{"id":15139,"date":"2025-07-29T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:08:08","slug":"show-discussion-destination-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15139","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Destination X"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wednesday and Thursdays, 9pm,
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I mean I think I’ve made my opinions on Destination X<\/strong> as a format perfectly clear by now (i.e. it’s OK but not worthy of the massive hype – and price – it’s been afforded<\/a>), ultimately its fundamental mystery is not that interesting and it can’t really use its location as a player as that would give the game away so you’re kind of left with a lot of generic challenges of varying quality that could be done anywhere but different to the original is that evidently we’ve got Rob Brydon on location administering tasks rather than at a location and communicating via screen. Whether this is enough of a secret sauce to make its fortunes differ from its many international versions remains to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hey! It’s not about what I think, let us know what you thought in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday and Thursdays, 9pm,BBC1 and iPlayer I mean I think I’ve made my opinions on Destination X as a format perfectly clear by now (i.e. it’s OK but not worthy of the massive hype – and price – it’s been afforded), ultimately its fundamental mystery is not that interesting and it can’t really use its\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":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Wb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139","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=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}