[frogstamper]

Personally I doubt that Countdown has much more than a couple of years left in it, imo one of the main reasons it has run for so long were because of its two main presenters Richard Whitely and Carol Vorderman.
After the sad demise of Richard the show done well in contracting both Des Lynam and O'Connor, the pair of them certainly appealed to the shows core audience with their laid back style, both ably supported by Carol Vorderman.
Now both of these original presenters have left Countdown will become just one more tea-time quiz show in a market already full of them.