{"id":1345,"date":"2010-05-23T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T11:14:48","slug":"board-of-excitement-23rd-29th-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 23rd-29th May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy this whilst it lasts, there might not be anything on next week&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Chase <\/strong>(5pm, Weekdays, ITV1) &#8211; A\u00a0new run for let&#8217;s be honest, ITV&#8217;s answer to <em>Eggheads<\/em>.\u00a0The first series was mildly entertaining, I wonder if they&#8217;ve ironed out the creases for this second, longer run.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Come Dine With Me<\/strong> (9pm, Monday, C4) &#8211; the gameshow hosts special featuring Pat Sharp, Jenny Powell, Anthea Redfern and crazy uncle Michael Barrymore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Million Pound Drop &#8211; Live! <\/strong>(10pm, Monday &#8211; Friday, 9:30pm Saturday, Channel 4) &#8211; the lovely Davina&#8217;s back with contestants trying to avoid dropping money through holes. And you&#8217;ll be able to play along live on the internet! I&#8217;ve been a bit down on the theory of this show, but I am gettiong more excited the closer it gets, so we&#8217;ll see.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s only the bloody Eurovision Song Contest! <\/strong>(Right, pay attention: Semi-finals are Tuesday and Thursday, 8pm on BBC3, the grand final is 8pm on Saturday on BBC1 and BBCHD) &#8211; I&#8217;ve not been following this at all this year, so all the songs are going to be a surprise to me, except for the UK entry sung by Josh Dubovie which let&#8217;s be honest, probably won&#8217;t even be getting any points from Ireland this year. Live from Oslo, the semi-finals will have commentary from Paddy O&#8217;Connell and Sarah Sawood, Saturday&#8217;s grand final will be commentated by Graham Norton who if he is as good as last year will be very good indeed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy this whilst it lasts, there might not be anything on next week&#8217;s&#8230; The Chase (5pm, Weekdays, ITV1) &#8211; A\u00a0new run for let&#8217;s be honest, ITV&#8217;s answer to Eggheads.\u00a0The first series was mildly entertaining, I wonder if they&#8217;ve ironed out the creases for this second, longer run.\u00a0 Come Dine With Me (9pm, Monday, C4) &#8211;\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1345\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-excitement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-lH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}