{"id":268,"date":"2010-01-10T20:05:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T20:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-01-10T23:49:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:49:44","slug":"board-of-not-much-excitement-10-16th-jan-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Board of Not Much Excitement 10-16th Jan 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK producers, you can stop F5-ing now, it&#8217;s finally time to take a look at the pick of the week. And to be honest, it&#8217;s rather slim pickings this week. Don&#8217;t forget, this is an entirely subjective view of what I&#8217;m most interested in watching from the gameshow world this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Only Connect <\/strong>(Monday, BBC4, 8:30pm) series opener got great viewing figures last week despite University Challenge overrunning and nobody really knowing it was on. This week, our cleverly chosen diametrically opposed types as Polymaths vs Strategists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Krypton Factor <\/strong>(Tuesday, ITV1, 7:30pm) which rather upsettingly just about gets away with dropping the intelligence test. Note: please don&#8217;t take this as positive reinforcement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Schlag den Raab<\/strong> (Saturday, ProSieben, 7:15pm) &#8211; a late edit, I&#8217;ve just discovered the next one is on Saturday, for \u20ac1.5m. Fingers crossed for naughty streaming, everybody.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rather brilliantly, that appears to be pretty much it. <strong>Popstar to Operastar<\/strong> which begins on Friday night on ITV1 (9pm) is on if you like that sort of thing, I&#8217;ll probably pass to be honest. But if they called it <em>Popestar to Operastar<\/em>, featuring people who failed to become Pope then I might be bought. Winningly, after last week&#8217;s Awards Show and despite series three being in the can, BBC1 decide to repeat series two of <strong>Total Wipeout<\/strong> from next Saturday. And I&#8217;ve not mentioned <strong>So You Think You Can Dance?<\/strong> on here yet which I watched the first bit of last Saturday and thought was OK but not really my sort of thing. On Wednesday at 11:30pm\u00a0Channel 4 are showing <strong>Kaun Banega Crorepati <\/strong>aka <em>Who Wants to be a Millionaire? India Edition <\/em>to tie in with their broadcast of not-as-feelgood-as-the-posters-would-have-had-you-believe <em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to watch <strong>Take Me Out<\/strong>, but confidently predict it isn&#8217;t as good as <strong>Man O Man<\/strong> with Chris Tarrant. I will watch a recording some time this week.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all the weather!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finished the Bother&#8217;s Bar <em>Deal or No Deal<\/em> World Tour on the Specials board this evening also.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0 future thrills, <strong>Relic<\/strong> (the show <em>Codex<\/em> really probably should have been) with kids solving mysteries in the British Museum to avoid being incarcerated forever, starts on 21st January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK producers, you can stop F5-ing now, it&#8217;s finally time to take a look at the pick of the week. And to be honest, it&#8217;s rather slim pickings this week. 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