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Himoff!: The Memoirs of a TV Matinee Idle

Himoff!: The Memoirs of a TV Matinee Idle

by RichardWhiteley (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

Richard Whiteley was the first person to appear on Channel 4 on Tuesday 2nd November 1982. With the words 'As the countdown to the launch of a new channel ends, a new Countdown begins'. Nobody was to know, of course, that the new face on the channel was still to be there for over 20 years, and that Countdown would be dominating the channels Top Ten ratings. Richard Whiteley was known for his jackets and his puns - opinion is divided as to which was worse. However he was regarded as a cult figure among a broad section of the population. He appeared in such shows as Hale and Pace, TFI Friday, Shooting Stars, Light Lunch, Mrs Merton, Fantasy Football, received a 'Gotcha' from Noel Edmonds and was regularly on the receiving end of Terry Wogan's gentle mockery. He appeared on McCoist and MacAuley and 'The Greatest Rory Ever Told', as himself and as Carol Vorderman. He was the hit of the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999 with his one man show...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 03 May 2001
ISBN 10: 0752843451
ISBN 13: 9780752843452
Book Overview: ?If you like Alan Partridge you'll love Richard Whiteley. Singing along with the Countdown theme and pretending to be the Countdown clock was a stroke of brilliance? Independent (for Richard Whiteley?s one-man show) ?Richard Whiteley takes us on a hilarious ramble through his career ... It's not a chronicle of achievement - more a conundrum of unlikely events, which answers many questions - like how? And why? He tells it all in a combination of the gentle humours of Bill Bryson and David Niven? Metro Countdown consistently in the top ten Channel Four programmes with audience figures reaching 3.25m Richard Whiteley had a huge cult following; for hardback publication interviews appeared in magazines as diverse as Loaded and Woman?s Own, and the book reprinted within a month of publication His one-man Edinburgh show was an instant sell out hit

Author Bio
Born and bred in Yorkshire, Richard Whiteley was obsessed with TV from the moment he saw a BBC outside broadcast van. Richard was the first person to appear on Channel 4 on Tuesday 2nd November 1982, with the words As the countdown to the launch of a new channel ends, a new Countdown begins . No one could have predicted that Countdown would dominate the channel's top ten ratings for over 20 years. Richard made a record 10,000 or more appearances on British television. He died in 2005.