Spoilers for Friday 3rd December 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 114)

[Thomas Carey]

[Philip A]

Cancelled.

[samir pilica]

Cancelled.

Y?

[Thomas Carey]

Cancelled.

Y?

they found out stu was using a solver under his desk

(play out issues, whatever that means)

[Philip A]

It must be due to technical problems rather than what happened in the programme. Craig Charles’s game show Moneybags has also been pulled.

[Gavin Chipper]

I think a fire alarm went off a couple of months or so ago. Probably explains it.

[Philip A]

A tweet from Channel 4:

We’ve experienced temporary technical issues related to the new operating process that was put in place after the outage. We are working to rectify it as quickly as possible but can confirm that the peak schedule is unaffected.

[John Garcia]

It must be due to technical problems rather than what happened in the programme. Craig Charles’s game show Moneybags has also been pulled.

Craig Charles is ironically next weeks DC guest. What are the chances???

[Philip A]

It must be due to technical problems rather than what happened in the programme. Craig Charles’s game show Moneybags has also been pulled.

Craig Charles is ironically next weeks DC guest. What are the chances???

He was probably picked for dictionary corner because of his new game show. Speaking of Moneybags, they have just tweeted to say that Channel 4 have had an outage after a new operating system which is being installed.

[Gavin Chipper]

What was on instead? Anything? Nothing?

[Philip A]

What was on instead? Anything? Nothing?

A repeat of Find It, Fix It, Flog It.

[Philip A]

Countdown’s official Twitted account has tweeted:

OFFICIAL CHANNEL 4 STATEMENT:

“We’ve experienced temporary technical issues related to the new operating process that was put in place after a recent outage. This meant several shows were affected today. We’re sorry and are working to rectify it as quickly as possible.”

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

No-one knows the craic with this yet?
Do they push everything back by one day, or perhaps keep the schedule as is & make today's episode available to view on More 4 instead?

[Philip A]

No-one knows the craic with this yet?
Do they push everything back by one day, or perhaps keep the schedule as is & make today's episode available to view on More 4 instead?

It’s not set in stone and there’s no rigorous structure so we just have no idea. It’s just impossible to answer these questions TBH.

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Ok, I'll take that as a "that news hasn't been released yet".
Hopefully they will set something in stone sooner rather than later.

[Rhys Benjamin]

What's the situation with C4's 5am repeats of Countdown? Just wondering if we may get tihs game premiering there?

[Philip A]

The 5am airing of Countdown is repeats of episodes from a few weeks ago.

[Dan Byrom]

No-one knows the craic with this yet?
Do they push everything back by one day, or perhaps keep the schedule as is & make today's episode available to view on More 4 instead?

I'd be very surprised if everything got pushed back a day. The amount of "on this day"s and "see you next week"s it would break seems too high

[Fiona T]

I'd be very surprised if everything got pushed back a day. The amount of "on this day"s and "see you next week"s it would break seems too high

Mebbe - but possibly only for 2 weeks - if they show the final on Christmas eve instead of the 23rd, it would all be sorted by New Year. Last time one was pulled at the last minute it never got aired (yet) - I do hope we see this one - either Stu becoming an octochamp, or a challenger unseating him would be good to see - and Stu seems to have been a popular contestant in the twittersphere - who doesn't like a hairy Scotsman with a winning smile a parrot?

But Monday's episode will 'spoil' the result anyway - either we'll have two new players, in which case we deduce Stu won, or a champion with 1 win behind them.

[John Garcia]

Fridays edition is apparently available on Virgin Catchup. Not on all-4 yet though.

[Adam Dexter]

I watched it this morning on Virgin Catch-Up. Thanks John

[Rhys Benjamin]

Fridays edition is apparently available on Virgin Catchup. Not on all-4 yet though.

*panics in recap*

[Gavin Chipper]

I watched it this morning on Virgin Catch-Up. Thanks John

It's a poor show from them yet again that they can't get stuff on their own catch-up service but it can appear on third party sites. I just had a look and the most recent episode on All 4 is Wednesday 1st December. So I can't watch today's episode either. (Or last Thursday's if I hadn't already seen it.)

[Rhys Benjamin]

Thursday's was on All4, or at least on my iPad it was.

[Gavin Chipper]

Thursday's was on All4, or at least on my iPad it was.

Someone probably burnt some toast afterwards.

[Rhys Benjamin]

This is what I see on my iPad, so... meh.

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[Gavin Chipper]

Weird, because it's not on Android or PC. Not weird, because it's Channel 4 and their catch-up service is all over the place.

[Philip A]

This delayed episode will be shown on 8 December at the very early time slot of 6:10 am. The Twitter account @4Viewers contacted me.

[Ryan Lam]

This delayed episode will be shown on 8 December at the very early time slot of 6:10 am. The Twitter account @4Viewers contacted me.

Can confirm it aired this morning

[Philip A]

This delayed episode will be shown on 8 December at the very early time slot of 6:10 am. The Twitter account @4Viewers contacted me.

Can confirm it aired this morning

Thank you.

[John Garcia]

Am I the only one who hasn't seen it yet? Still not on All4. Yet I can watch every other single episode broadcast this year. It should be here (but isn't):

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/cou ... /72154-134

[Philip A]

Am I the only one who hasn't seen it yet? Still not on All4. Yet I can watch every other single episode broadcast this year. It should be here (but isn't):

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/cou ... /72154-134

I haven’t seen it yet either but because of the recals I’m not going to bother watching. There are a few missing episodes in this series and the series before as well.

[John Garcia]

I haven’t seen it yet either but because of the recals I’m not going to bother watching. There are a few missing episodes in this series and the series before as well.

It's finally up on All-4! Don't be confused by the fact that the episode is dated "Wed 8 Dec, 6.10am".

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/cou ... /72154-134

[Toby McDonald]

Finally got round to watching this, well done Stu!

Another R3 LNAFP: (8*3+2)*5