{"id":13610,"date":"2021-05-13T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:52:26","slug":"show-discussion-tom-allens-quizness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13610","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Tom Allen’s Quizness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fridays, 8pm,
Channel 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapidly becoming TV’s hardest working man Tom Allen invites contestants to show off their knowledge in a bid to win \u00a325,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT, it’s not just knowledge that’s needed but an element of mental agility too as they must usually do something to the answers to make it sound a bit silly, whether that be substituting words that begin with certain letters with different ones, or forming a chain of answers that builds up to a punchline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bit Big Money<\/em> Richard Osman’s House Of Games<\/strong>? Maybe. I can say, having done some of the early runthroughs, that there’s a subset of people who are likely to absolutely dig it, and probably a subset of people it’s likely to leave a bit cold. Lots of Bother’s Bar sorts working behind the scenes on this, so I’m hoping it’s a good end result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what do you think? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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