Fiona
Bruce and Rod Liddle to "Call My Bluff"
BBC
News presenter Fiona Bruce is to chair the new series of the classic
BBC panel game Call My Bluff, as part of a new line-up that also
includes former Today programme editor Rod Liddle.
Bruce
will join the new series to be screened on BBC ONE Daytime from
this spring, with Rod Liddle and author/broadcaster Alan Coren as
team captains. Coren has been with the show since 1996.
BBC
Daytime Controller Alison Sharman said: "Call My Bluff is a
very popular show with the BBC's Daytime audience. I'm delighted
to announce this exciting, new line-up, which I'm sure will bring
a new feel to an already successful show."
Call
My Bluff is the popular word panel game in which contestants try
to pick the correct definition of an obscure word from a choice
of three.
It
was first shown on the BBC in October 1965, with Robin Ray as chair
and Robert Morley and Frank Muir as team captains.
The
new series will be filmed in London and is due to go out in a lunchtime
slot on BBC ONE.
Notes
to Editors
Biographies
Fiona
Bruce is a presenter on the BBC's Ten O'Clock News and BBC ONE's
Crimewatch UK programme.
She
began her career at the BBC in 1989 as a researcher and then assistant
producer on BBC ONE's Panorama.
Fiona
speaks fluent French and Italian and graduated from Oxford University.
Full
biography available.
Rod
Liddle is probably best known as the former editor of the BBC's
Today programme where he gained a reputation as being an extremely
talented and often outspoken editor.
He
is now a columnist for The Guardian, The Spectator and Country Life
and recently presented the BBC Current Affairs programme Seven Ways
to Topple Saddam.
Before
joining the BBC, Rod worked for The South Wales Echo and Western
Mail.
He
was also a research assistant and speechwriter for the Labour Party
from 1983 to 1987.
Rod
studied at the London School of Economics where he played in a rock
band.
Editor,
author and broadcaster Alan Coren's career spans four decades,
in which he has edited Punch and The Listener and written columns
for The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Times and Sunday Express.
He
has also contributed to numerous titles including Tatler, The Daily
Telegraph, Spectator and Times Literary Supplement.
He
has written more than 20 satirical books and is also a regular panelist
on Radio 4's The News Quiz.
Alan
studied at Oxford, the University of California, and Yale.
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, as well as six BBC radio
networks.
BBC
THREE will become available when it goes on air on 9 February 2003.
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