Countdown

[elliemay1]

Do you think Countdown has reached its sell-by date?? If they insist on having Jo Brand as a guest then I, for one, will stop watching. The woman is embarrassing.

[Caribeing]

I record it and then whizz through the bits I don't like, adverts, the guest if they are boring and some of Nicks unnecessary banter, he can be quite rude sometimes to the contestants, much preferred Jeff Stelling. I think it is time for a new host someone who has a good rapport with everyone. Enjoyed Janet Street Porter last week she was witty and intelligent. favourite guest is Paul Zenon. Rachel and Susie are lovely girls, Rachel has a great personality as well as looks.

[Prudie]

It's the puzzles that interest me, don't really care who is doing the filling-in.

[Baldric]

"Tick Tock Time"

UGGHHHHh!!!!!!!!

[elliemay1]

But, Prudie, do you not think that they should try to make it a programme that can be watched in its entirety, rather than having to fast-forward quite a chunk of it??

[grumpy01]

Countdown was a great programme when Richard Whiteley presented it.Now it is c??p,it should have been dropped when Richard died.Also,why has Fifteen to one never come back now we have What you should know with the utterly appaling Sandi Toksvig

[cupid04]

I still like countdown. I usually record it then I can fast-forward Jo Brand and any other boring guests they deem to have on.

[elliemay1]

Jo Brand's "entertainment" consists of making up silly nonsense non- words. Surely anyone could do that.

[Canary42]

In Jo's early performances she introduced some quite amusing made-up words and it became her trademark, but she lacks the original imagination to continue the theme successfully, so spouts inanities.

[elliemay1]

At the risk of repeating myself, surely they could do something with the programme so that viewers don't have to record it and fast forward chunks of it. In its early days that wasn't necessary.

[vulcan42]

I rarely watch it but two friends are avid viewers and would never miss it. However even they are now saying it's boring so it seems it's due for revamping, or dare I say it, cancellation.

[elliemay1]

It would be a shame to cancel it as it can be educational.

[Canary42]

Since when has "being educational" won anything in the ratings war, which is what counts with the commercial TV companies. Sadly the modern BBC are now also mimicking this trend, thanks to the TV licence moaners.

[Cloverjo]

It would be a great shame if it were cancelled. I still enjoy it, but don't like every guest. I found it mildly amusing when J S-P said last week that she was "highly intelligent, and I'm not boasting", when there were two other highly intelligent women in the studio with her, who don't feel the need to tell people, not to mention Nick and the two contestants.

I think part of the problem is the extended length, so there is more guff to fill the space.