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"
Johannes Stelling between 1901 and 1919 Johannes Stelling worked as the editor of the , a Social Democrat daily newspaper serving Lübeck and the surrounding area. His period as editor was a long one, and according to the biographical note on Stelling that appears, alongside those of other members, in the "Reichstag Handbooks" of subsequent decades, he was imprisoned several times during these years. In 1905 the first four Social Democrats were elected to the city council of Lübeck. One of them was Johannes Stelling. Slightly more than two years later, in the municipal election of November 1907, the number of votes