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British television game showCountdownGenreCreated byBased onPresented byStarringTheme music composerCountry of originUnited KingdomOriginal language(s)EnglishNo. Of series81 (Regular)2 (Masters)2 (Celebrity)81 (overall)No. Of episodes7,207 (as of 18 November 2019) (inc. 42 specials)104 (Masters)8 (Celebrity)ProductionProduction location(s), (1982–2009), (2009–12), (2013–present)Camera setupRunning time36 mins (excluding adverts)45 mins (including adverts, 2001–present)24 mins (excluding adverts)30 mins (including adverts, 1982–2001)Production company(s)(1982–2004)(2004–09)(2009–)DistributorReleaseOriginal network(1982–2010) (Wales only)(2nd celebrity series)Picture format(2013–)(1999–)(1982–99)Original release2 November 1982 ( 1982-11-02) –presentChronologyRelated showsCelebrity CountdownExternal linksCountdown is a involving word and number tasks. It is broadcast on and is currently presented by, assisted by, with regular lexicographer. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and 81 series have been broadcast since its debut on 2 November 1982.

With over 7,000 episodes, Countdown is one of the longest-running game shows in the world, along with the original French version, (Numbers & Letters), which has been running on French television continuously since 1965. Countdown was initially recorded at for 27 years, before moving to Manchester-based in 2009. Following the development of, Countdown moved again in 2013 to the new purpose-built studios at,.The programme was presented by for over 20 years, until his death in June 2005. It was then presented by until the end of 2006, until the end of 2008, and until the end of 2011; Nick Hewer has presented the show since 2012., the show's co-host, who had 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, before this was taken over by Vorderman.A celebrity guest features in every programme (usually for five consecutive programmes) and provides an anecdote midway between the two advertisement breaks. The two contestants in each episode compete in three disciplines: ten, in which the contestants attempt to make the longest word possible from nine randomly chosen letters; four, in which the contestants must use to reach a random target number from six other numbers; and the conundrum, a round in which the contestants compete to solve a nine-letter.

During the series heats, the winning contestant returns the next day until they either lose or retire with eight wins as an undefeated 'Octochamp'. The best eight contestants are invited back for the series finals, which are decided in format.

Contestants of exceptional skill have received national media coverage and the programme, as a whole, is widely recognised and parodied within British culture. Contents.History Origin Countdown is based on the French game show ( Numbers and Letters), created.

The format was brought to Britain by Marcel Stellman, a Belgian record executive, who had watched the French show and believed it could be popular overseas. Purchased the format and commissioned a series of eight shows under the title Calendar Countdown, which was to be a spin-off of their regional news programme. As the presenter of Calendar, was the natural choice to present Calendar Countdown with his daily appearances on both shows earning him the nickname 'Twice Nightly Whiteley'. These shows were only broadcast in the area.An additional was made, with a refined format, although it was never broadcast.

A new British television channel, was due to launch 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. “As the countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new Countdown begins.”.

— introducing the first Channel 4 episode of Countdown. Junior Countdown 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, with 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, stated that the concept had proved disastrous, and was abandoned. Presenters.

Richard 'Twice Nightly' Whiteley, Countdown 's original presenter.Calendar Countdown was presented by, with Cathy Hytner and Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks managing the numbers and letters rounds respectively. When Countdown was commissioned for, 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. Vorderman, a graduate and member of, was appointed as one of the numbers experts after responding to an advertisement in a national newspaper which asked for a young woman 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 an applicant's 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 in 2005, and as a result he was no longer able to record Countdown.

Despite slowly making a recovery from his illness, he died on 26 June 2005, after a failed operation to correct a problem that had been detected in his heart. Channel 4 took the following show off the air as a mark of respect, and the next programme was preceded by a tearful tribute from Carol Vorderman. The final five shows Whiteley had filmed (the conclusion of Series 53) were aired, after which the show was placed on hiatus before returning in October 2005, with (who had featured on Celebrity Countdown in 1998) as the main presenter. On 30 September 2006, Lynam said that he had decided to leave the programme after 2006.Lynam's departure was owing to travel requirements for the demanding filming schedule; the show was recorded in, while he lived 250 miles (400 km) away in,. Channel 4 had tried an extra programme on Saturday in early 2006 which Lynam had agreed to, subject to part of the filming schedule being moved nearer to his home.

