Countdown (game show) Stelling was confirmed as the new host, with Oxford graduate Rachel Riley in the Vorderman role. It was announced on 24 May 2011 that Stelling would be leaving the programme, and he presented his final show on 16 December 2011. On 16 November 2011, it was announced that Nick Hewer would be taking over as host, with his first show broadcast on 9 January 2012. "Countdown" quickly established cult status within British television – an image which it maintains today, despite numerous changes of rules and personnel. The programme's audience comprises mainly students, homemakers and pensioners, owing to the "teatime"
Susan Wood (television presenter) a Bravo award by the New Zealand Skeptics for her Fiordland moose interview from June 27. Susan Wood (television presenter) Susan Wood is a New Zealand television presenter who hosted TV ONE's nightly news and current affairs show "Close Up". The daughter of Alex Wood the chief reporter of the now-defunct Auckland Star. Wood began her career in journalism in 1979 as a print reporter for the "Bay of Plenty Times" before moving on to "The New Zealand Herald" in Auckland to work as the court and then police reporter. She began her career with TVNZ in 1985 as a