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Win, Lose Or Draw (UK Game Show)
''Win, Lose or Draw'' is a British television game show that aired for nine series in the ITV daytime schedule from 1990 to 1998, produced by Scottish Television. The game was based on the American television game show of the same name. Format ''Win, Lose or Draw'' was essentially based on the board game ''Pictionary''. There were two teams, each composed of two celebrities and one member of the public. Three women played against three men. The teams took turns guessing a phrase, title, or thing that one teammate was drawing on a large pad of paper with markers. There's no talking by the one who was drawing, nor inscription of letters, numbers, or symbols. However, if a team mentioned a word that was part of the answer, the player at the sketchpad could write it. By series 3, correct answer within the first 30 seconds won £50 which decreased to £30 after the first 30 seconds. If time expired, the other team took one guess for £20. In the first series, the value started at  ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, considered a sex symbol and icon of 1970s American popular culture. Reynolds first rose to prominence when he starred in television series such as '' Gunsmoke'' (1962–1965), '' Hawk'' (1966) and ''Dan August'' (1970–1971). Although Reynolds had leading roles in such films as ''Navajo Joe'' (1966) and '' 100 Rifles'' (1969), his breakthrough role was as Lewis Medlock in ''Deliverance'' (1972). Reynolds played the leading role – often a lovable rogue – in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as '' White Lightning'' (1973), '' The Longest Yard'' (1974), ''Smokey and the Bandit'' (1977) (which started a six-year box office reign), '' Semi-Tough'' (1977), ''The End'' (1978), '' Hooper'' (1978), '' Starting Over'' (1979), ''Smokey and the Bandit II'' (1980), ''The Cannonball Run'' (1981), ''Sharky's Machine'' (1981), ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' (1982), and ''Cann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Hall (television Presenter)
Ed Hall (born 16 March 1974) in Ascot, Berkshire is a British television presenter best known for being a co-presenter on BBC daytime television show ''To Buy or Not to Buy''. He began his broadcast career as a reporter for ''The Sunday Show''. He has also presented the Channel 4 paintball show '' XFire'' and acted as an interviewer for the first two series of ''Techno Games''. UKGameshows.com, retrieved 5 April 2010 Filmography Hall has one film credit, a bit part (bus driver) in the British movie short ''Tug of War'' (2006). Hall is credited with writing material for two television shows, '''' (2008, 2009) and '' |
Andrea Boardman
Andrea Vivienne Boardman (born 6 November 1967 in Enfield, Middlesex) is an English television presenter. History In 1985, Boardman represented England in the Miss International 1985 pageant, held in Japan where she reached the semi-finals. Boardman began presenting when ITV's Disney Club launched in the UK in 1988. She was given the role as female presenter after 2,000 hopefuls applied for the job. She went on to present ''Disney Adventures'' (ITV), ''Future Cooks'' (BBC1), ''Entertainment Express'' (BBC1), ''Live & Kicking'' (BBC1), ''Prize Time'' (Challenge TV), ''Entertainment Today'' (Talk TV) as well as producing/presenting her weekend breakfast show on Liberty Radio. Boardman has been a regular face on TV shows including National Lottery, You Bet, ''Comic Relief'', '' Children in Need'', ''Don't Try this at Home'' and many more. After a six-year break from TV to bring up her family, Boardman has recently appeared on ''Ready Steady Cook'' and '' Daybreak''. In October 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Sharp
Patrick Sharpin, known professionally as Pat Sharp (born 25 October 1961), is an English radio presenter, television presenter and DJ. In the UK, he is known mainly for his work on the children's ITV programme ''Fun House'', and his extensive radio career. In mainland Europe, he was better known in the 1980s as one of the Sky Channel's VJs and for presenting Coca-Cola Eurochart Top 50 and Nescafé UK Top 50. Radio work Sharp worked as a presenter at BBC Radio 1 in 1982 and 1983, mixing holiday cover for other radio presenters with a regular early Sunday morning slot and television appearances hosting BBC1's ''Top of the Pops''. He deputised for David Jensen on ''The Network Chart Show''. In the mid-1980s he became a DJ for Radio Mercury and has also worked for the British Forces Broadcasting Service. For 10 years, starting in 1987, Sharp was a DJ on Capital FM in London. followed by another 11 years at Heart, both in London and Cambridge. In the late-1980s, Sharp teamed up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Campbell
Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell, OBE (born Nicholas Lackey, 10 April 1961) is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist. He has worked in television and radio since 1981 and as a network presenter with BBC Radio since 1987. Early life Campbell was born in Portobello, Edinburgh in April 1961 and was taken for adoption at just a few days old. His adoptive mother was a psychiatric social worker and his adoptive father a publisher of maps. He was educated at the independent school the Edinburgh Academy. In July 2022, he disclosed that he witnessed and experienced sexual and violent physical abuse there, which had a "profound effect on islife". He studied history at the University of Aberdeen and graduated with a 2:1 degree. Career Radio In his 2021 memoir ‘One of the Family’ Campbell describes his lifelong obsession with radio and how he and his best friend at the time, the actor Iain Glen, would call various Radio Forth phone in shows pretending to be different characters. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail McKenna
Gail McKenna (born 30 December 1968) is an English former glamour model, former theatre and television actress, and former television presenter. She worked as a ''Page 3'' girl and glamour model from 1986 until 1990, before becoming a sports presenter for L!VE TV and Five and a presenter of children's programmes for CITV. Glamour modelling McKenna was born on 30 December 1968 in Liverpool, Lancashire. As a teenager, she attended a Catholic convent school in Liverpool. After attaining eight O-levels, she took a year off, intending to return to pursue A-Levels in classics and history. However, after achieving success as a glamour model, she decided not to return to school. On 21 May 1986, aged 17, McKenna made her Page 3 debut in the tabloid newspaper '' The Sun''. She went on to become one of the most popular glamour models of her era, with her photographs appearing regularly in tabloid newspapers and men's magazines. In 1988, she appeared in a ''Playboy'' magazine pictorial wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Copstick