However, viewers reacted angrily to the idea of the show leaving Leeds, and when Lynam found out that a move would cause considerable disruption for many of the programme's crew, he decided to leave. On 7 November 2006, it was announced that would succeed Lynam as host.

Lynam's final show as Countdown presenter was broadcast on 22 December 2006. O'Connor first presented the show on 2 January 2007.The other studio mainstay is Dictionary Corner, which houses a and that week's celebrity guest (referred to as 'Guardian of the Dictionaries' or 'GoD'). Initially, farmer and broadcaster was on hand for verification. The role of the lexicographer is to verify the words offered by the contestants (see ) and point out any longer or otherwise interesting words available.

The lexicographer is aided in finding these words by the show's producers, Michael Wylie (until his death in November 2008) and Damian Eadie. The production team is insistent that no is used in this role, and that the words suggested in Dictionary Corner have been found manually.The lexicographer role used to rotate and many lexicographers have appeared over the years, including Richard Samson and Alison Heard.

However, since her debut in 1992, has become synonymous with the role, and has made over three thousand appearances, becoming the permanent lexicographer in 2003. The celebrity guest, sometimes known as the 'Dictionary Dweller', also contributes words, thus providing an entertaining and light-hearted parallel with the efforts of the contestants, and also provides a short interlude halfway through the second section of the show. These guests have included, and, and, most regularly, providing poems, anecdotes, puzzles and magic tricks.

Whilst Susie Dent was on maternity leave over the winter of 2007–08, Alison Heard replaced her on the programme; Dent returned to the series on 6 February 2008.It was announced in July 2008 that Des O'Connor would be stepping down as host that December. In the same month, Carol Vorderman announced that she would also leave the show at the same time.On 21 November 2008, was confirmed as the new host, with maths graduate taking Vorderman's former role. It was announced on 24 May 2011 that Stelling would reluctantly be leaving the programme, due to his football commitments with, and he presented his final show on 16 December 2011.On 16 November 2011, it was announced that would be taking over as host, with his first show broadcast on 9 January 2012. Character.

The studio used until 2017 after the end of a gameCountdown quickly established 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' broadcast slot and inclusive appeal of its format and presentation. Countdown has been one of Channel 4's most-watched programs 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 following the scheduling change, coupled with the show's perceived educational benefits, even caused to table a motion in the, requesting that the show be returned to its later time. Minor scheduling changes have subsequently seen the show move from 15:15 to 15:30, to 15:45 to 15:25, and 15:10.

As of 2018, it is broadcast at 14:10.On each episode, the prize for defeating the reigning champion is a teapot that is styled to resemble the 30-second time clock used in each round. Introduced in December 1998, the pot is custom-made and can only be obtained by winning a game on the programme. Defeated contestants receive an assortment of Countdown-themed merchandise as a parting gift.At first, the prize for the series winner was a leather-bound copy of the twenty-volume, worth over 4,000. Since 2011, the prize consists of ordinary hardback twenty-one-volume dictionaries, a laptop computer and a lifetime subscription to Oxford Online (replaced by a Bookpro laptop computer by series 68). Panorama of the 2017 set Celebrations The first episode of Countdown was repeated on 1 October 2007, on, and also on 2 November 2007, on Channel 4, as part of Channel 4 at 25, a season of celebratory Channel 4 programmes, as it celebrated its 25th birthday.On 2 November 2007 Countdown celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and aired a special 'birthday episode'. The two players were 2006 winner and 2002 winner.

However, for the rounds, guests selected the letters and numbers. Guests included,. A statement from the French TV network was read out on air by to commend on its success of Countdown.On 26 March 2010 congratulated Countdown for amassing 5,000 episodes. Contestant One declares 7, while Contestant Two declares 8. Contestant One reveals younger, but Contestant Two reveals hydrogen and scores 8 points.

