{"id":15190,"date":"2025-09-07T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:19:38","slug":"show-discussion-nfl-big-game-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15190","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: NFL Big Game Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sundays, 5:30pm,
Five<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has all the makings of something that might be quite fun, extremely dire or anything in between really. Channel Five will be showing two live NFL games on Sunday nights over the next six months (or however long the season is), and wrapped around the first one will be a gameshow\/entertainment show\/whatever. Basically it’s a way to fill in the moments where the US goes to its many ad breaks they won’t be able to do in the UK. It’s all live – the game element will depend on what’s just happened in the sports action – teams compete to win trips to the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this work? Will this pique the interest of casual viewers? Will it annoy the sorts of people who would happily tune into an NFL match? Will there still be room for analysis of the game itself? At the very least Dermot O’ Leary is probably one of the best hosts they can have for what could be an extremely messy live format. Sam Quek and Osi Umenyiora are on hand as well as a celebrity guest, and comic Troy Hawke will be acting as some kind of US correspondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly there’s enough people intrigued by the prospect of this that the first one might be quite an appealing four-hour watch, but it will be really interesting to see how long they keep up the formatted aspect for, and how much it changes across the run. It’s certainly a big swing and I kind of love it for that, but it could also end up being quite a long six months for everyone involved. Five will be showing two games a night, the first one starts at 6pm and a second one on 5ACTION from 9pm but without the light entertainment surrounding it, although Big Game Night<\/em> isn’t due to finish until half nine so no idea how that will work out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us know what you think in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sundays, 5:30pm,Five This has all the makings of something that might be quite fun, extremely dire or anything in between really. Channel Five will be showing two live NFL games on Sunday nights over the next six months (or however long the season is), and wrapped around the first one will be a gameshow\/entertainment show\/whatever.\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-15190","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-3X0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","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=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}