{"id":14936,"date":"2024-12-14T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14936"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T15:49:49","slug":"commitment-to-the-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14936","title":{"rendered":"Commitment to the bit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To be clear I don’t think Pictionary<\/strong> is a necessary commission, although it’s nice to have a new 30 minute format for the first time in years and years, if the US one is anything to go by<\/a> it’s a particularly uncrucial watch. But we will commend Mel Giedroyc’s commitment to the bit here, an old school #hostholdingaquestioncard promo shot (with extra points for pointing and facial expression) for an old-school kind of show.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Great stuff. Mel’s done this sort of thing before of course, with Draw It!<\/strong> on Channel 4 about a decade ago, it’s unlikely to be as piss-takey as Win, Lose or Draw<\/strong> in its pomp. Still though, two Christmas episodes on 23rd and 26th December, with the series starting at 2:30pm on January 6th and perhaps interestingly it will have five minutes longer to fill than the US show (after Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals<\/strong> at 2pm which is the sound of ITV giving up, and new 18-month-old Lingo<\/strong> going out at 4pm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be clear I don’t think Pictionary is a necessary commission, although it’s nice to have a new 30 minute format for the first time in years and years, if the US one is anything to go by it’s a particularly uncrucial watch. But we will commend Mel Giedroyc’s commitment to the bit here, an\u2026 Read More »<\/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-14936","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-3SU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14936","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=14936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}