Contestant One does not score. Dictionary Corner notes greyhound, which would have scored 18 points for using all nine letters. Numbers round The contestant in control chooses six of 24 shuffled face-down number tiles, arranged into two groups: 20 'small numbers' (two each of 1 through 10), and four 'large numbers' of 25, 50, 75 and 100.

Some special episodes replace the large numbers with 12, 37, 62 and 87. The contestant decides how many large numbers are to be used, from none to all four, after which the six tiles are randomly drawn and placed on the board. A random three-digit target number is then generated by an electronic machine, known as 'CECIL' (which stands for Countdown's Electronic Calculator In Leeds).

The contestants have 30 seconds to work out a sequence of calculations with the numbers whose final result is as close to the target number as possible. They may use only the four basic operations of, and, and do not have to use all six numbers. A number may not be used more times than it appears on the board. Fractions are not allowed, and only positive may be obtained as a result at any stage of the calculation. As in the letters rounds, any contestant who does not write down their calculations in time must go first if both declare the same result, and both contestants must show their work to each other if their results and calculations are identical.Only the contestant whose result is closer to the target number scores points: 10 for reaching it exactly, 7 for being 1–5 away, 5 for being 6–10 away. Contestants score no points for being more than 10 away, if their calculations are flawed, or if they take too long to give a solution after saying they have not written it down.

Both score if they reach the same result, or if their results are the same distance away. Should neither contestant reach the target exactly, the assistant is called upon to attempt a solution, either immediately or at a later time during the episode.Example: Contestant One requests two large numbers and four small numbers. Selection is:75 50 2 3 8 7. Contestant One declares 813, while Contestant Two declares 815. Contestant One is closer and so reveals: 75 + 50 – 8 = 117, and 117 × 7 – (3 × 2) = 813, which scores 7 points for being 1 away.

Contestant Two does not score. Assistant notes: 50 + 8 = 58, and 7 × 2 × 58 = 812, which would have scored 10 points.In some games, there are many ways to reach the target exactly—the example target above could also be reached by 7 × (75 + 50 + 2 – 8 – 3) = 812. Not all games are solvable, and for a few selections it is impossible even to get within 10, most commonly when a contestant picks six small numbers and the target number is quite large. There is a tactical element in selecting how many large numbers to include. One large and five small numbers is the most popular selection, despite two large numbers giving the best chance of the game being solvable exactly. Selections with zero or four large numbers are generally considered the hardest.The 24 tiles are laid out in four rows, the topmost of which contains only the four large numbers. The contestant may specify how many tiles to draw from each row, or simply state how many large and small numbers will be used; in the latter case, the assistant draws the tiles randomly.

The numbers are usually placed on the board from right to left, starting with the small ones, but have occasionally been displayed in scrambled order. On rare occasions, the contestant has declined to make any choices, in which case the assistant selects the tiles. Unlike the letters round, the pool of tiles is fully replenished after each numbers round.Example: Contestant requests one from the top (large), two from the second row (small), and three more from the top (large).

Selection is (in disorder):50 10 6 25 100 75. A special edition, broadcast on 15 March 2010, for two previous series champions, Kirk Bevins and Chris Davies, used instead of the usual four large numbers, the numbers 12, 37 and two numbers unrevealed for the duration of the show. In a further special broadcast on 16 August 2010 between the Series 59 finalists Charlie Reams and Junaid Mubeen, the other two numbers were revealed to be 62 and 87.Conundrum The final round of the game is the Countdown Conundrum, in which the contestants are shown a combination of two or three words with a total of nine letters.

They have 30 seconds to form a single word using all the letters, and must buzz in to respond (a bell for the champion, a buzzer for the challenger). Each contestant is allowed only one guess, and the first to answer correctly scores 10 points. If a contestant buzzes-in and either responds incorrectly or fails to give any response, the remaining time is given to the opponent. If neither contestant can solve it, the presenter asks whether anyone in the audience knows the answer and, if so, chooses someone to call it out. (This practice was stopped temporarily in 2009 due to difficulties with camera angles after the studio layout was changed.) The Conundrum is designed to have only one solution, but on occasion more than one valid word is found by happenstance (e.g.