Kate Copstick (born 25 February 1956 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer. She studied for a law degree at the University of Glasgow. Career As a comedy actor, Copstick appeared on children's TV shows '' No. 73'' in the 1980s, and ''ChuckleVision'' in the 1990s. She played the titular role in children's series ''Marlene Marlowe Investigates'', and performed as part of the ensemble cast of former Saturday morning BBC children's show '' On the Waterfront''. Copstick executive-produced the ''Natural Born Racers'' TV series that followed the Virgin Mobile Yamaha R6 Cup. Copstick is a commentator on human sexuality. After years writing for the ''Erotic Review'', she became its owner in 2009. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Copstick was a Perrier Comedy Award judge in 2003 and 2004 and a Malcolm Hardee Award judge in 2008–2015. She lends her voice to the announcements at Fort William railway station. Work with char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Simon (presenter)
Peter Simon is an English shopping television presenter and former children's television personality. Career Simon is perhaps most famous for presenting the ''Double Dare'' (''Going Live!'') and '' Run the Risk'' (''Live & Kicking'') segments of the popular BBC1 Saturday morning children's shows. ''Run the Risk'', presented by Simon and Shane Richie, was later to become a separate television programme in its own right. Simon also worked on the children's TV show ''The Friday Zone''. In 1997 he interviewed the Spice Girls and Boyzone. Simon made infrequent television appearances throughout the 2000s, including as celebrity client on Channel 4's '' The Salon'' (2003) and as a guest on ITV Play's '' The Mint'' (2006). In the early 2000s, Simon toured Butlins holiday parks with a live stage version of ''Run the Risk''. Simon served as a permanent auctioneer on bid tv, a shopping channel owned by Bid Shopping (Formerly Known As 'Sit Up Ltd.') from 2000 until April 2014 when the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Boyd
Timothy Leslie Boyd (born 14 December 1952), better known as Tommy Boyd, is a British radio presenter. Television From 1977 to 1980, Boyd was co-presenter of the ITV children's magazine programme ''Magpie'' replacing Douglas Rae. In 1981, he presented ''What's Happening?'', a news quiz. He also presented the Saturday TV-am show ''Wide Awake Club'' from 1986–1990, and its Sunday spin-off ''WAC Extra'', throughout the 1980s. In 1982, he joined the cast of ''Jigsaw'', including Janet Ellis, Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport. Boyd also hosted Children's BBC programme called ''Puzzle Trail''. Between 1982 and 1984, Boyd fronted Central Television's Saturday morning kids TV show '' The Saturday Show'' alongside Isla St Clair and followed this with '' Saturday Starship'' in 1985 (co-presented by Bonnie Langford). He was the host of CITV between 1991-3. In 1993/4, Boyd worked on The Children's Channel, a satellite television channel. In 1997, Boyd presented the TV programme ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Birgitte Toksvig (; ; born 3 May 1958) is a Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster on British radio, stage and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written plays, novels and books for children. In 1994, she came out as a lesbian. Toksvig took over from Stephen Fry as host of the BBC television quiz show '' QI'' in 2016 (series 'N'), having been a guest a number of times, and spent ten years hosting ''The News Quiz'' on BBC Radio 4. From 2017 to 2020 she was co-presenter of ''The Great British Bake Off'', alongside comedian Noel Fielding. In 2020, she stepped down and was replaced by Matt Lucas. Toksvig was the president of the Women of the Year Lunch from 2015 to 2017. Early life Toksvig was born in Denmark. Her father, Claus Toksvig, was a Danish journalist, broadcaster, and foreign correspondent; as a result, Toksvig spent most of her youth outside Denmark, mostly in New York City. Her mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Strachan
Michaela Evelyn Ann Strachan (born 7 April 1966) is an English television presenter and singer. Early life Born in Ewell, Surrey, Strachan grew up in Hinchley Wood and attended Chadsworth Stage School, then Claremont Fan Court School, both in Esher. In her teens, she suffered from anorexia. Later, while at ArtsEd, London, she briefly held jobs as an Avon lady and as a kissogram. After her years at ArtsEd, Strachan performed in theatre, before moving on to children's television. In 1984, she appeared in the musical ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool. Career Television Strachan was a presenter on Saturday-morning television in the 1980s, involved in such programmes as '' Good Morning Britain'' and ''Wide Awake Club'' with Timmy Mallett. In 1988, she hosted ''Boogie Box'' on music channel Music Box. From 1988 to 1992, Strachan starred as "Her" in the nightclub-set music show ''The Hitman and Her'' alongside Pete Waterman. In 1993, Strachan jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jensen
David Allan "Kid" Jensen (born 4 July 1950) is a Canadian-born British radio DJ and television presenter. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began as a radio DJ on Radio Luxembourg. Jensen was later a broadcaster for the BBC from 1976 to 1984, as a host on BBC Radio 1 and presenter on the TV music programme ''Top of the Pops'' from 1977 to 1984. Jensen has also hosted and presented for Capital FM and ITV among other stations. Early career Born into a Danish-origin family residing in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began his career in his home country at the age of sixteen playing jazz and classical music on CJOV-FM, in Kelowna, on a show called Music For Dining, which was sponsored a lot of the time by a number of local funeral parlours. He then joined Radio Luxembourg at the age of eighteen in November 1968, joining Paul Kay, Paul Burnett, Noel Edmonds and Tony Prince as the resident DJ team. His recruitment was part of the "all-live" initiative, bringing to an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
