{"id":4388,"date":"2011-09-25T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T08:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2011-09-25T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T08:17:05","slug":"board-of-excitement-25th-september-2nd-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 25th September &#8211; 2nd October 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMG! It&#8217;s practically Christmas!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong> &#8211; A quick shoutout as it gave away its fourth jackpot last week, and epic episodes have been promised for this week as well. (4:15pm Sunday, 4pm weekdays)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amazing Race<\/strong> &#8211; I say excitement, this will probably be a disappointment. It&#8217;s the show&#8217;s tenth year! A new thing is the Hazard, a penalty given to a team already in last place through a starting line challenge, because penalizing the team that&#8217;s furthest behind ALWAYS makes for a tense and exciting finish. (Sunday, CBS)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Shredder<\/strong> &#8211; I was unsuccessful in get getting a ticket to this, so if you&#8217;re going to see this pilot made at BBC TV Centre on Monday, do tell us about it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only Connect<\/strong> &#8211; Rowers vs Linguists. Practically everybody I&#8217;m following on Twitter has now been a contestant on this. (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Minute to Win It<\/strong> (8pm, Tuesday, ITV2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ton of Cash<\/strong> &#8211; New to the Board of Excitement, although I felt the mid-season twists (splitting the money for three teams, voting out a loser) lost quite a lot of the interest and charm the first five episodes had built up. Still, it looks like it&#8217;s returning to something closer to the old format this week, so we&#8217;ll see. (Wednesday although Friday online, VH1 in the US)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bundesvision Song Contest 2011 <\/strong>&#8211; There&#8217;s no <em>Schlag den Star<\/em> this week, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s no Stefan Raab. (7:15pm BST, Thursday, ProSieben)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strictly Come Dancing<\/strong> &#8211; The first weekend of the proper dancing. (9pm Friday and 6pm Saturday, BBC1).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG! It&#8217;s practically Christmas! Deal or No Deal &#8211; A quick shoutout as it gave away its fourth jackpot last week, and epic episodes have been promised for this week as well. (4:15pm Sunday, 4pm weekdays) The Amazing Race &#8211; I say excitement, this will probably be a disappointment. It&#8217;s the show&#8217;s tenth year! A\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4388\">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-4388","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-18M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","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=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}