{"id":14738,"date":"2024-05-06T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14738"},"modified":"2024-05-07T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T08:10:52","slug":"board-of-excitement-early-to-mid-may-2024-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14738","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement &#8211; Early-to-Mid May 2024 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are quite a lot of things happening across the next fortnight, so to help you keep track here&#8217;s a list of new things that are happening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Finish Line<\/strong> (Weekdays 4:30pm, BBC1) &#8211; new series of the kinetic quiz. Kinetiquiz. I hope there&#8217;s a bit more dopamine this time around. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14524\">We discussed Series 1 here, we&#8217;re not going to do a new post for it.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Celeb Beat the Chasers<\/strong> (Monday-Thursday, 9pm, ITV1) &#8211; New episodes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Eurovision Song Contest<\/strong> (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 8pm, BBC1) &#8211; if international affairs suggest this might be a controversial Eurovision, just wait until everyone sees Olly&#8217;s staging, if the shots are anything to go by.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Double the Money<\/strong> (Thursday, 8pm, C4) &#8211; New Sue Perkins entrepreneurial gameshow format encouraging side-hustles, everyone starts with seed money of \u00a3250, they have to double and then keep redoubling it within time limits to stay in the game, using a different method each round. The last team standing presumably wins some money.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Celebrity Popmaster TV<\/strong> (Monday and Tuesday, 9pm, More 4) &#8211; I don&#8217;t know if Monday and Tuesday are the plans going forward (they&#8217;re also both repeated on More 4 at 6:55pm on Friday if streaming is a problem for you). A whole week of it felt a bit much last year, so it&#8217;s probably for the best. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14460\">We discussed Series 1 here, we&#8217;re not going to do a new post for the new series<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Fortune Hotel<\/strong> (Monday-Thursday, 9pm, ITV1) &#8211; Stephen Mangan encourages ten couples to play big money Find The Lady in a hot beachy part of the world to win \u00a3250,000. First ep goes on until 22:10 displacing the news, get over yourself frankly Mangan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The 8 Show<\/strong> (17th May, Netflix) &#8211; new entry in our favourite GAMESHOW OF DEATH K-dramas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Also more <strong>Taskmaster<\/strong> is being added to Netflix on Thursday, which I suspect is better news for our international readers than anyone who can just get All 4 or whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are quite a lot of things happening across the next fortnight, so to help you keep track here&#8217;s a list of new things that are happening: Also more Taskmaster is being added to Netflix on Thursday, which I suspect is better news for our international readers than anyone who can just get All 4\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14738\">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-14738","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-3PI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738","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=14738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}