Norton Would Be The Irish’s Most Missed TV Personality

What TV presenter would you miss the most if your television stopped working?

For the Irish, it’s Graham Norton apparently.

A survey reveals Corkman Norton is the presenter that people would miss the most if their television suddenly stopped working.

The survey was undertaken by Sky Ireland to mark the ‘National Switchover Week’, and they warned that with approximately one quarter of people yet to make the switch to a digital TV provider, many households have just one month left to avoid their Cork star disappearing from their living room screens.

We’d make sure to keep his hilarious appearance on Father Ted on tape for ourselves… “Tony, Tony!”

The Irish funnyman was the universal top choice among both male and female participants in the research.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jeff Stelling from Soccer Saturday was the second most popular TV personality amongst men…

 

This is the guy our male counterparts would miss the most...

When questioned about the digital switchover, over 18 per cent of those who have yet to switch say they simply just haven’t had the time to do it yet. A total of 17 per cent say they still need to check their options and 11 per cent said they weren’t aware they had to switch, or just didn’t know how to.

Still, it seems television is a very important part of the average Irish person’s life. 60 per cent of people said the screen was important or very important to them, with some saying they couldn’t live without their television.

Males admitted to being the bigger couch potatoes, with 62 per cent of them citing the TV as very important in their everyday lives, compared to a lower 58 per cent of women.

Dallas has proved popular as it returned to our screens after twenty years this summer, but people said they would love to see action hero Macgyver remade, followed by The A-Team, Little House On The Prairie, Knightrider and M.A.S.H.

And they very well could be after Dallas’s surprising success…

Graham is here to stay anyway, just so long as you make the digital switch on time…