Sid Waddell

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== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
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Around the same time as [[The Indoor League]] began, Sid was the producer of YTV's nightly regional news show, ''Calendar'', producing over 600 editions of the programme.
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Around the same time as [[Indoor League]] began, Sid was the producer of YTV's nightly regional news show, ''Calendar'', producing over 600 editions of the programme.
Wrote the BBC Children's football-themed sitcom, ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/j/jossysgiants_1299001742.shtml Jossy's Giants]''.
Wrote the BBC Children's football-themed sitcom, ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/j/jossysgiants_1299001742.shtml Jossy's Giants]''.

Revision as of 13:42, 22 October 2007

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Contents

Shows

House of Games (voiceover)

Indoor League (producer)

Red Alert (lottery caller)

Biography

Although synonymous with his Georgie accent, Waddell was actually born in Alnwick, Northumberland. He has commentated on darts for donkeys years, first for the BBC then moving to Sky. He was the original producer of The Indoor League, the first British TV programme to broadcast darts along with many other pub games.

Trivia

Around the same time as Indoor League began, Sid was the producer of YTV's nightly regional news show, Calendar, producing over 600 editions of the programme.

Wrote the BBC Children's football-themed sitcom, Jossy's Giants.

He has a history degree from Cambridge. Who knew?

Web links

IMDb entry

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