{"id":12270,"date":"2019-04-23T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12270"},"modified":"2019-04-23T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:33:56","slug":"stool-pigeon-april-2019-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12270","title":{"rendered":"Stool Pigeon April 2019 &#8211; The Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12203\">Last month<\/a>, a really interesting selection of stories which invited a lot of comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month? Er&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As ever, only the writer and the people involved know the truth, let us try and sort the wheat (truth) from the chaff (lies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hearing rumours that the <strong>Survivor UK<\/strong> revival may have found a host &#8211; Rylan has been in negotiations for some time. (<em>Two things of note here: there&#8217;s a Survivor UK revival? Secondly, as much as I love Rylan, I can&#8217;t see &#8220;&#8216;ere, you&#8217;ve just won immunity babes!&#8221; flying. I call BS.<\/em>)<\/li><li>After the success of Ben Justice\u2019s YouTube video countdown series &#8211; he and Luna Cat have been targeted as the new presenters of <strong>the Crystal Maze<\/strong> &#x1f602; <em>(Well it&#8217;s only taken six weeks but FINALLY we have our first piece of Ben Justice fanfic.)<\/em><\/li><li>Very early stages, but I&#8217;ve heard whispers that Endemol are considering reviving <strong>Golden Balls<\/strong> &#8211; no words on Jasper Carrott returning.  <em>(Intriguing if true, although I&#8217;m not sure where it would go. ITV&#8217;s afternoon line-up is solid right now. Jasper Carrott is 74 years old.)<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Eggheads<\/strong> rumour appears to be true. The regular series producer has been casting around for a new job. <em>(Not sure how I feel about this. Sure, it&#8217;s just Eggheads, but it&#8217;s been a solid around-a-million an ep since time immemorial. I mean it&#8217;s not as hip as <\/em><strong><em>Richard Osman&#8217;s House of Games<\/em><\/strong><em> but it probably could have been treated a bit more nicely.)<\/em><\/li><li>Not looking good for a second series of <strong>WonderBall<\/strong> &#8211; averaged 11,000 viewers last week, and one episode in the run had fewer than 3,000. Not helped by generally low viewership for BBC Scotland, mind. <em>(Bit of a shame that, although I haven&#8217;t gone out of my way to watch it since the first ep, so&#8230;)<\/em><\/li><li>I can exclusively reveal the number 1 spot on &#8220;Ben Justice\u2019s Top 100 UK Game Shows of All Time&#8221; will go to: <strong>Take on the Twisters<\/strong>. <em>(That&#8217;s C21 FORMAT OF THE YEAR Take On The Twisters, to you.)<\/em><\/li><li>Some significant money has been spent on the upcoming season of &#8220;<strong>The Crystal Maze<\/strong>&#8220;, which wouldn&#8217;t make sense if they knew it was their last season (in response to last month&#8217;s Stool Pigeon). <em>(Shutting the gate after the horse has bolted. Surprised there&#8217;s been no recommission press release from C4 about this.)<\/em><\/li><li>Going off previous suggestion that <strong>Eggheads<\/strong> is to be cancelled, rumours are abound BBC is considering keeping on some of the <em>Eggheads<\/em> and is considering pitches for new intellectual formats starring them; though discussions are at an early stage. (<em>Would make sense. Although if a space ever came up on <strong>The Chase<\/strong>&#8230;<\/em>)<\/li><li>The reason no one has seen Richard O\u2019Brien in years is that he has been cryogenically frozen and stored beneath Disneyland next to Walt disney\u2019s head. <em>(Unless you&#8217;re in New Zealand where he&#8217;s been hosting a show that&#8217;s a little bit like Who Do You Think You Are?)<\/em><\/li><li>From seeing posts on Twitter, celebrities confirmed to appear on Series 3 of HoG include; Kate Humble Ivo Graham Andi Oliver Phill Jupitus Kerry Godliman Radzi Chinyanganya Ebony Rainford-Brent Hal Cruttenden June Sarpong Dev Griffin Debbie McGee Alex Horne Rachel Parris Jay Blades Reverend Kate Bottley Susan Calman Judy Murray Rob Corp <em>(looking forward to see what Alex Horne thinks of his format.)<\/em><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/S4C\/status\/1116363266991828992?s=19\">S4C deciding to &#8216;own the story&#8217; after some unfortunate question writing.<\/a> (I think this &#8216;works&#8217; in English too.) <em>(Heh. The correct answer is B by the way.)<\/em><\/li><li>Supposedly, if you win the <strong>Impossible<\/strong> \u00a310K, it&#8217;s in your account that day. <em>(There&#8217;s a lot of having to put those pound coins in those plastic bags before the bank shuts though.)<\/em><\/li><li>Say, wasn&#8217;t it this website&#8217;s birthday last week? Congratulations! How many years are you on now? <em>(Hey you&#8217;re right! 19th April 2004, which makes us 15! Or if you work in television, 16 probably.)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> So there we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, a really interesting selection of stories which invited a lot of comment. This month? Er&#8230; As ever, only the writer and the people involved know the truth, let us try and sort the wheat (truth) from the chaff (lies). 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