{"id":10352,"date":"2017-09-28T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:22:19","slug":"everythings-going-to-be-like-taskmaster-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10352","title":{"rendered":"Everything&#8217;s going to be like Taskmaster now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming screeching in like a screeching thing, ITV2 are piloting a show called <strong>Crashtag<\/strong> which is described on SRO, <a href=\"http:\/\/sroaudiences.com\/application.asp?show_id=3045\">where you can get tickets,<\/a> thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Crashtag!<\/b>\u00a0is a brand new ITV2 gameshow from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedy act\u00a0<b>Goose<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Two teams compete in a series of innovative, strobe-speed challenges that defibrillate the meaning of the word \u2018gameshow\u2019. Come and be in the audience! You won\u2019t know what\u2019s hit you but you\u2019ll like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/28\/38016\/goose_pilot_an_itv2_gameshow\">Chortle are describing it as<\/a> &#8220;a <strong>Taskmaster<\/strong>-style series of physical challenges between competing teams of comedians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you like shows that are a bit like <del>Do A Thing And Win Some Poi<\/del>\u00a0<strong>Taskmaster<\/strong> whilst not being as good as <strong>Taskmaster\u00a0<\/strong>because the feeling I get is most pitches over the next year or so will feature the phrase &#8220;it&#8217;s a bit like <strong>Taskmaster<\/strong>&#8221; in it somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, we look forward to seeing strobe-speed challenges that defibrillate the meaning of the word gameshow. Although that does make it sound a bit like <strong>Reflex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Bother&#8217;s Bar favourites Barnstorm Games have released an all-new Ultimate Chase app for \u00a32.99. <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/the-chase-ultimate-edition\/id1191485284?mt=8\">It&#8217;s out on iTunes<\/a>, and presumably it&#8217;s coming out on Android although Google Play don&#8217;t seem to have it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming screeching in like a screeching thing, ITV2 are piloting a show called Crashtag which is described on SRO, where you can get tickets, thusly: Crashtag!\u00a0is a brand new ITV2 gameshow from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedy act\u00a0Goose. Two teams compete in a series of innovative, strobe-speed challenges that defibrillate the meaning of the word \u2018gameshow\u2019.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10352\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2GY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}