A few streamers here in the U.S. (believe Roku and Xumo) carry a 24-hour channel featuring episodes of the BBC quiz "Impossible," which Rick Edwards has hosted the last couple of years. He's a good host with a strong sense of humor.
On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 1:08:04 PM UTC-4 Adam Bowie wrote: > The British presenter of this show is a very likable chap called Rick > Edwards, who also happens to co-present the breakfast show on BBC Five Live > (news and sport station). He's mostly known as a British TV presenter > having found success on E4 (sort of like MTV in the old days). > > He happened to be this week's guest The Two Shot Podcast. This is an > interview show with the British actor Craig Parkinson and tends to feature > long-form interviews with actors about how they got their starts in the > business. > > Edwards isn't an actor but he is very funny, and he tells an enormously > indiscrete story about working on The Courtship and the problems he has > trying to inject humour into it (the network wasn't keen, but that's > Edwards' thing). It must have been recorded before NBC whisked it > off-network, although Edwards is smart enough to have perhaps seen the > writing on the wall. However, he noted he still had more voiceover work to > do. > > Anyway, worth a listen of that sort of thing floats your boat. > > https://play.acast.com/s/twoshotpod > > (I met Craig Parkinson at the British Podcast Awards a couple of years ago > when his show had just won a couple. I congratulated him and he was very > charming about it.) > > > Adam > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2022, 15:18 Mark Jeffries, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> NBC's Regency-themed dating show has been sent off to sister cable >> channel USA Network after two episodes--USA will air it out of prime time >> at 11 p.m. ET on Wednesdays after their "Temptation Island" reboot, with >> the show streaming on Peacock thereafter: >> >> >> https://deadline.com/2022/03/the-courtship-dating-series-pulled-from-nbc-moved-usa-network-1234980349/ >> >> The for-all-practical-purposes replacement is the second season of Jane >> Lynch's "Weakest Link" reboot, which premiered last week and will air in >> "The Courtship"'s time slot this Sunday, before an Adele special that aired >> in the UK on ITV in November at the same time her CBS special with the >> Oprah interview aired here. On Mar. 27, "Link" will be back at its 9 p.m. >> slot after a repeat of the Peacock Net's Eurovision manque "The American >> Song Contest." >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6dcabd52-0802-46df-a2c1-336a271dbc6an%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6dcabd52-0802-46df-a2c1-336a271dbc6an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/e127b286-bbd1-4928-86b8-d939402b0b08n%40googlegroups.com.