REACH SORT can become both CARTHORSE and ORCHESTRA). If this happens, any of these results is accepted.If the contestants' scores are within 10 points of each other going into this round, it is referred to as a Crucial Countdown Conundrum. Since 10 points are at stake, the contestant who solves it will either win the game or force a tiebreaker. If the scores are tied after the Conundrum, additional Conundrums are played until the tie is broken. There have been several instances in which two Conundrums were used to decide the winner, but only a handful of episodes have required three. (There have also been cases when even more Conundrums have been required to provide a winner, but not all have been included in the transmitted programme.)Example: Conundrum is revealed:C H I N A L U N G.

Contestant One buzzes-in and says launching. This answer is revealed to be correct, and Contestant One scores 10 points.

Evolution The rules of Countdown are derived from those of. Perhaps the biggest difference is the length of the round; DCedL's number rounds are each 45 seconds long to Countdown's 30. DCedL also feature 'duels', in which players compete in short tasks such as mental arithmetic problems, extracting two themed words from another, or being asked to spell a word correctly. Other minor differences include a different numbers scoring system (9 points for an exact solution, or 6 points for the closest inexact solution in DCedL) and the proportion of letters to numbers rounds (10 to 4 in Countdown, 8 to 4 in DCedL).The followed significantly different rules from the current ones.

Most noticeably, only eight letters were selected for each letters round. If two contestants offered a word of the same length, or an equally close solution to a numbers game, then only the contestant who made the selection for that round was awarded points. Also, only five points were given for an exact numbers solution, three for a solution within 5, and one point for the closer solution, no matter how far away.The set design has changed over the years with the centrepiece of it always being the Countdown clock. The original set was used from its launch in 1982 until Series 17 in early 1989. A new upmarket brown set was introduced in Series 18 in July 1989 but only remained in use for less than 2 years. Series 22 from July 1991 saw the introduction of the familiar and long-lived 'Wings' set which was used in its original form until 1995.

Series 31 in January 1996 saw its colour scheme change to purple and changed again to tangerine at the end of 1999 alongside updated score displays. January 2003 saw the set updated to a new pink and purple striped theme with the letters and numbers boards now on separate islands rather than being integrated into the set.

6 years later in January 2009, the set received another redesign with a numerical blue theme and the letters and numbers boards mounted on opposite sides of a single display stand. New modern displays for the scores and the numbers round came in January 2013 while the set received a slight redesign in July 2017 while retaining the blue background which is currently in use.Until the end of Series 21, if the two contestants had equal scores after the first conundrum, the match was considered a draw and they both returned for the next show. A significant change in the format occurred in September 2001, when the show was expanded from nine rounds and 30 minutes to the current fifteen rounds and 45 minutes. The older format was split into two halves, each having three letters and one numbers game, with the conundrum at the end of the second half.

When the format was expanded to fifteen rounds, Richard Whiteley continued to refer jokingly to the three segments of the show as 'halves'. Under the old format, Grand Finals were specially extended shows of fourteen rounds, but now all shows use a fifteen-round format.The rules regarding which words are permitted have changed with time. Was allowed until 2002, and more unspecified inflections were assumed to be valid.In September 2007, an 'Origin of Words' feature was added to the show, in which Susie Dent explains the origin of a word or phrase she has been researching. This spot currently follows the eighth letters round, partway through the third section of each episode.

The feature was omitted during the time that Dent was absent for maternity leave, and was reinstated upon her return.When the 15-round format was first introduced in September 2001, the composition of the rounds was different from that used by the programme today. The three sections each had five rounds, four letters rounds and one numbers round in each of the first two sections, with three letters rounds, one numbers round and the conundrum in the third section.

This meant that there was a slight imbalance, whereby one contestant made the letters sections for six rounds, but had the choice of the numbers selection just once, whereas the other contestant chose letters five times and numbers twice. The Dictionary Corner guest's spot was immediately before the first advertising break, and Susie Dent's Origin of Words spot preceded the second numbers game shortly before the second break.

