{"id":13455,"date":"2021-02-24T10:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13455"},"modified":"2021-02-24T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:05:01","slug":"show-discussion-gordon-ramsays-bank-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13455","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Gordon Ramsay&#8217;s Bank Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-attachment-id=\"13430\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=13430\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bankbalance.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"613,344\" 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=\"bankbalance\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bankbalance.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bankbalance-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bankbalance-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bankbalance.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Various weeknights over the next three weeks, 9pm,<br>BBC1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extremely unusual scheduling for a shiny floor show on the BBC this which suggests either a) confidence and a willingness to ape <strong>Millionaire<\/strong> or b) desperation over a lack of shows in the bank. <strong>Gordon Ramsay&#8217;s Bank Balance<\/strong> sees contestants attempt to win up to \u00a3100,000 by answering questions and balancing gold bars atop an increasingly unstable table &#8211; wrong answers mean adding penalty bars, and if a stack falls down it&#8217;s game over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of the way they&#8217;ve recorded audience reaction, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13429#comment-579028\">we&#8217;ve already got some idea<\/a> as to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvzoneuk.com\/post\/bankbalance-tvzonereview\">quality of the largely edited shows<\/a>. Clearly quite a lot of interest is going to lie in how well Gordon Ramsay fits in as host &#8211; it&#8217;s got a post-watershed slot so it will be interesting to see how his natural prickliness combines with the high tension the show wants to have. Not too dissimilar to Jeremy Clarkson on <em>Millionaire<\/em>, which has been a success by and large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does the end result work? Let us know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various weeknights over the next three weeks, 9pm,BBC1 Extremely unusual scheduling for a shiny floor show on the BBC this which suggests either a) confidence and a willingness to ape Millionaire or b) desperation over a lack of shows in the bank. Gordon Ramsay&#8217;s Bank Balance sees contestants attempt to win up to \u00a3100,000 by\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13455\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3v1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455","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=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}