{"id":3825,"date":"2011-06-12T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:52:32","slug":"board-of-excitement-12th-18th-june-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 12th-18th June 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Splatalot <\/strong>&#8211; Dick and Dom&#8217;s Kid&#8217;s <em>Total Wipeout<\/em>. There&#8217;s actually a few episodes up on Youtube of the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vFyUAfENdKU\">Canadian version<\/a>, it&#8217;s actually a co-production from channels in the UK, Canada and Australia, of which CBBC is one of them. What is most striking about the Canadian version is how similar it is to <strong>Wipeout<\/strong> in terms of styling, not just in the fact it&#8217;s two commentators standing in front of a blue screen but in it&#8217;s commentary rhythm and direction as well. To make it\u00a0a bit different to <em>Wipeout<\/em>, there\u00a0is a rotating regular cast of defenders to chuck stuff at the kids whilst acting comically. The two daily episodes don&#8217;t appear to be repeats of each other.\u00a0(7:45am, 4:30pm, Weekdays, CBBC Channel)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amazing Race Australia <\/strong>&#8211; Last week&#8217;s was the weakest episode so far. Still, though. (Monday, Seven Network)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fort Boyard 2010 <\/strong>&#8211; This week at the non-comedy time of 8pm bang on. (8pm, Monday, TV5 Monde)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Odd One In <\/strong>&#8211; Bradley Walsh returns with the show no-one was expecting to get a recommission. (7:15pm, Saturday, ITV1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Penn and Teller&#8217;s Fool Us<\/strong> &#8211; Loved the pilot so looking forward to this a lot. Magicians perform in front of Penn and Teller, and if Penn and Teller can&#8217;t work out how it&#8217;s done, they pay them to go to Vegas and open their act. (8pm, Saturday, ITV1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Marriage Ref<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s Judge the Grudge from <em>The Big Breakfast <\/em>applied to married couples, basically. Dermot O&#8217; Leary makes the decisions aided and abetted by three celebrities. (9pm, Saturday, ITV1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bother Series of Poker<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=2807\">IT&#8217;S THE GRAND FINAL!<\/a> Look out for details of the one-off HORSE Hilarity afterwards, to be played July 3rd, with $100 added to the prizepool. You can buy in now &#8211; Full Tilt, $20 + $2, T ID #239881938 Password: onlyconnect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right then: Splatalot &#8211; Dick and Dom&#8217;s Kid&#8217;s Total Wipeout. There&#8217;s actually a few episodes up on Youtube of the Canadian version, it&#8217;s actually a co-production from channels in the UK, Canada and Australia, of which CBBC is one of them. What is most striking about the Canadian version is how similar it is to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3825\">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-3825","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-ZH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","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=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}