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coppernorks

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1,919 posts

69 months

Wednesday 24th March 2021
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New host Clive Myrie.

Why a humour-free autocue reader is required as a presenter I've no idea.

I thought it might be the time to push this long tusked mammoth into the tar-pit of doom,
the pisspoor ratings hardly deserve a BBC 1 slot any more.

Tabs

1,077 posts

295 months

Wednesday 24th March 2021
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You obviously didn't see Clive on BBC Breakfast on Monday morning. Very bubbly and funny. Sounds like he likes to party and have a few drinks...

Bengt Axel

138 posts

172 months

Wednesday 24th March 2021
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Is it just me whose getting annoyed by the unnecessarily long questions, with far too much detail? They need vetting for verbal diarrhoea.

Give Myrie a chance, anything has to be an improvement on that sociopath Humphrys!

WRumbled

392 posts

250 months

Wednesday 24th March 2021
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Bengt Axel said:
Is it just me whose getting annoyed by the unnecessarily long questions, with far too much detail? They need vetting for verbal diarrhoea.

Give Myrie a chance, anything has to be an improvement on that sociopath Humphrys!
Whilst that annoys me, I appreciate it's done to try and even up the length of questions for each contestant, so they get an equal number asked and opportunities to answer. What bothers me more is the odd occasion where Humphries seems to take longer with one set of questions, and therefore asks fewer to the contestant. Hardly fair.

Zad

12,946 posts

259 months

Wednesday 24th March 2021
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The long-winded questions aren't particularly well written either. Added to that the tedious contestant interview, and it became unwatchable for me some time ago.

Mastermind said:
In 1983, prior to his nomination as Nobel Laureate and subsequent elevation to the Icelandic peerage, the author Paddy O'Irishbloke, seventh child of the celebrated O'Irishbloke family of County Irrelevant-cliché, commented in the back cover of his new novel "Around the houses, up the road, and down again, a tale of my travels around the housing estates of my childhood, in seven parts" that he had previously expressed a distaste for small animals, in particular small Airedale terriers named Rover. What was the author's middle name <trap pause> not his second given name, the third one?"


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