Countdown
Channel 4
★★★☆☆
Anne Robinson had joked that she didn’t have time to get another facelift before her debut on Countdown, but Channel 4 found a different way to rewind the years. She was welcomed to her first show with a clip from 1987 when, fresh-faced at 42, she had appeared on Countdown during the Richard Whiteley years with a flicked hairdo that she said was “Bay City Rollers”, but to me looked more “Lady Di”.
In interviews beforehand she had hinted that she would tone down the snark, not reprising the savage put-downs of The Weakest Link that made viewers’ bottoms clench. Such as when she asked a beauty therapist why she hadn’t got round to working on herself. But old habits
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