Channel 4’s Daytime favourite, Countdown, is changing with the times. Over thirty years since the launch of the long running series, Countdown is replacing the traditional print version of the Oxford ...
Its presence in Dictionary Corner has become as quintessential a part of Countdown as the giant clock and conundrums. But the humble dictionary is to be scrapped in a sweeping modernisation of the ...
Countdown, an unlikely holdout against the creeping march of digitalisation, has finally succumbed to progress after producers agreed to bin their ragged copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, used to ...
TV quiz Countdown is to ditch its dictionary after 32 years this month – and replace it with an online version. Rachel Riley revealed that the hit gameshow - the first programme to air on Channel 4 ...
She is the queen of Dictionary Corner, but after more than two decades on words and numbers quiz Countdown it seems Susie Dent still has a problem with maths. The Oxford-educated lexicographer, who ...
Countdown viewers will have noticed Susie Dent did not feature in Monday’s episode after a last-minute change to the line-up. According to the TV guide, Dent was supposed to appear alongside Rachel ...