{"id":10431,"date":"2017-11-12T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10431"},"modified":"2017-11-12T21:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:21:31","slug":"show-discussion-dont-say-it-bring-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10431","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Don&#8217;t Say It, Bring It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dontsayit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10432\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=10432\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dontsayit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"658,370\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dontsayit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dontsayit.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dontsayit-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dontsayit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dontsayit.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Weekdays, 7pm (and 7:30pm)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a long time now Dave have been at the forefront of taking slightly unusual show ideas and making a success of them (<strong>School of Hard Sums!<\/strong> <strong>Go 8 Bit!<\/strong> <strong>Taskmaster!<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>However I&#8217;m slightly baffled by this commission of a format that&#8217;s been knocking around for years and years. Jason Byrne (off of <strong>Wild Things<\/strong>) rocks up at various town centres and asks people questions for cash money. But the catch is they can&#8217;t say the answers, they have to bring them.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve long been sceptical of vox-pop based shows, feel much too light and inessential, and the only one that&#8217;s really worked is <strong>Billy On The Street<\/strong> which mainly works because each segment is effectively a half-improvised comedy sketch usually with a well-thought out core, you don&#8217;t really watch for the quiz, that&#8217;s just the conduit for the comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Byrne will certainly shout at people I&#8217;m sure but it remains to be seen how much of a must-watch this will be. In the plus column, there are good people behind it and Dave&#8217;s hit rate with this sort of thing is quite high, so we won&#8217;t write it off until we&#8217;ve seen it. It&#8217;s twenty episodes so it looks like they&#8217;re going to burn through them in two weeks as they seem to be showing two episodes back to back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekdays, 7pm (and 7:30pm) Dave For a long time now Dave have been at the forefront of taking slightly unusual show ideas and making a success of them (School of Hard Sums! Go 8 Bit! Taskmaster!). However I&#8217;m slightly baffled by this commission of a format that&#8217;s been knocking around for years and years. Jason\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10431\">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":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2If","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431","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=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}