{"id":1762,"date":"2010-08-02T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2010-08-02T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:06:28","slug":"the-figures-and-the-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"The Figures and The Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry it&#8217;s been a bit slow lately, but I&#8217;m not doing a Board of Excitement when there&#8217;s so little to get excited about (although there will be a show discussion post for <strong>NEW! Who Wants to be a Millionaire<\/strong> tomorrow). Also (if you don&#8217;t follow me on Twitter), I was up in Nottingham playing poker badly\u00a0at the wonderous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dusktilldawnpoker.com\/\">Dusk Till Dawn<\/a>\u00a0for the first time pretty much all day yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been alerted to the fact that <strong>Letters and Numbers<\/strong> has premiered on SBS in Australia and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/shows\/lettersandnumbers\/watchonline\/page\/i\/1\/h\/Watch-Online\/\">you should be able to watch it online<\/a>\u00a0certainly if you live in Australia and I&#8217;ve just watched it from the UK. It is, of course, the new Australian version of the ever popular\u00a0<strong>Des Chiffres et Des Lettres <\/strong>although production wise having more in common with <strong>Countdown<\/strong> than its french father.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly the set is very similar, although they&#8217;ve got the <strong>University Challenge<\/strong>-esque academic lava lamp thing going on in the background behind the contestants which is quite subtle and cool. There&#8217;s no celeb in Dictionary Corner, although their very own Susie Dent David Astle gets to do an origins of words segment, and there&#8217;s a viewer teaser to go into each of the breaks. The\u00a0format is\u00a0letters, letters, numbers, letters, letters, numbers, letters, numbers, computer generated Conundrum which I quite like and fits inside half an hour. The clock music is rather poor compared to our legendary one.<\/p>\n<p>Basically it&#8217;s alright if you like that kind of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry it&#8217;s been a bit slow lately, but I&#8217;m not doing a Board of Excitement when there&#8217;s so little to get excited about (although there will be a show discussion post for NEW! Who Wants to be a Millionaire tomorrow). Also (if you don&#8217;t follow me on Twitter), I was up in Nottingham playing poker\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1762\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","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-sq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","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=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}