We have Richard Harris at half-octochampdom, so he could be an octochamp by Thursday. But, will he stay till the end
Despite this only being the 5th week of Series 63, we're already at our 5th DC newbie of the series, although it was helped by the fact we had 2 last week.
In DC this week, is the swimmer turned Gladiator turned "faecal matter that won't flush" (I'm sure we didn't need reminding of what Jason Gardiner said of her on Dancing On Ice, but too late now), Sharron Davies.
Don't forget also that after this week, the next few weeks are Countdown restricted, in terms of new episodes anyway.
Next week, there's just the special between Lesley "The Countdown Sweetheart" Hines and Micheal Harris.
The week after is the special between Dinos and Kai, along with 4 repeats during the rest of the week (don't know which ones, but 2 have Paul Zenon in DC, and 1 each have John Parrott and Rory McGrath in DC.)
Ryan will be around with the recap later.
After all that, I think I need a rest now.
Oh, I'm still at work, damn. 
