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(July 2008)

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TVViewer
Just watched Thursday's Countdown.....

Why is it 2 former champions and the supposedly brilliant Oxford graduate Rachel cannot answer the first simple maths problem:

75, 25, 7, 10, 8, 2 with a target of 327.

Both contestants are one away and she has no clue! It's dead easy.... 250 x 10 = 250
250 + 75 = 325
325 + 2 = 327

Come back Carol....all is forgiven! Surprised
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TVViewer
Reboot posted:
Contestant just picked five vowels (letters were CRRTAAEEI - cards can't have been shuffled properly). I thought they weren't allowed to do that?


This has been happening a lot all week! Something very strange going on! Confused
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TVViewer
1TV posted:
InventThamesValley2 posted:
Hate it already. Cheap plastic backboard, same desks only with a new 'fake marble' worktop that don't even match the 'colour scheme' but worst of all they still got those nasty LCD screens which in that photograph look worse than ever.


Desk doesn't look like fake or real marble to me. The colour surely is part of the colour scheme??!! - suppose you liked the pink candy stripes and stained carpet Blackpool B and B look?? This set looks much more professional, slick and expensive than any before. Channel 4 have obviously spent money on the relaunch.


If you take the money they spent on the new set....and the money they're paying Rachel then I am sure they could have afforded to pay Carol more than the 90% pay cut and had her stay on? Thank goodness for Suzie Dent still being on to leave at least a bit of familiarity.
BR
Brekkie
TVViewer posted:
1TV posted:
InventThamesValley2 posted:
Hate it already. Cheap plastic backboard, same desks only with a new 'fake marble' worktop that don't even match the 'colour scheme' but worst of all they still got those nasty LCD screens which in that photograph look worse than ever.


Desk doesn't look like fake or real marble to me. The colour surely is part of the colour scheme??!! - suppose you liked the pink candy stripes and stained carpet Blackpool B and B look?? This set looks much more professional, slick and expensive than any before. Channel 4 have obviously spent money on the relaunch.


If you take the money they spent on the new set....and the money they're paying Rachel then I am sure they could have afforded to pay Carol more than the 90% pay cut and had her stay on? Thank goodness for Suzie Dent still being on to leave at least a bit of familiarity.


Well if it's a choice between the new set and Carol, I'd take the new set thanks.
CY
cylon6
I never minded Carol and it's a shame she left as I think she and Jeff would have developed a great rapport. However some fans will resist the new team because they replaced Carol. Save the hate for the producers and give the new team a chance is what I say.
MA
Manxy
TVViewer posted:
Just watched Thursday's Countdown.....

Why is it 2 former champions and the supposedly brilliant Oxford graduate Rachel cannot answer the first simple maths problem:

75, 25, 7, 10, 8, 2 with a target of 327.

Both contestants are one away and she has no clue! It's dead easy.... 250 x 10 = 250
250 + 75 = 325
325 + 2 = 327

Come back Carol....all is forgiven! Surprised

Are you sure about that?
NW
nwtv2003
A couple of mentions of Countdown on Soccer Saturday, one of the reporters telling Jeff he's made his afternoons more enjoyable and then Chris Kamara saying that it wasn't Jeff, it was the Blonde bird. Very Happy
SA
salfordjohn
Manxy posted:
TVViewer posted:
Just watched Thursday's Countdown.....

Why is it 2 former champions and the supposedly brilliant Oxford graduate Rachel cannot answer the first simple maths problem:

75, 25, 7, 10, 8, 2 with a target of 327.

Both contestants are one away and she has no clue! It's dead easy.... 250 x 10 = 250
250 + 75 = 325
325 + 2 = 327

Come back Carol....all is forgiven! Surprised

Are you sure about that?


It is true! I just watched it again on 4OnDemand - it's the first numbers game about 10 minutes in so you don't have to fast forward too much. Those are the numbers and nobody got it!
TG
TG
I think it was the sum "250 x 10" he was questioning...
BR
Brekkie
salfordjohn posted:
Manxy posted:
TVViewer posted:
Just watched Thursday's Countdown.....

Why is it 2 former champions and the supposedly brilliant Oxford graduate Rachel cannot answer the first simple maths problem:

75, 25, 7, 10, 8, 2 with a target of 327.

Both contestants are one away and she has no clue! It's dead easy.... 250 x 10 = 250
250 + 75 = 325
325 + 2 = 327

Come back Carol....all is forgiven! Surprised

Are you sure about that?


It is true! I just watched it again on 4OnDemand - it's the first numbers game about 10 minutes in so you don't have to fast forward too much. Those are the numbers and nobody got it!


How strange, though to be fair she got a bloody complicated one the day before.

The C4 Countdown site is a bit **** now too - the only content other than clips is a game, which is hosted on ITV.com and still features Des Lynam.
RE
Reboot
Jenny posted:
Reboot posted:
Contestant just picked five vowels (letters were CRRTAAEEI - cards can't have been shuffled properly). I thought they weren't allowed to do that?


Five is the maximum they're allowed.

Was it changed back at some point? I had thought they were meant to pick more consonants than vowels these days.

TVViewer posted:
If you take the money they spent on the new set....and the money they're paying Rachel then I am sure they could have afforded to pay Carol more than the 90% pay cut and had her stay on? Thank goodness for Suzie Dent still being on to leave at least a bit of familiarity.

Well, Carol was getting paid somewhere in the £900k-£1m region. That wasn't sustainable, especially on Countdown's current ~1m viewers (she negotiated that much when the show was later and getting several times that) - I doubt they spent anything like £800k on the new set.

Rachel's apparently getting paid ~£100k a year. Which is still pretty good, even before you consider that they film less than half the year.
JO
Johnr
TVViewer posted:
Just watched Thursday's Countdown.....

Why is it 2 former champions and the supposedly brilliant Oxford graduate Rachel cannot answer the first simple maths problem:

75, 25, 7, 10, 8, 2 with a target of 327.

Both contestants are one away and she has no clue! It's dead easy.... 250 x 10 = 250
250 + 75 = 325
325 + 2 = 327

Come back Carol....all is forgiven! Surprised


You don't seem to have any clue either, I think you'll find 250 x 10 is actually 2500

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