{"id":14627,"date":"2023-12-15T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14627"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:49:23","slug":"a-question-of-morte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14627","title":{"rendered":"A Question of Morte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/breaking-bbc-axes-question-sport-31682483\">The Mirror reporting that TV institution<\/a>, well, a show that has been on for fifty years anyway <strong>A Question of Sport<\/strong> has been axed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Paddy\/Ugo\/Samantha refresh, one of several to try and appeal to younger audiences throughout the years, failed to catch fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not a sports sort of person, I can&#8217;t say <strong>AQoS<\/strong> is something I ever really loved, but I appreciated its wide variety of rounds and ideas, some more successful than others, frequently, er, inspired by more <s>successful<\/s> relevant formats, mainly I&#8217;m sad they never found an arrangement of the theme tune better than the one they had in the eighties (and some of them since have been absolutely turgid).<\/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\/3QI2uMty9iE?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>The other defining thing about <em>A Question of Sport<\/em>, most shows increase the stakes as they progress, A Question of Sport gave out about 70% of its points in the first round. Incredible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 24 years, is Sue Barker the longest running female host of a quiz?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About a decade ago you couldn&#8217;t watch A Question of Sport on iPlayer. Did anyone get to the bottom of why that was?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Question of A Question of Sport<\/em>, there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mirror reporting that TV institution, well, a show that has been on for fifty years anyway A Question of Sport has been axed. The Paddy\/Ugo\/Samantha refresh, one of several to try and appeal to younger audiences throughout the years, failed to catch fire. 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