Countdown Reviews

Famous for being the first ever TV show ever aired on Channel 4 Countdown was intended to herald the arrival of a new more serious yet attainable terrestrial television channel back in the long distant days where we had a choice of only three TV channels (Channel 4 making this four) and late night viewing was restricted to the National Anthem, the ...  Read the complete review

Countdown has the great honour of not only being the first show ever aired on Channel 4 on the 2nd November 1982 but also being one of the longest running game shows in the world with an impressive 4,000+ episodes shown to date. The simplistic format and fun interludes between rounds have allowed Countdown to stand the test of time and become one ...  Read the complete review

I have always been a fan of Countdown, but now of late I can not watch it! Countdown is mostly a word and a little of a number game, whereby contestants have to find words out of a certain number of given letters. The number game consists of making up the number with the given numbers. At the end of the show is always the conundrum, ...  Read the complete review

Since ive lost my job, ive got into a bit of a daytime tv rut where i start watching Jeremy Kyle first thing in the morning and before i know it, im watching Deal or No Deal and its nearly dinner time! Countdown is currently on tv now and i have found myself sitting watching it for the past half an hour. If you have never heard of ...  Read the complete review

Countdown comes on at 3.30 in the afternoon on Mondays to Fridays on Channel 4, It is the only programme that has been on since the channel started back in 1982 and there have been over 50 series. The show was derived from the French version of the game called Des chiffres et des lettres. This french version has been running since ...  Read the complete review

What do we have this time then, Coutndown, a game show? Yes, a british one too, though actually based on Des chiffres et des lettres, the french counterpart which started some 30 years earlier in 1965. Our version has been going since 1982. Oh, ok... so who's hosting it? Well nowadays it's Jeff Stelling with ...  Read the complete review

Countdown has never been the same since Richard Whiteley died back in 2005. At the time I was really gutted (such a bad description) because he was the right presenter for the job. Surely nobody could match up to his standards. The first episode was aired way back in 1982. I think that makes it 27 years since it began. Not bad for a ...  Read the complete review

Countdown Countdown is a game show made by ITV studios and shown a channel. The first episode of countdown was in November 1982 and over 4000 episodes have been soon since. This makes countdown one of the longest running game shows in the world Originally countdown presented by Richard whitely who sadly died in 2005 he has ...  Read the complete review

Much loved (or hated) long running Channel 4 program, originally hosted by the kindly Richard Whitely and the marmitey Carol Vorderman. I am sure there was another female presenter at first, but her name escapes me. Des Lynam and Des O Connor have also had the Anchor. Currently it is presented by the solid Jeff Stelling and the 'sweet' Rachel ...  Read the complete review

countdown is one of the greatest shows and probably the only show on channel 4 that has stood the test of time. Originally hosted by the late Richard Whitley and Carol Voderman the game is a show of letters and numbers. The original format was so popular the show was extended with additional rounds where contestants are asked to pit their wits of ...  Read the complete review

"Countdown" is one of those programmes you either love or hate - I'm a big fan now suffering withdrawal symptoms. Richard Whitely hosts, in a mix of seriousness and attempting to be funny. Or maybe the fun is that he attempts to be funny. Either way, he often finds himself losing to Carole Vorderman's wry wit. The concept is so ...  Read the complete review

Count down is a channel four Tv game show which has been running for almost 30 years now. It shot Carol Vordaman into the limelight as she was on it since the start, she was the woman who put the letters up, the number up and always helped in working out the different numbers when no one else could. The presenters have had to be replaced over ...  Read the complete review

Countdown is an intellectual game show currently shown on channel four. It is very successful and one of the longest running shows of its kind, knocking up sixty series in the twenty-seven years it has been running. Essentially, it is a game of letters and numbers. Two contestants go head to head in one episode and over various rounds the player ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: Word and number nerds from around the country pit their wits against the clock and each-other in a bid to make the biggest word possible from a jumble of random letters, and a specific number from a jumble of numbers. IS IT ANY GOOD: In my recent reviews of quiz shows, it just had to come back to Countdown, ...  Read the complete review

Countdown is a game show where contestants are faced with 3 challenges. 1) "Vowel please Carol": The contestants take it in turns to pick a certain amount of letters, choosing whether to pick a vowel or contestant at a time. Once the letters have been drawn, the two contestants have to beat the clock to see who can make the ...  Read the complete review

Countdow must be one of the most successful afternoon programmes for channel four it certainly must be one of the longest running and it has done well to survive after the loss of Richard Whitely whose nickname of twice Knightly was more to do with his bedroom antics rather than the number of mistakes he made per episode because there tended to be ...  Read the complete review

Countdown is the long running gameshow which features on channel 4. Two contestants, a lot of letters and a numberboard.. and yet it all ties together in a very interesting show. ~~ Introduction / Rules ~~ Countdown is the gameshow in which two contestants compete in a battle of wit across numerous rounds in order to have the ...  Read the complete review

If you've never seen Countdown then why the heavens not?! It's possibly the best quiz show style program ever to grace our screens. The lovely Carol Vorderman is a role model for women everywhere with her mixture of brains and beauty (instead of just the beauty for a change) and has been on the show since it first began over twenty five years ...  Read the complete review

Countdown is a tour de force of British gameshows. It airs on Channel 4, and has done since its creation in 1982, when presenters Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman first catapulted onto our screens. Whiteley was the main presenter with Vorderman the co-host helping with the numbers and letters. The game consists of a series of word ...  Read the complete review

Countdown has now had thousands of programmes as it is broadcast every weekday evening all year round. So what is the attraction that leads many people to build their late afternoon around an essential viewing of Countdown? Countdown has retained the same basic format through the years and this is one of its main strengths. The ...  Read the complete review