{"id":15134,"date":"2025-07-16T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15134"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:24:49","slug":"new-thrills-july-2025-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15134","title":{"rendered":"New Thrills! July 2025 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ITV have announced <strong>Millionaire Hot Seat<\/strong> (alongside 19 new episodes of <em>Millionaire<\/em>), the fast paced &#8216;highly tactical&#8217; version of the format with the stupid non-money tree money tree. It began in Italy and then sold to a handful of places, most notably Australia where it ran as a daily show for 2,500+ episodes before <strong>The Chase<\/strong> killed it. It didn&#8217;t last that long anywhere else. Whether or not you like it seems to depend on whether you can see past the obvious contrivances, it&#8217;s probably going in one of the 7:30pm slots on ITV next year. It is better than other <em>Millionaire<\/em> spin-offs <strong>Fastest Finger First<\/strong> and <strong>50:50<\/strong>, to be fair.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neil Patrick Harris&#8217; <strong>What&#8217;s In The Box?<\/strong> recorded for Netflix last weekend and reports we&#8217;ve read make it sound legen&#8230;wait for it&#8230;darily poor! As we undertand it it&#8217;s an arc-ed gameshow, couples answer questions to pick spaces off a board, some of which describe a prize in a box and if you uncover enough of them you get what&#8217;s in the box, but some spaces are bad and can mean losing prizes to others or even going home. Quote: &#8220;Not a total disaster, but very little to commend it other than the grandiose set and prizes. If the prizes hadn&#8217;t been sponsored I think there&#8217;s a chance they might can it rather than broadcast it to save the prize budget and write the whole lot off as a loss.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In happier Netflix news, they&#8217;ve announced US and European versions of Bother&#8217;s Bar favourite <strong>Physical 100<\/strong>, one of the shining lights of the South Korean Authority Voice Sets Tasks genre although they promised <strong>Physical 100: Asia<\/strong> 18 months ago and we&#8217;ve not heard anything about it since (Q4 this year apparently).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And now Japan&#8217;s getting in on the act with <strong>Final Draft<\/strong> which appears to be&#8230; basically <strong>Physical 100<\/strong> but with retired sportspeople who may or may not have retired on their own terms, battling it out for 30m Yen. That&#8217;s coming August 12th, so not long to wait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/Nn77lsLWBOo?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><strong>Edit:<\/strong> <strong>Destination X<\/strong> going out Wednesdays and Thursdays from 30th July (there was an interview with Rob Brydon in The Telegraph last week that gave this date away, but now it&#8217;s confi&#8230; sorry, CONFIRMED), a similar schedule to this year&#8217;s other big will it\/won&#8217;t it show &#8220;The&#8221;<strong> Genius Game<\/strong>. But hold! Wasn&#8217;t <strong>The Fortune Hotel<\/strong> set for Wednesday\/Thursday nights as well? A clash of the reality format titans in store! It&#8217;s lucky nobody watches linear TV any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit: Destination X going out Wednesdays and Thursdays from 30th July (there was an interview with Rob Brydon in The Telegraph last week that gave this date away, but now it&#8217;s confi&#8230; sorry, CONFIRMED), a similar schedule to this year&#8217;s other big will it\/won&#8217;t it show &#8220;The&#8221; Genius Game. But hold! Wasn&#8217;t The Fortune Hotel\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15134\">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-15134","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-3W6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134","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=15134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}