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Peter Dickson (announcer)
Peter Dickson is a Northern Irish voice-over artist. He is best known as the brand voice of '' The X Factor'' and '' Britain’s Got Talent'' and also as the voice of television channel E4. His other work includes '' Ireland's Got Talent'', '' The Price Is Right'', '' Family Fortunes'' and '' All Star Mr & Mrs''. Career Dickson was educated at the Belfast Royal Academy in his home city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He later graduated with a BA Hons degree in psychology from Queens University. While there he was a member of the University Air Squadron, where he flew the Bulldog. He was a reporter and journalist at the BBC, later moving to the presentation department at Radio Ulster. From there he moved on to BBC Radio 2 as a newsreader and announcer, also presenting overnight shows and his own comedy-based Friday show ''Peter Dickson's Nightcap''. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Dickson worked alongside Steve Wright on his Radio 1 afternoon and morning shows. He creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Price Is Right (UK Game Show)
''The Price is Right'' is a British game show based on the US version of the same name. It originally aired on ITV from 24 March 1984 to 8 April 1988 and was hosted by Leslie Crowther. The show later briefly moved to Sky One for one series as ''The New Price is Right'' from 4 September 1989 to 31 August 1990 with Bob Warman as the host. The show returned to ITV in 1995 hosted by Bruce Forsyth. It returned to ITV, as ''Bruce's Price is Right'', from 4 September 1995 to 16 December 2001 with Bruce Forsyth hosting for seven series, and again on the same channel from 8 May 2006 until 12 January 2007, this time hosted by Joe Pasquale. Two one-off specials aired as part of ITV's ''Gameshow Marathon'' in September 2005 and April 2007. On 30 December 2017, it was revived for a one-off pilot hosted by Alan Carr on Channel 4. In June 2019, it was announced that ''The Price Is Right'' had been chosen as one of the country's five all-time favourite game shows to be "supersized and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |