plymothian
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Did anyone see Room 101 on Friday, reference Nick Hewer's dislike for Train Managers? They went into Room 101 for over the top announcements. Still on iPlayer.
This will be the same Nick Hewer who has done much to make "Countdown" drop down the viewing ratings by his "wooden" performance.
Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?This will be the same Nick Hewer who has done much to make "Countdown" drop down the viewing ratings by his "wooden" performance.
I think Nick Hewer is extremely witty, with a very dry sense of humour. I didn't see his appearance on Room 101, but I've a feeling I'd have been in complete agreement with him.Countdown host Nick Hewer joined the much loved game show one month ago today and viewing figures have seen a boost since he's taken the helm.
So far ratings are up 22% on the show's average audience in 2011 and 4oD views on Channel4.com are up 50% on December's figures.
A Channel 4 spokesperson said "Nick is a class act and we're delighted that the viewers have taken to him"
Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?
According to the Channel 4 website, the audience for the current series is up by 22% compared with the average audience throughout 2011, and the audience is also more upmarket.
I think Nick Hewer is extremely witty, with a very dry sense of humour. I didn't see his appearance on Room 101, but I've a feeling I'd have been in complete agreement with him.
True, but that's not the issue. I was specifically questioning Paul Sidorczuk's claim that Countdown's ratings have fallen since Nick Hewer took over. Official figures show that they haven't.It's too soon to tell any long term trends IMO, I'd want until at least six months to be sure
Never heard of Nick Hewer rhymes with sewer
a) Nick Hewer knocks the socks off Lynam and Stelling, who were both even more wooden, and gave the impression that words were a foreign language to them
b) Train Managers often do overuse announcements (10 minutes of announcements on one train before departure at Kings Cross a year or so back!) but then do not give relevant and timely information when useful (eg, we are arriving ten minutes late into Leeds on platform 8, so if you run like Bolt you might catch the Ilkley train on 3b)
Send them to Room 101 for training!
I think Nick Hewer is extremely witty, with a very dry sense of humour. I didn't see his appearance on Room 101, but I've a feeling I'd have been in complete agreement with him.
Could we put frank skinner in room 101?
Yet he'd also condemn them to room 101 for not making enough announcements :roll:
There are a number of people you'll never please as they're only interesting in moaning to the greatest possible audience. Not even Nelson Mandela would please them
On Virgin between Birmingham Euston Southbound on the one that stops at Rugby it is rare that the train manager is off the pa the entire way from New Street to Rugby as by the time he has finished his first announcement we have reached International and then Coventry and then Rugby. Finally on leaving Rugby we get some peace...unless we are on a late night one that also stops at Milton Keynes. The initial announcement is fine but the ticket validity announcement one is ridiculously long and also wrong as they always say tickets routed High Wycombe are not valid on this service when actually they are perfectly valid as far as Coventry.
But the thread contains enough information for me to build a reasonable picture of what he was unhappy about.You are perfectly entitled to your own view of the matter, as you can even say how much you would have been "in complete agreement with him", even though you admit to not seeing the Room 101 programme.
That is an opinion that you are all entitled to, of course. (It's quite possible that you all dislike him more for his politics than for his presenting skills). But you made a rather more definite statement regarding the programme's ratings:I would say that the circle of my ex-business acquaintances from our Consultancy and those of our immediate neighbourhood in a rather "select" part of Cheshire East are unanimous in feeling that Nick Hewer is the wrong type of person to present this programme.
which is factually incorrect. Far from "dropping down the ratings", the audience is up by 22% and the audience share by 17%.This will be the same Nick Hewer who has done much to make "Countdown" drop down the viewing ratings by his "wooden" performance.
Far from "dropping down the ratings", the audience is up by 22% and the audience share by 17%.
tbtc:998890 said:However the new version of the show just has people taking lazy pot-shots at everyday gripes, turning it into a panel show version of Grumpy Old Men.
Much as I can enjoy Frank Skinner, I'd rather see the show encourage people to come out and admit to some strange phobia/ irrational dislike/ petty grudge (e.g. celebrities hating the colour indigo/ vinegar/ the smell of freshly cut grass) instead of coming up with a bland dislike (such as "I don't like traffic wardens").
it seems rather pointless to get annoyed about something in a show which actively seeks out what annoys people. It's not like this was an unprovoked rant in an interview - he had to pick SOMEthing for room 101!
As far as I can establish, no-one that we know have ever been contacted to be quizzed on what we are watching.....or is there some "1984-style" monitoring of televisiory viewing, similar to that used by the TV Licensing agency to track down people who watch television without the requisite licence.