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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. | 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]''. The series was based on his son Daniel's experience of joining a Leeds-based junior football team called the 'Churwell Lions', who apparently, despite their name, 'didn't exactly roar'! The team, including Daniel himself, actually appeared in a football game in the firstever edition of the show! |
He has a history degree from Cambridge. Who knew? | He has a history degree from Cambridge. Who knew? | ||
Revision as of 21:46, 9 September 2009
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. The series was based on his son Daniel's experience of joining a Leeds-based junior football team called the 'Churwell Lions', who apparently, despite their name, 'didn't exactly roar'! The team, including Daniel himself, actually appeared in a football game in the firstever edition of the show!
He has a history degree from Cambridge. Who knew?
