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New Show for Sports Nuts.

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  • 29-11-2004 7:36pm
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    mike65
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    If this is a half as good on TV as it is on Radio it'll be must see telly.
    Radio's Fighting Talk gets TV run

    Johnny Vaughan will return to host Fighting Talk on TV
    BBC Radio Five Live game show Fighting Talk is to transfer to TV for a trial run from Friday.

    The light-hearted radio programme sees pundits compete on air by winning points for their skill in debates about sporting issues.

    Johnny Vaughan, who presented the first series on Five Live, will host three shows on BBC Two from Friday.

    Panellists include journalist Piers Morgan, actor Bradley Walsh and former England manager Graham Taylor.

    Dickie Davies - who hosted ITV's long-running Saturday afternoon programme World of Sport - is also lined up to appear.

    Vaughan left the radio version of Fighting Talk when he began hosting the breakfast show on London radio station Capital FM.

    Picture rounds

    The Five Live show is now hosted by Christian O'Connell, the breakfast DJ on rock station Xfm. It airs on Saturday mornings, but is also the most popular show on the station's online "listen on demand" service.

    "It's going to be the same format but adapted for TV, so we'll have picture rounds and other things - we wouldn't be doing our jobs if we just took it straight from the radio," said producer Gregor Cameron.

    "It's an interesting show, the first to make it from Five Live to TV, and it's stayed a hit on Five Live even though it's had a change of presenter - and Johnny Vaughan and Christian O'Connell both have very different styles."

    The TV show will air on Friday at 1930 GMT (2000 in Scotland) on BBC Two.

    Mike.


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