{"id":11063,"date":"2018-08-31T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:24:02","slug":"the-door-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11063","title":{"rendered":"The Door revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no <strong>Crystal Maze<\/strong> tonight as it&#8217;s ended its run. So! Thanks to a tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/danielmarkhurst\">@danielmarkhurst<\/a> let us revisit what ITV were determined to make &#8220;the new <em>Crystal Maze<\/em>&#8221; in 2010 with the second of two episodes of&#8230; <strong>The Door<\/strong>, with thanks to the uploader:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clWPupsZAiU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Looking at it through 2018 eyes it looks pretty damn lavish, they would have had to have built separate sets for each of the challenges and they look pretty good. Really it&#8217;s a shame the challenges are a bit trite (and it feels like that laser maze goes on for about ten minutes) and involve a lot of Rummaging In Stuff (this was particularly true of the first ep IIRC) and the US style confessionals remain hugely irritating. Great imagination in the sets, less so in the content. If you want to read what we thought at the time, there are two threads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1027\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1029\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time ITV had tried to upscale Bushtucker Trials into their own format as they tried making a big thing of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VPbYdAbOE0g?t=3m31s\"><strong>Scream If You Want To Get Off<\/strong><\/a>, starring Nigel Marven and Charlie Brockett, but despite the claims at the time it was the scariest show on television it basically ended up being <strong>It&#8217;s a Knockout<\/strong> + an occasional animal in South Africa. It didn&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p>It always amazes me to remember that in the first series of <strong>I&#8217;m a Celeb<\/strong>, one of the trials was just <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/etsJcx981LE?t=6m27s\">Nell McAndrew on a Bucking Bronco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no Crystal Maze tonight as it&#8217;s ended its run. So! Thanks to a tweet from @danielmarkhurst let us revisit what ITV were determined to make &#8220;the new Crystal Maze&#8221; in 2010 with the second of two episodes of&#8230; The Door, with thanks to the uploader: Looking at it through 2018 eyes it looks pretty\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11063\">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-11063","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-2Sr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","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=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}