{"id":15094,"date":"2025-05-10T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15094"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:34:09","slug":"destination-x-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15094","title":{"rendered":"Destination X Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NBC broadcast a 20-minute preview for <strong>Destination X<\/strong> last week and recently ungeoblocked the Youtube version. This might be worth having a look at as it&#8217;s a similar UK\/US production model to <strong>The Traitors<\/strong>, so even if not exactly the same it&#8217;s likely that many of the challenges and locations overlap. What we&#8217;re hoping does not overlap though is the volume of the music, apparently set to drown out most of the talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\/3_pnRzV_zJ4?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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14421\">I don&#8217;t love <strong>(Bestemming) Destination X<\/strong><\/a>, or at least I&#8217;m not as enamoured with it as apparently many channels were with it, where it&#8217;s been anything from a complete flop to a decided non-hit. There will have been about 18 months between the first series coming out and this being made so there will have been opportunities to improve on it somewhat &#8211; this preview is certainly a more energetic show than the original and *seems* to be playing down the &#8220;is this hint real or not?&#8221; idea the show seemed to sell itself with (only to play itself down a bit after the initial episode) &#8211; although the <em>Sound of Music<\/em> allusions at the end is so on the nose it&#8217;s clearly a fake hint, so we&#8217;ll see. Are Americans going to care enough to watch a show that&#8217;s basically a European geography quiz? That&#8217;s basically the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can&#8217;t work out when the BBC is going to play our version, there feel like few windows available where it won&#8217;t clash with other, bigger things in the space. I accept that Rob Brydon is a different and interesting choice that ought to pique interest though, whether there&#8217;s enough in our version of the format for him to work with remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC broadcast a 20-minute preview for Destination X last week and recently ungeoblocked the Youtube version. This might be worth having a look at as it&#8217;s a similar UK\/US production model to The Traitors, so even if not exactly the same it&#8217;s likely that many of the challenges and locations overlap. 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