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Channel 4’s Countdown announces Anne Robinson as host

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The announcement came via a Countdown conundrum, revealed live on Steph’s Packed Lunch.


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The formidable former question master of The Weakest Link is the first female host of the iconic programme.

Robinson will be joining wordsmith Susie Dent and number cruncher Rachel Riley on the show and will make her on-screen debut this summer.

Celebrity line up confirmed for second series of Grayson’s Art Club

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Artist Grayson Perry and his wife Philippa Perry will once again encourage the public to get crafty during lockdown and produce some creative works of art to an exciting chosen theme.

Each week, Grayson and Philippa will interview artists and celebrities about their creative processes and the artwork they have created, with each episode incorporating a chosen theme. The six themes of the series will be family, nature, food, dreams, work and travel, with members of the public encouraged to submit their own artworks.

Channel 4 commissions new property competition Flipping Fast

The series will offer six aspiring property entrepreneurs the chance to start their own business.

Each of the developers will be given a £100,000 investment to kick-start their business, before competing against one another to see who can make the most profit from their property in a calendar year.

A property expert will advise all the contestants, but they will only learn of their competitors’ progress when each property listing goes live.

Meet the celebrities taking part in The Great Celebrity British Bake Off for SU2C

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Twenty celebrities from the worlds of film, music, sport and entertainment will be donning their pinnies to make their best baked creations across five special episodes.

Matt Lucas will be on hand to support the celebs through the various challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.

The celebrities rolling up their sleeves and doing their bit to raise awareness for Stand Up To Cancer are:

Nominations for the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2021 announced

After an unparalleled and challenging year, the BBC leads the way with 23 nominations across the 19 categories including ‘News Channel of the Year’, and ‘Breaking News’ for the coverage of Boris Johnson being rushed to hospital with Covid-19. ITV and Sky News follow garnering 10 nominations each, both including ‘Scoop of the Year’ and ‘Television Journalist of the Year’, for which the nominees are Alex Crawford for Sky News, Clive Myrie for BBC News, and Robert Moore for ITV News.

David Mitchell, Robert Webb and writer Simon Blackwell discuss series two of Back

Robert Webb and David Mitchell

Mitchell is Stephen, a man who has failed as a husband, a lawyer and at running his late father’s pub. Worse, he’s been usurped in his family’s affections by the charismatic Andrew (Webb), supposedly a former foster child of Stephen’s parents.

“I like to pay the comic mattress on which people jump up and down – there’s a lot of comedy and fun acting to be had from the character that things are happening to,” said Mitchell.

He described Stephen as “disappointed and self-loathing and endlessly self-doubting, also intelligent and little bit angry.”