Ben Shephard at one point did GMB four or five days a week, Goals on Sundays, Ninja Warrior UK and Tipping Point and he mentioned in an interview it took a huge toll on him that he decided to cut back on GMB.
I guess because presenters are freelance, they have to take as much work as they can.
Ben Shephard at one point did GMB four or five days a week, Goals on Sundays, Ninja Warrior UK and Tipping Point and he mentioned in an interview it took a huge toll on him that he decided to cut back on GMB.
I guess because presenters are freelance, they have to take as much work as they can.
You can really tell in some episodes of Tipping Point that he's very tired.
Ben Shephard at one point did GMB four or five days a week, Goals on Sundays, Ninja Warrior UK and Tipping Point and he mentioned in an interview it took a huge toll on him that he decided to cut back on GMB.
I guess because presenters are freelance, they have to take as much work as they can.
You can really tell in some episodes of Tipping Point that he's very tired.
Or just bored. Tedious enough to watch so hosting and feining excitement must be tiring.
And I’m guessing on the days he was recording Countdown he wouldn’t have been hosting Calendar
In the One Day In The Life Of Television book, Richard says he recorded seven episodes of Countdown ("we could have done more, but we ran out of contestants") and then presented that day's Calendar.
There is a phenomenon that I think is unique to TV where it seems someone is appearing on every programme, every channel, you can't get rid of them - then one day you're watching an old panel show repeat and you think "what happened to so and so? They used to be on all the time!", such is the ephemeral nature of the medium.
Alexander Armstrong used to appear all over the place on various shows for all networks before Pointless came along.
Likewise back in the day Neil Buchanan was effectively on three or four different shows at one point, including Art Attack, Motormouth and probably some other stuff too. Same with Mark Speight, who was all over CITV and CBBC with various shows and projects.
