{"id":15544,"date":"2026-10-14T14:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15544"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:08:54","slug":"october-30th-the-new-january-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15544","title":{"rendered":"October 30th: the new January 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow, and I expect completely accidentally, Friday October 30th is going to be an absolute monster day for formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It&#8217;s the final of <strong>Last One Laughing Halloween<\/strong> on Prime (it starts the week previous on the 23rd).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s the live on Netflix <strong>Beat Luke Littler<\/strong> event.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s the <strong>Celebrity Traitors<\/strong> final.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LOL<\/strong> will ultimately be fine, it&#8217;ll have a long tail and that&#8217;s just as well as <em>Celebrity Traitors<\/em> will be taking up a lot of the air I presume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beat Luke Littler<\/strong> is going to be absolutely fascinating. Broadcast on any other day you&#8217;d expect it to get a sampling. Unfortunately in setting the date well in advance it can&#8217;t have known <em>Celebrity Traitors<\/em> would shift from Wednesday\/Thursday to Thursday\/Friday, so now it finds itself up against the TV event of the year. How is Richard Osman going to cope with being the richardosman on <em>Beat Luke Littler<\/em> AND recording a timely reaction episode of <em>The Rest is Entertainment<\/em>? I can&#8217;t wait to find out. <a href=\"https:\/\/beatlukelittler.seetickets.com\/tour\/beat-luke-littler\">Anyway you can buy tickets<\/a>, the auditorium could be anything from extremely busy to extremely empty and there&#8217;s no real way of knowing. We will have a Show Discussion post up for it on the day, although I&#8217;d expect more chat in catch-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, and I expect completely accidentally, Friday October 30th is going to be an absolute monster day for formats. LOL will ultimately be fine, it&#8217;ll have a long tail and that&#8217;s just as well as Celebrity Traitors will be taking up a lot of the air I presume. Beat Luke Littler is going to be\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15544\">Read More: October 30th: the new January 1st &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-15544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-42I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15544","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=15544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}