{"id":4585,"date":"2011-10-18T17:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2011-10-18T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:56:05","slug":"power-of-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4585","title":{"rendered":"Power of Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well tonight at 8pm is the second episode of <strong>High Stakes<\/strong> with Jeremy Kyle (or if you prefer it&#8217;s the final episode of <strong>Minute To Win It<\/strong> on ITV2), but <em>HS<\/em> certainly isn&#8217;t the first show to offer gambles that nobody is ever going to take, but probably the biggest example of this was CBS&#8217; worldwide non-hit (pulled after two episodes in several countries) <strong>The Power of 10<\/strong> with Drew Carey. <em>TPoT<\/em> is a state-of-the-nation predicting game, and after battling an opponent over a number of questions you start earning money,\u00a0multiplying by &#8220;the power of ten&#8221; (they do in fact just mean &#8220;ten&#8221;) each time you are right up to a whopping $10m.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wG65S9nUfXk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been of the opinion that offering gambles nobody in their right mind is going to take is poor formatting.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of things which might not work, <strong>Celebrity The Chase<\/strong> begins 6pm on Saturday 29th October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well tonight at 8pm is the second episode of High Stakes with Jeremy Kyle (or if you prefer it&#8217;s the final episode of Minute To Win It on ITV2), but HS certainly isn&#8217;t the first show to offer gambles that nobody is ever going to take, but probably the biggest example of this was CBS&#8217;\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4585\">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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-thing-found-on-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1bX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","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=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}