{"id":14881,"date":"2024-10-04T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14881"},"modified":"2024-10-04T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:18:48","slug":"iiiiin-one-its-a-teasmaid-from-argos-dyer-remember-argos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14881","title":{"rendered":"“Iiiiin one, It’s a teasmaid from Argos. D’yer remember Argos?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TV Zone reporting Bullseye<\/strong> returning<\/a> with Freddie Flintoff at the helm with a one-off Christmas special, but they’re never really one-off specials are they? I kind of wish they’d just leave it alone, it’s cult status derived almost entirely from its original point in history and people involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let’s go wild, darts is extremely popular, why shouldn’t it work as a show on its own merits in 2024? Whenever they’ve bought it back for Gameshow Marathon<\/strong> or Epic Gameshow<\/strong> (and, indeed Challenge TV with Dave Spikey) they’ve stuck pretty rigidly to the points and prize structures of the 1980s (although see Daniel Hurst in the comments). As a game played for points, Bullseye ‘works’ fine. Are people really going to be excited by people answering a question for about \u00a334 in 2024 for a show standing on its own merits? It feels unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone is going “but look… Luke Littler!” and yes, Luke Littler. But unless they’ve changed the format so it’s a quizzing celebrity paired up with a famous darts player Big Break<\/strong> style, he’ll only be on for two minutes throwing for charity (possibly winning a whopping \u00a3600+), and then so what really? But what if they do change the format up so it’s a quizzer and a professional? Well that’s already been done when it was used for Gameshow Marathon<\/em>, and the professionals just hit the Bullseye all the time anyway so it wasn’t actually that much fun. Anyway, Sky’s One Hundred and Eighty<\/strong><\/a> was a perfectly serviceable quiz darts format that did exactly this, and was also hosted by Flintoff anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How are you going to get an hour out of it? Epic Gameshow played round one twice and had an endgame that lasted 15-20 minutes. Fine, but it never hit the same as 101 or more in six darts, let’s have a look at what you could have won, did it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basically you’d need to change everything to make it worthwhile in 2024, and if you’ve changed everything then you’ve just got a new show but with a cartoon bull that can wander across the screen occasionally. Is that what people want? I guess we’ll be finding out soon enough. Besides, it should be Peter Kay for Bullseye<\/em>, Freddie Flintoff ought to be rebooting The Indoor League<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They” should just do a Bullseye FAST Channel, but that’d probably sink Challenge, so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edit:<\/strong> Apply if you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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