{"id":15115,"date":"2025-06-21T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2025-06-21T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:26:56","slug":"show-discussion-celebrity-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15115","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Celebrity Puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weeknights, 7pm,
Channel 5<\/strong>

First there was Puzzling<\/strong> with Lucy Worsley<\/a> and nobody really watched it and now a few years later there is Celebrity Puzzling<\/strong> with Jeremy Vine, which appears to be revamped to the point where the only thing in common with the original seems to be one of the words in the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh and puzzles of course, it looks from the adverts like this is less “multiplying the numbers of bricks in two igloos” and more Jeremy Vine’s House of Games<\/em>, more puzzles with cultural references (music, films, TV shows etc), seemingly<\/em> fewer maths and IQ-style questions and of course, the contestants are celebrities – Carol Vorderman and Face of Five Sally Lindsay are team captains, each joined by a different celeb every night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might be quite a canny change, ROHoG<\/strong> regularly pulls in a million plus at 6pm, Five has been overnighting 300-500k at 7pm lately depending on what’s on, although launching in quite a hot week is a pity and it’s fair to suggest Vine doesn’t have quite the same comedy appeal as Osman. It almost feels like the sort of thing Five should have held back to piggyback the return of Quizzy Mondays, as it is there’s not much like it on Five as it stands so whether people would think to tune into it I don’t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better than the original? A worthwhile reboot? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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