{"id":14481,"date":"2023-07-20T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T08:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14481"},"modified":"2023-07-20T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T08:19:03","slug":"romesh-and-tom-take-takeshis-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14481","title":{"rendered":"Romesh and Tom Take Takeshi&#8217;s Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was quite sad back in April when Amazon&#8217;s <strong>Fuuuun! Takeshi&#8217;s Castle!<\/strong> reboot launched it wasn&#8217;t launched around the world simultaneously, but it soon came to light the strategy was for each territory to get their own commentary team on it and it would launch sometime during the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvzoneuk.com\/post\/takeshicastle-pvra1\">that time is August 30th<\/a> and that commentary team is Romesh Ranganathan (<strong>Weakest Link<\/strong>, <strong>A League of Their Own<\/strong>) and <s>his mum<\/s> Tom Davis (<strong>Murder in Successville<\/strong>), who worked together on <em>Judge Romesh<\/em> on Dave and have since had a podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romeshranganathan.co.uk\/podcast\/\">The Wolf and Owl podcast<\/a>, which has somehow made it to 150-odd episodes without me having any idea it even existed and am now quite annoyed about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not long to wait! The reboot looked pretty damn good from the clips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite sad back in April when Amazon&#8217;s Fuuuun! Takeshi&#8217;s Castle! reboot launched it wasn&#8217;t launched around the world simultaneously, but it soon came to light the strategy was for each territory to get their own commentary team on it and it would launch sometime during the year. Well that time is August 30th\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14481\">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-14481","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-3Lz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481","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=14481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}