Digital Spy is reporting that 74 year old Des O’Connor will be replacing the vacating Des Lynam as the new host of the popular Channel4 game show “Countdown”.  The Sun is also reporting that he will screentest next week, having beaten very popular UK personalities, such as (in roles most known in the US) “UK Whose Line is it Anyway?” performer Stephen Fry and FOX’s “The Rich Li$t” host Eamonn Holmes.  Lynam will finish taping in December, as he says the travel from his home to the studio is too much.