{"id":13937,"date":"2022-02-03T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13937"},"modified":"2022-02-03T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:24:15","slug":"the-kubler-ross-five-stages-of-ant-and-dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13937","title":{"rendered":"The Kubler-Ross Five Stages of Ant and Dec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" data-attachment-id=\"13938\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=13938\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec.png\" data-orig-size=\"1200,664\" 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=\"kuberantdec\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec-1024x567.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec-300x166.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec-660x365.png 660w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kuberantdec.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>A scientific graph to demonstrate<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/presscentre\/press-releases\/itv-recommissions-ant-decs-limitless-win\"><strong>Limitless Win<\/strong> has been renewed<\/a> but I still think it&#8217;s going to be two and out as it seems to be following a pretty standard trajectory for a big money Ant and Dec quiz, as set out by Kubler-Ross in the 1960s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>HYPE<\/strong> &#8211; The show is hyped for <em>months<\/em> in advance. The narrative of how it came about is set &#8211; Ant and Dec play it in a pub, Simon Cowell says it&#8217;s just like <strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong> etc. This is GOING TO BE BIG.<\/li><li><strong>REVEAL<\/strong> &#8211; The first episode goes out. It&#8217;s a hit! As well it should be with months of hype and Ant and Dec at the helm. People declare it the best thing ever, perhaps &#8220;the best new quiz since <strong>Millionaire<\/strong>&#8220;. It might open with a large win &#8211; look at the POTENTIAL.<\/li><li><strong>REALITY<\/strong> &#8211; But it can&#8217;t keep that potential up. Somehow instead of increasing its audience, they&#8217;re running away. Consistently. Sure, it&#8217;s still doing alright, I mean it does have Ant and Dec in it, but it turns out it&#8217;s not the Next Big Thing after all. And with that sort of prizemoney being thrown around, maybe even a bit dangerous.<\/li><li><strong>RECOMMISSION<\/strong> &#8211; Nobody wants to admit to making a mistake though, and besides it was doing OK with the A16-34s. It can have a second series &#8211; it might even improve in some ways. But the audiences are still disappearing &#8211; the format&#8217;s just not all that and Ant and Dec are hamstrung by said format.<\/li><li><strong>ACCEPTANCE<\/strong> &#8211; No third series is forthcoming.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limitless Win has been renewed but I still think it&#8217;s going to be two and out as it seems to be following a pretty standard trajectory for a big money Ant and Dec quiz, as set out by Kubler-Ross in the 1960s: HYPE &#8211; The show is hyped for months in advance. The narrative of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13937\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13937","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-3CN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937","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=13937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}