{"id":15451,"date":"2026-07-11T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:05:13","slug":"the-box-on-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15451","title":{"rendered":"The Box on the box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight at 8:35pm before the England vs Norway match they&#8217;re showing a ten-minute preview of upcoming Saturday night reality show <strong>The Box<\/strong> with Gary Lineker, to give everyone a chance to write it off early presumably. <em>Boxsen<\/em> is in fact a Norwegian format so that is some fun synergy they&#8217;re probably not going to mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve seen a bit of <em>Boxsen<\/em> and it&#8217;s&#8230; fine &#8211; celebs doing a variety of physical and mental tasks, the idea being they&#8217;ve got to figure out what needs doing and quickly get on with it, sometimes the situations they find themselves in are surprising (on top of a tower! In the middle of an ice hockey game!). Like every new Next Big Thing show I struggle to see it being the next big thing &#8211; it&#8217;s had some success in other Scandinavian countries but done rather less well in Benelux countries I understand. What NTA Best Host Gary Lineker is going to bring to proceedings I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edit:<\/strong> Also a repeat before France vs Spain coverage on Tuesday just before 7pm. About an hour before the game actually starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at 8:35pm before the England vs Norway match they&#8217;re showing a ten-minute preview of upcoming Saturday night reality show The Box with Gary Lineker, to give everyone a chance to write it off early presumably. Boxsen is in fact a Norwegian format so that is some fun synergy they&#8217;re probably not going to mention.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15451\">Read More: The Box on the box &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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15451","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-41d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451","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=15451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}