{"id":13661,"date":"2021-06-27T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13661"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:23:54","slug":"and-now-romesh-is-doing-weakest-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13661","title":{"rendered":"And now Romesh is doing Weakest Link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anne Robinson starts her tenure as Countdown<\/strong> host tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But tonight The Sun has the scoop<\/a> that Romesh Ranganathan is being lined up to host a rebooted Weakest Link<\/strong>, intended for Saturday night and played with celebs for charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a good booking (for years I thought it should be Robert Rinder but I can see why they’ve gone for Romesh) for this up and coming TV comic who hasn’t been associated with a new show for the best part of a week now. His pissed-off uncle persona kind of fits, and Ranganation<\/em> recently won a BAFTA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only two things working against it: if it’s going to use the recent point-missing US one as a model, and that the Children in Need one a few years ago was a bit crap<\/a>. Yes I know the appeal is mainly in the insults, but you need a decent game in order to set them up properly, hopefully the production team will have taken on board lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne Robinson starts her tenure as Countdown host tomorrow. But tonight The Sun has the scoop that Romesh Ranganathan is being lined up to host a rebooted Weakest Link, intended for Saturday night and played with celebs for charity. It’s a good booking (for years I thought it should be Robert Rinder but I can\u2026 Read More »<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3yl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661","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=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}