{"id":12968,"date":"2020-04-21T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12968"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:51:40","slug":"lockdown-entertainment-on-bbc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12968","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown entertainment on BBC2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Things we&#8217;ve just discovered on old-school linear television (alright, Grandad) this lunchtime when my internet went down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The new series of Bother&#8217;s Bar surprise fave <strong>I&#8217;ll Get This<\/strong> started last week and continues on Tuesday nights at 10pm.<\/li><li>I watched <strong>Curiosity<\/strong> for the first time, currently being repeated on BBC2 at 1pm. Antiques not really my thing (although I love an auction, obviously), but thought this was quite a neat show &#8211; like an Antiques <strong>Crystal Maze<\/strong> (Paul Martin&#8217;s got the personality to carry it off, and he even has Richard O&#8217; Brien style asides to the camera, mainly  informational, some fun) as people go into themed rooms and complete pricing\/dating\/odd one out style challenges. Not must watch by any means, but I absolutely appreciate what they&#8217;ve tried to do within the confines of a BBC daytime budget. And Baxter (played by Maggie) probably the best gameshow dog since The One Off <strong>The Great Antiques Hunt<\/strong> with Jilly Goolden.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> it sounds like there was a <strong>Taskmaster<\/strong> coming soon advert after <strong>Countdown<\/strong> today (although it can&#8217;t be that soon, surely?). With apologies for comment jumping on this post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/WPSCrimsonshade\/status\/1252606227311472641\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/WPSCrimsonshade\/status\/1252607095947624456\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally (with all these tweets this feels like a Daily Express article):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This&#39;d make more sense, ta. But I didn&#39;t see it to comment myself. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RnEWMVm2JK\">https:\/\/t.co\/RnEWMVm2JK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brig Bother (@BothersBar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BothersBar\/status\/1252610576133566466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So there we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things we&#8217;ve just discovered on old-school linear television (alright, Grandad) this lunchtime when my internet went down: The new series of Bother&#8217;s Bar surprise fave I&#8217;ll Get This started last week and continues on Tuesday nights at 10pm. I watched Curiosity for the first time, currently being repeated on BBC2 at 1pm. 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