Xumo for sure.  I watch it on on demand in order and am now on the
next-to-last season.  He is good and has gotten better over the course of
the run, especially since he was more borderline Anne Robinson-ish when the
show started.

Mark Jeffries
[email protected]


On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 12:48 PM James Dinan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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."
>>>
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