Hosted by Michael Hing, each week three celebrity contestants compete in a hilarious version of the classic show ‘Letters and Numbers’. Featuring wordsmith David Astle in Dictionary Corner offering endless nuggets of wisdom that you never knew you didn’t know! Over at the board, numbers expert Lily Serna explains mathematical techniques in a way that makes complete sense.
Also featuring a special guest each week in Dictionary Corner, assisting David and providing their own brand of knowledge in a dedicated segment. The compulsive play along letters and numbers games are back with the all-important conundrum buzzer round to crown the winning celebrity.
Episode 1: Michael, David and Lily are joined by celebrity contestants Dave Thornton, Alex Lee, Luke McGregor and special Dictionary Corner guest Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall.
Glad that the show is returning. But it looks like it will be three teams of one again. Should have been two teams of duos. So they can banter more with each other.
The show didn’t really do that well on Saturday nights, so glad its been moved to Monday nights.
I think they’re starting to find their groove with Celebrity Letters and Numbers. Last week’s episode was very good. Probably because they had a better quality of celebrity on the show.
Cal Wilson was great in Dictionary Corner. Mark Humphries and Matt Okine were good celebrity players.
Still think the show would be much better if they had two teams of two, like the British version does.
Probably because it repeated too well, so SBS didn’t see the need to continue with new episodes.
Short sighted of course because more new episodes means even more to repeat - they could get away with half the episode count and have a new series for half the year then repeat the series from last year in the second half.
Agree that it has been rating pretty well for the repeats, despite them airing quite a number of times now.
Over the years, they could have strung out some new episodes, to repeat them with other seasons throughout the year. Surely Letters and Numbers is cheap to make?
SBS has aired new seasons of Mastermind over recent years, and that’s cheap to make (although they do have “researchers” to go through all the specialised topics to get the questions).
Celebrity Letters And Numbers celebrates its brand-new fourth season! Hosted by Michael Hing, each week three celebrity contestants and a special guest in the Dictionary Corner join wordsmith David Astle and numbers expert Lily Serna to play a hilarious version of the classic show.
Episode 1:
Hosted by Michael Hing and featuring wordsmith David Astle and numbers expert Lily Serna, joined by celebrity contestants Merrick Watts, Jenny Tian, Dylan Lewis and special Dictionary Corner guest Matt Stewart.
Am surprised that this is returning again. Still looks like it will be three celebrities competing against each other, so id say that the format will be the same. Better if they were in teams of two, just like the British version…
Was this filmed at the same time as Season 2? Lily being pregnant in both seasons has real Rachel Riley being consistently pregnant in the UK version vibes
