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<\/a>Something came up yesterday, an advert for contestants for what is going to be The Floor<\/strong> – and probably about time as well – I’m 95% confident that it’s got ITV written all over it, but \u00a350,000 feels like a crap prize for an arc-ed Saturday night show on the same channel and night as Limitless Win<\/strong>, The 1% Club<\/strong> and Millionaire<\/strong> (albeit on Sunday). Possibly it’s destined for 99 To Beat<\/strong>‘s slot but the show feels more premium than that. So I’m also pondering – could Sky be using it as something to lead into their planned domestic version of Saturday Night Live<\/em>? Are we looking at Rob Beckett’s The Floor on Sky Max and NowTV? Or are ITV just being a bit cheap. We’ll find out in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edit:<\/strong> Gary Lineker revealed as the host of ITV’s upcoming import The Box<\/strong> which feels like… a choice. Not least because I was under the impression that it was mainly done in voiceover. Anyway I’ve seen a sizzle reel and it looks quite fun, celebrities are transported in striking yellow boxes, are released and have to figure out what the challenge is and then get on with it (could be the middle of an ice hockey match, could be 10m above the sea, that sort of thing), although they’re already suggesting it’s “like I’m a Celebrity<\/strong> meets SAS: Who Dares Wins<\/strong>” and anything that compares itself to I’m a Celeb<\/em> has invariably just come across as a crap version of I’m a Celeb<\/em>, so be careful. Lineker had already presented two series of Sitting On A Fortune<\/strong> for ITV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are a lot of interesting shows new and returning in August, so here’s a kind of signpost as to where you can put some thoughts down. Don’t forget the Bother’s Bar Cinematic Universe is bigger than the website which is a bit of a loss-leader these days, more-up-to-the-second discussions can be found on the\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-15143","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-3Wf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143","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=15143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}