{"id":11380,"date":"2018-11-20T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:52:26","slug":"shows-that-could-be-bought-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11380","title":{"rendered":"Shows that could be bought back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news everyone! They&#8217;re bringing <strong>Blockbusters<\/strong> back! It has been about three weeks since the last revival after all, only now they&#8217;re asking for students who clearly won&#8217;t have been around when the original was on and therefore has no cultural cache. Still it&#8217;s lucky that shows are an hour long these days, seeing the paroxyisms of laughter &#8220;Can I have a P please?&#8221; got every single time on the Challenge revival goodness knows how eye-watering an event it will be everytime in 2019 and both contestants and audiences at home will require five minutes to just catch their breath each time it happens. It&#8217;s a reference that ages like a fine wine, look:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=11381\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"781,453\" 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=\"hilaritymatrix\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix.jpg 781w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hilaritymatrix-660x383.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just science. I look forward to them keeping it \u00a35 a question as well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, someone (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCo8boMKtnXuNAaqlly4dSKA\">TheWestonator89, who has a lot of good stuff on his channel<\/a>) uploaded most of an episode of Dale Winton&#8217;s <strong>The Other Half<\/strong> on Youtube the other day and it struck me that there&#8217;s no real reason it couldn&#8217;t work today, indeed with reality TV being as it is everyone snogging everyone else seems pretty normal. Great theme tune as well.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5IvBTy1GsUk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news everyone! They&#8217;re bringing Blockbusters back! It has been about three weeks since the last revival after all, only now they&#8217;re asking for students who clearly won&#8217;t have been around when the original was on and therefore has no cultural cache. Still it&#8217;s lucky that shows are an hour long these days, seeing the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11380\">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-11380","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-2Xy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","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=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}