{"id":3068,"date":"2011-02-12T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2011-02-13T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T10:42:40","slug":"show-discussion-ant-and-decs-push-the-button-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3068","title":{"rendered":"Show discussion: Ant and Dec&#8217;s Push the Button Series 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3069\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3069\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3069\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/adbutton1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"220,124\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"adbutton1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/adbutton1.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3069\" title=\"adbutton1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/adbutton1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>7:20pm, ITV1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re back and they&#8217;re live and they&#8217;re hoping to push all of your buttons. Two families try and hold on to \u00a3100,000 in daft games of skill, knowledge and nerve whilst Ant and Dec try not to laugh too hard at their failures. This second series apparently has home viewer element, Ant vs Dec, a celebrity challenge (place your bets as to which jungle celebrity it will be) and more, presumably. So it&#8217;s basically now <strong>Saturday Night Takeaway<\/strong> mk three then, but <em>SNT<\/em> was fun and I thought the first series of this had some quite good games in it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m out this evening and will watch when I get back. You, however, are free to comment as you see fit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit: <\/strong>Right, back now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When it comes to live, Ant and Dec are the best in the business but with lots going on, the direction was a bit sloppy in places I thought, not helped by the pair seemingly not knowing where they should be all the time.<\/li>\n<li>As anyone who has watched <strong>Schlag den Raab<\/strong> will tell you, asking people to guess things from culture given clues can be a lengthy experience unless you make things very obvious and so whilst the <strong>Catchphrase<\/strong> inspired Top of the Props was quite a fun idea it was probably always going to go to time. And whose idea was it to have a round which would leave people on \u00a382,000? Base five people, base five!<\/li>\n<li>I have no problems with Spot the Bald or the <strong>Dancing on Ice<\/strong> challenge, although along with The Accumulator I miss the time trial aspect &#8211; there&#8217;s not really all that much pushing the button to stop countdowns in <strong>Push the Button<\/strong> these days.<\/li>\n<li>The People vs DAVE was a bit of a damp squib. It lacked energy despite the big prizes being given away, and was it me or did the yellow look like light green? This didn&#8217;t seem to happen later on.<\/li>\n<li>The Accumulator does away with the pesky cash countdown idea and allows the families to gamble the money they have left on three different questions &#8211; what the designated Happy Hundred section of the audience think about something, whether a celebrity can do something (footballer Alan Shearer in this case which was nicely unexpected), and a mini-Ant vs Dec challenge, with up to \u00a35,000, up to \u00a310k and as much as you like being the betting limits. Very Final Jeopardy. On the one hand this works decently well and evidently to time, on the other I miss the fraught final games of the previous series.<\/li>\n<li>With cleverer betting it could have finished with a tie last night. What would have happened then?<\/li>\n<li>Members of the Happy Hundred tried to guess before the show what the winning total would be, closest wins \u00a35,000. Meh.<\/li>\n<li>DAVE has had a facelift, and now just one member of the family has to remember the sequences making it much harder &#8211; 10% of the prize fund for three notes, 25% for five, 50% for seven and all of it for nine. Unusually but in a good way I think for this sort of show\u00a0this is an old school bonus game, the penalty for getting it wrong isn&#8217;t to lose everything it&#8217;s just that your run stops right there and then.<\/li>\n<li>Evidently they need to toughen up DAVE&#8217;s buttons, what the guy did seemed completely reasonable so goodness knows how it read it as something else.<\/li>\n<li>The winners get to stay on and the four families ready to take part in next week&#8217;s episode are shown on webcam, and one of them is apparently randomly selected to take part in the next episode (there was a bit of confusion here as two feeds lit up when Dec pushed the button and then one darkened. Good stuff.) I wonder if there is any mileage in giving these waiting families some sort of role in the main show.<\/li>\n<li>The pacing was fine. they fit quite a lot into that 75 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>As it is they&#8217;ve got good game ideas but there&#8217;s still something missing from the overall package. Regrettably I can&#8217;t put my finger on what exactly that is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7:20pm, ITV1 They&#8217;re back and they&#8217;re live and they&#8217;re hoping to push all of your buttons. Two families try and hold on to \u00a3100,000 in daft games of skill, knowledge and nerve whilst Ant and Dec try not to laugh too hard at their failures. 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