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In case anyone is interested there is an article about the new look Countdown in today's (Saturday 3rd Jan) colour magazine. And it appears to be a reasonably accurate report of a day's recording of Countdown.

I've seen the article and should add that it contains a small spoiler for CoC. It hints at the result of one of the first round matches and gives away a 9-letter word found by one of the contestants.

tonywarren wrote:In case anyone is interested there is an article about the new look Countdown in today's (Saturday 3rd Jan) colour magazine. And it appears to be a reasonably accurate report of a day's recording of Countdown.

It's available on The Guardian's website (in the Weekend section) too. But the print version does have a nice pic of Rachel by the great Eamonn McCabe.

The article is here. It makes interesting reading, especially finally getting to hear Damian's take on the whole Carol debacle. And I think Kai should change his avatar to a picture of Bart Simpson.

I think the Guardian misprinted this bit - "David O'Donnell, a quietly spoken man from Northern Ireland" - were they talking to the same David O'Donnell I met in the green room?!

Charlie Reams, another programmer, doing a PhD at Oxford

Sigh...

Charlie Reams wrote:

Charlie Reams, another programmer, doing a PhD at Oxford

Sigh...

I thought you'd seen sense and come over to 'the dark side'.

But Hattenstone's famously a Man City fan. He's gonna get things wrong...

Malcolm James wrote:I've seen the article and should add that it contains a small spoiler for CoC.

Indeed. It says that some people were knocked out in the first round.

Just can't wait for the CoC and to go on the show myself

Three words leap out from that article...

"Countdown chocolate set"

What? How? Why? Huh?

David, you should've Ebayed the word lists - I'd actually have payed money for them

And in the evenings they gather back at the hotel for fun and games.

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Jimmy wrote:David, you should've Ebayed the word lists - I'd actually have payed money for them

They will be placed in the public domain in due course (Once Carol has typed them up...)

Naomi Laddiman wrote:I think the Guardian misprinted this bit - "David O'Donnell, a quietly spoken man from Northern Ireland" - were they talking to the same David O'Donnell I met in the green room?!

perhaps the "sometime quietly spoken man liable to be found punching the air with his hand and his lip with his tooth whilst crying "f***sorryKai" " would have not read as well...

tonywarren wrote:

Jimmy wrote:David, you should've Ebayed the word lists - I'd actually have payed money for them

They will be placed in the public domain in due course (Once Carol has typed them up...)

Great, thanks.

Naomi Laddiman wrote:I think the Guardian misprinted this bit - "David O'Donnell, a quietly spoken man from Northern Ireland" - were they talking to the same David O'Donnell I met in the green room?!

My family found this quite amusing too.

tonywarren wrote: They will be placed in the public domain in due course (Once Carol has typed them up...)

I hadn't realised Carol was now so totally out of a job!

Rosemary Roberts wrote:

tonywarren wrote: They will be placed in the public domain in due course (Once Carol has typed them up...)

I hadn't realised Carol was now so totally out of a job!

Ha great article. Especially the bits about all the contestants.