University Challenge to get a new host

[LookItsMeAgain]

Just after seeing that Jeremy Paxman will be stepping down as the host and question-master on University Challenge.

www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62561558

He's been in the chair for the past 28 years!

I didn't realise it has been that long.

Who do you think should take over posing the questions, taking into account that they generally have to speak rather quickly at reading out the questions and have to know how to pronounce so many words that are not in the general lexicon for daily use?

I really don't like Amol Rajan as a news person. Maybe he will come across better in this. I shall reserve judgement.

Still miss Eddie from Radio 4 PM show

Amol Rajan does seem to get an awful lot of work I've noticed! Do the BBC know there are other POC available?!

Robert Rinder

Aaaarrrggghh! University Challenge is my all-time absolute favourite quiz show and I cannot bloody stand Amol bloody Rajan. He must have the dirt on somebody at the BBC. Samira Ahmed wanted to do it and she would have been much better; far more gravitas. It's almost a shame Clive Myrie got the Mastermind gig because he would have been perfect too.

Buggering, buggering bollocks! Where have they got the idea that Rajan is popular or even tolerable?

No negative opinion of Amol Rajan, but I would have loved it to have been Eddie Mair!!

<lowers tone> Amol is easy on the eye isnt he?

We should campaign for Eddie Mair to be reinstated on PM. He was such a comforting presenter of the news.

Is Amol going to chair it with his usual 'fairly-monotone-fast-let's-incline-towards-the-trendy-dropping-of-the-t' way? Surely there are others who would speak more clearly.