{"id":12573,"date":"2019-10-11T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2019-10-11T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:46:44","slug":"show-discussion-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12573","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: The Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"153\" data-attachment-id=\"12574\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=12574\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dyerwall-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"272,153\" 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=\"dyerwall-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dyerwall-1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dyerwall-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12574\"\/><figcaption>You mug.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, 8:35pm,<br>BBC One<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We may never officially know which came first &#8211; Endemol buying the <strong>The Wall<\/strong> format or hiring hardman cockney actor Danny Dyer to be a gameshow host, and let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; it&#8217;s stunt casting that&#8217;s either going to look ingenious or fall very flat, and that&#8217;s just Angela Rippon reading the questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the BBC&#8217;s very own version of International Moderatehit <strong>The Wall<\/strong>, where pairs of contestants try and win thousands of pounds (although not, in all likelihood, anywhere close to the US top prize potential of $12m) from the titular wall, gambling on their partner&#8217;s ability to answer general knowledge questions. For every correct answer they can drop green balls into the wall, adding wherever they land (and there&#8217;s actually a little bit of strategy to this, the bigger amounts are further to the right so they can drop further to the right if they&#8217;re comfortable) but wrong answers will take money away. The person answering the questions won&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re right or wrong or not, leading to a possibly interesting, possibly not buy-out decision at the end of the show depending on how they&#8217;ve pitched it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US original is basically fine, it remains to be seen if the much smaller stakes (and slightly longer ad-less runtime) still make it worthwhile. Let us know what you think in the comments, Tweacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 8:35pm,BBC One We may never officially know which came first &#8211; Endemol buying the The Wall format or hiring hardman cockney actor Danny Dyer to be a gameshow host, and let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; it&#8217;s stunt casting that&#8217;s either going to look ingenious or fall very flat, and that&#8217;s just Angela Rippon reading the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12573\">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":[803,187,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3gN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573","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=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}