{"id":15195,"date":"2025-09-12T00:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15195"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:35:31","slug":"jack-of-deadly-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15195","title":{"rendered":"Jack of Deadly Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh this is an interesting thing to have land on your doorstep (Discord) on a Thursday evening. Iain Lee has uploaded the pilot for a UK version of <strong>You Don&#8217;t Know Jack<\/strong> and it&#8217;s extremely interesting &#8211; it was made before the US one went out and it&#8217;s much closer to the computer game. But is it more successful?<\/p>\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\/Ny2nOctM3Lc?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>&#8220;Not sure&#8221; is my answer to be honest, there&#8217;s a lot here that doesn&#8217;t quite work &#8211; evidently half the questions if the scores jumping about were anything to go by. Early 2000s Iain Lee was extremely punchable. The flow isn&#8217;t quite there, the humour is very of it&#8217;s time i.e. isn&#8217;t the celebrity a bit ugly which I don&#8217;t remember the games really going into, and the answer explanations don&#8217;t feel very convincing, probably because this was probably designed for Friday nights and they&#8217;d expect lots of &#8220;isn&#8217;t the celebrity a bit ugly&#8221;. The players either didn&#8217;t understand the Jack Attack or were completely useless. But if you want the computer game in TV form, well it hits a lot of the feature points, but I&#8217;m not sure this would have been a great TV show. still, an early writing credit for Victoria Coren which I&#8217;m sure she remembers fondly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The timeline is quite interesting, YDKJ UK came out in 1997 (it&#8217;s interesting seeing who did the writing on that, people like Mel and Sue, who aren&#8217;t involved in this), Princess Productions piloted this in 2001 but even though it didn&#8217;t make it to air they evidently liked it enough to take the same sort of high-culture-meets-pop-culture ideas that underpinned it but without the license and came up with <strong>The Deadly Knowledge Show<\/strong> (which I believe somehow came under the schools\/education remit) in 2005 with Dave Berry. I remember quite liking it at the time, although that was twenty years ago now. It&#8217;s got Not-Screw-Your-Neighbour and Not-Dis-Or-Dat, jokes which may or may not land after some questions, although they haven&#8217;t quite merged both cultures into questions so much as gone &#8220;here&#8217;s a reference, now here&#8217;s a sort of connected reference&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 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\/sAubgC2-coI?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>In other news I&#8217;m off to see <em>The Long Walk<\/em> at the cinema tomorrow (which is when it comes out), the film of the Stephen King novella based on a deadly dystopian endurance event, likely to be The Sort Of Thing we&#8217;ll enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh this is an interesting thing to have land on your doorstep (Discord) on a Thursday evening. Iain Lee has uploaded the pilot for a UK version of You Don&#8217;t Know Jack and it&#8217;s extremely interesting &#8211; it was made before the US one went out and it&#8217;s much closer to the computer game. But\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15195\">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-15195","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-3X5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195","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=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}