{"id":11353,"date":"2018-10-30T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11353"},"modified":"2018-10-30T23:42:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T23:42:53","slug":"stool-pigeon-october-2018-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11353","title":{"rendered":"Stool Pigeon October 2018: The Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right, I left my Anonybox open all afternoon, let&#8217;s see what interesting gossip you didn&#8217;t want to put your name on you have come up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Letterbox<\/strong> is still boring.\u00a0<em>&#8211; Well, yes.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In the U.S., a local station in Philadelphia has airing a local game show called &#8220;<strong>The Class-H Room<\/strong>&#8221; (no, really, that&#8217;s how they spell it) for about a month now. It pits teams of students and teachers against each other. All episodes have uploaded on YouTube. &#8211; <em>I can&#8217;t work it out, is that meant to be a pun? It&#8217;s Canada&#8217;s <strong>Smart Ask<\/strong> all over again.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The worst &#8220;Tell us a fun fact about yourself&#8221; response I ever heard at a quiz show audition was, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been arrested for murder twice&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>I have been present at several pitches for pretty straightforward quiz shows at which someone has suggested &#8220;what if we made them wear shock suits?&#8221;. It has never once improved anything.\u00a0<em>&#8211; Yeah, I mean at most it&#8217;s a round of <strong>Distraction<\/strong> isn&#8217;t it? Where do you go from there? At least with something like <strong>Russian Roulette<\/strong> once you&#8217;ve comically screamed and fallen through the floor you&#8217;re literally out and the show progresses.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Crystal maze live is moving its London maze to the trocadero in the new year. Completely new games apparently too.\u00a0<em>&#8211; yes indeed, 32 of them apparently. Little Lion had been trailing a mystery announcement for ages and people assumed it would be something new and exciting, and there&#8217;s me going &#8220;it&#8217;s probably just going to be a new <strong>Crystal Maze<\/strong>.&#8221; I am skill.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>James Acaster should be on every series of <strong>Taskmaster<\/strong>, in disguise if necessary.\u00a0<em>&#8211; When Taskmaster first started, I loved the idea of it but thought it should be a bit more argumentative. Seven series later we finally have an aggressively entertaining panel and it&#8217;s getting its biggest ever numbers. Good.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Enjoyed inside number 9 live Halloween Ghostwatch remake, although compared to Ghostwatch in writing it\u2019s a little lacking and the other program flashbacks are&#8230;.we\u2019ll there just a bit to silly in my taste. Needed to be PERFECTLY edited to work altogether. Though I will applied the crew for having the nerve to do a thing like this in this modern day and age and actually working, sorta&#8230;. makes me wonder what a proper official Ghostwatch remake would be like&#8230;. ( and I know there was a short story sequel by the original creator!)\u00a0<em>&#8211; fascinated by the puntctuation here but yes I watched it on catch-up having forgotten it was on and enjoyed it although I think there were probably one or two elements too many, less is sometimes more. I laughed when I heard it lost 30% of its audience about ten minutes in.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Edit<\/b>: Facebook considering an international version of <b>The Mole. <\/b><i>Ooh!<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there we are! Join us next time for your fascinating anonymous opinions and gossip the next time we open the Stool Pigeon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right, I left my Anonybox open all afternoon, let&#8217;s see what interesting gossip you didn&#8217;t want to put your name on you have come up with: Letterbox is still boring.\u00a0&#8211; Well, yes. 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