Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Channel 4’s long-running Countdown quiz has crowned its first female champion in an astonishing 26 years. The show, which has been ...

It's 12.30pm at Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds. The Countdown production team is about to record a week's worth of shows in one day. But before they start, they are politely tucking into their ...

Fans of the long-running UK quiz show were distracted during the Countdown conundrum this week by “sperm test” – which were actually the jumbled up letters of the word “temptress”, The Sun reports.

A quiz show fanatic who cheated his way onto Countdown has revealed how he managed to secure his place on the show - although his plan backfired disastrously when he arrived on set. Surrey-based James ...

Channel 4 has issued an apology after a homophobic slur was broadcast during an episode of the long-running quiz show Countdown. The word “p***ter” was given as one of the contestant’s answers, with ...

Channel 4’s long-running Countdown quiz has crowned its first female champion in an astonishing 26 years. The show, which has been on almost every day of Channel 4’s 42-year history, has not had a ...