The change to the present format was made on 25 March 2013, three weeks into the second section of Series 68, to comply with Channel 4's decision to increase the amount of adverts and alter the times when they occur during the programme, therefore reducing Countdown's actual show length from 36 to 35 minutes.Notable contestants Since Countdown's debut in 1982, there have been over 7,000 televised games and 79 complete series. There have also been fifteen Champion of Champions tournaments, with the most recent held in January 2019.Several of Countdown's most successful contestants have received national media coverage. Teenager set a record score of 146 in December 2002. In 2006, 14-year-old became the youngest series champion in the show's history, and 11-year-old Kai Laddiman became the youngest octochamp for 20 years. Conor Travers went on to win the 30th Anniversary Champion of Champions series in March 2013 with a record equalling top score of 146. On 17 January 2019, in the quarter-final of the 15th Champion of Champions tournament Zarte Siempre, who eventually won that tournament, set a new record score of 150.

This record was beaten in May 2019 by Elliott Mellor's score of 152.At eight years old, Tanmay Dixit was the youngest player ever to appear on the show, where he achieved two wins in March 2005. He also received press attention for his offerings in the letters round, which included fannies and farted.On Christmas Day, 1987, Nic Brown set the highest score difference ever achieved in a standard 14-round game, beating Joel Salkin 108–36, a margin of 72 points. Brown also went on to become one of the only two contestants to ever achieve an undefeated 'grand slam' – becoming an Octochamp, winning a series, and winning a Championship of Champions.In April 2013, Giles Hutchings, a student at broke the record for the highest octochamp score, amassing 965 points over 8 games.

He went on to win series 68. The record was beaten by Dylan Taylor, who achieved an octochamp score of 974 in August 2013, but he lost the Grand Final of that series.

In 2019 the record was beaten by 87 points by teenager, Elliott Mellor, who became the first octochamp to break the 1000 point barrier, scoring a total of 1061 over his eight preliminary games. Echoing Dylan's appearance, Mellor was pipped to the series title, finishing as runner up. Three former contestants have returned to Countdown as part of the production team: Michael Wylie, (as producer, and occasional lexicographer in Dictionary Corner) and (the current series producer).In 1998, sixteen celebrities were invited to play Celebrity Countdown, a series of eight games broadcast every Thursday evening over the course of eight weeks. The celebrities included Whiteley's successor Des Lynam, who beat. The highest and lowest scores were posted in the same game when TV's beat wine critic 47–9.Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman competed in another special episode on 1997. For this game, the presenter's chair was taken by, the host of fellow Channel 4 game show. Susie Dent took over Vorderman's duties, and occupied Dictionary Corner, accompanied.

The game was close-fought, and decided only by the crucial Countdown conundrum mistletoe which Vorderman solved in two seconds, after Whiteley had inadvertently buzzed after one second, because when he regularly hosted the show, he hit the button to reveal the conundrum and kept his old habit up.Contestants who have or had become notable for other reasons include magazine editor-at-large Pete Cashmore, rugby player, footballers, and, musicians and, comedian, and noted Irish.In popular culture. The letters of a round during a 1991 episode in which both contestants declared the word wankers.Countdown is often referenced and parodied in British culture.Assorted allusions The episode ' (2005) mentions a futuristic version of Countdown, in which the goal is to stop a bomb from exploding in 30 seconds. Countdown was referenced again in a later series in ' (2007), where Professor Docherty expresses a keen fondness for the show and how it 'hasn't been the same since Des took over—Both Deses'.In the 2002 film, protagonist Will Freeman is a regular viewer of Countdown.guitarist named one of his solo records Consonant Please, Carol, echoing one of the show's catchphrases.Outtakes Countdown has also generated a number of widely viewed, with the letters occasionally producing a word that was deemed unsuitable for the original broadcast. A round in which Dictionary Corner offered the word gobshite featured in TV's Finest Failures in 2001 (the actual episode aired on 10 January 2000), and in one episode from 1991, contestants Gino Corr and Lawrence Pearse both declared the word wankers. This was edited out of the programme but has since appeared on many outtakes shows.

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