was broadcast on 12 December 2008. Both her children were in the audience, together with many of the previous guests from ""Dictionary Corner"". After"