{"id":14001,"date":"2022-03-30T12:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14001"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:34:24","slug":"channel-5-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14001","title":{"rendered":"Channel 5 at 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy 25th birthday to Channel 5! For the first five years or so of its life it was probably THE place to go for The Sort Of Things We Like &#8211; four series of <strong>Fort Boyard<\/strong>, two brilliant series of <strong>The Mole<\/strong>, <strong>The Desert Forges<\/strong>, <strong>Whittle<\/strong> and of course a show that predated the escape room craze (even if it didn&#8217;t know it at the time) by a good ten-fifteen years or so <strong>Jailbreak<\/strong> from 2000. Someone uploaded another episode last year, look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8u5eZu5jz8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Escape rooms as TV shows is still the nut everyone&#8217;s been trying to crack to not much success &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8760\">our favourite being <strong>Race to Escape<\/strong><\/a>, but that was only a one-series wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course we can&#8217;t forget <strong>Big Brother<\/strong>, of varying quality, but &#8220;David&#8217;s dead&#8221; is the greatest reality TV moment of all time, so there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays there&#8217;s not much on Channel 5 that we watch, unfortunately. But we hope that one day they dip their toes back into adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 25th birthday to Channel 5! For the first five years or so of its life it was probably THE place to go for The Sort Of Things We Like &#8211; four series of Fort Boyard, two brilliant series of The Mole, The Desert Forges, Whittle and of course a show that predated the escape\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14001\">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-14001","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-3DP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001","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=14001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}