{"id":2330,"date":"2010-10-17T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2010-10-17T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T15:17:11","slug":"board-of-excitement-17th-october-23rd-october-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2330","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 17th October &#8211; 23rd October 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just help yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Cube <\/strong>(7pm, Sunday, ITV1): will never be the same again since Harry Hill revealed THE TRUTH about The Body.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The X Factor <\/strong>(8pm, Sunday, ITV1, also 7:45pm, Saturday, ITV1): I think the competition is actually much wider open this year than it has been for a while, with four or five people who stand a chance. But those 2.5hr Saturday nights feel properly lengthy, so thank goodness with just twelve acts left next week it&#8217;s only going to be on for two-and-a-quarter hours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only Connect <\/strong>(8:30pm, Monday, BBC4): Mountain Men vs In-laws. Only one more first round match to go after this one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Apprentice <\/strong>(9pm, Wednesday, BBC1): What struck me most about the Book-eeze is that it would become very irritating very quickly to have to keep taking the book out and turning the pages over. I&#8217;m backing either Jamie or Stella to win at this early stage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Challenge: Cutthroat<\/strong>\u00a0(Wednesday, MTV US): Genuine tragedy this week as host TJ Lavin, also a pro BMX-rider, had an accident this week putting him into a coma. When I first watched him, I thought he was a bit of a charisma vacuum but actually I think this is unfair, he&#8217;s quite entertainingly dry and I like the way he sticks up for contestants who don&#8217;t deserve their fate. Last week featured a tough challenge involving having the team suspended upside down by their legs and having to transfer colour coded beer steins, which most teams did entertainingly badly at.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Schlag den Raab <\/strong>(7:15pm UK\/8:15 Germany, Saturday, ProSieben\/The Internet): This has come round very quickly. Having come up with two jokey ideas\u00a0for the last two which seemed to have then turned up in one form or another, I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing if it happens for a third time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anything else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just help yourself&#8230; The Cube (7pm, Sunday, ITV1): will never be the same again since Harry Hill revealed THE TRUTH about The Body. The X Factor (8pm, Sunday, ITV1, also 7:45pm, Saturday, ITV1): I think the competition is actually much wider open this year than it has been for a while, with four or five\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2330\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-excitement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-BA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","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=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}