{"id":11061,"date":"2018-08-28T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11061"},"modified":"2018-08-28T20:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:10:31","slug":"stool-pigeon-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11061","title":{"rendered":"Stool Pigeon August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK then, let&#8217;s see what has transpired. Don&#8217;t forget that these are given anonymously, so the actual truths are known only to the relevant parties. Here we go!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a bit of a weird opinion, but I think if the <strong>Weakest Link<\/strong> comes back it should be presented by Greg Davies playing a similar character to on <strong>Taskmaster<\/strong>. He feels so much more of a natural fit than all the other people being suggested.\u00a0<em>[Speaking of which, it&#8217;s been almost a year since the CiN Special and everyone was clamouring for a new series off the back of it despite the one-off being, well, not that good. What&#8217;s happened with that?]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Clarkson&#8217;s <strong>Who Wants To Be A Millionaire<\/strong> originally used pairs of contestants. I&#8217;m not sure what about Clarkson&#8217;s cheery demeanour made people think this would be a bad idea.\u00a0<em>[Not sure I ever really liked it as a pairs game, to be honest.]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Safeword<\/strong> US debuted its new season last week. They&#8217;ve screwed up the format: Teams play games to earn points, but have to post embarrassing things online to keep them. Loser takes a lie detector test.\u00a0<em>[I must confess I&#8217;ve never really watched <\/em>Safeword<em>, even if it does star FOTB Rick Edwards.]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I recently saw the words &#8216;<strong>University Challenge Dating Show<\/strong>&#8216; floating about as a format pitch.\u00a0<em>[I hope Jeremy Paxman will narrate. This sounds like a horrendous idea. And yet! I&#8217;m as guilty of playing the would\/wouldn&#8217;t game as everyone else on Twitter.]\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>With the popularity of <em>Fornite<\/em> these days, I wouldn&#8217;t be shocked to see them try and make a TV version of it (If they were smart, they&#8217;d adapt the <em>Battle For Money<\/em> format- that show seems tailor-made for it)&#8230;\u00a0<em>[Funnily enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10776\">I wrote a post about this sort of thing all the way back in March<\/a>.]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there we are! New season starts next week so hopefully we won&#8217;t be opening the Stool Pigeon for a little while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK then, let&#8217;s see what has transpired. Don&#8217;t forget that these are given anonymously, so the actual truths are known only to the relevant parties. Here we go! 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