{"id":4610,"date":"2011-10-25T13:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T12:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2011-10-25T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:40:42","slug":"iiiiiiiin-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4610","title":{"rendered":"Iiiiiiiin one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the big thing going around Twitter is the (actually pretty old) news that The Gurin Company has bought the rights to Sunday afternoon favourite <strong>Bullseye<\/strong>, and together with one of the original creators\u00a0Andrew Wood they&#8217;ve created a million dollar version of it (involving having the players score 401 in 9 darts which while technically possible\u00a0was never actually managed by any Bronze Bully professionals in the show&#8217;s lengthy run) and it&#8217;s guaranteed to be on American telly and, and, and&#8230;<\/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\/IVtuLcB7JKY?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>Here&#8217;s the reality: it&#8217;s a nice story but not only is there not much room in the US market for a darts quiz, I&#8217;m highly doubtful anyone in the US is actively\u00a0<em>looking<\/em> for\u00a0a darts quiz. If it actually makes it to air on a major network, I&#8217;ll eat my hat. On the off chance GSN pick it up, I reserve the right to replace eating\u00a0my hat with a lovely KFC, mmm!<\/p>\n<p>It probably does not help that people suggest the Spikey show wasn&#8217;t very good despite the fact to all intents and purposes it was exactly the same show is was before it was originally axed, but with a different host and two fewer tunes for Pounds for Points and an elongated set.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullseyeonline.net\/\">Bullseye is currently touring theatres.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit: <\/strong>Here is an exciting rebuttal from Andrew Wood. Please remember in years to come that I don&#8217;t get much pleasure being right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the creator, deviser, writer and owner of Bullseye I felt compelled to comment on your factually incorrect article about Bullseye. The show was not axed and the end of series 15 on ITV. The company wanted to make series 16 but we declined as the contractual conditions demanded by the network were unacceptable to me and would not have been in the best interests of either Bullseye or its fans. Their offer was declined and we walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Their are 18.118,000 Americans that play darts at least twice a week. Darts is in the top 20 participant sports in America.\u00a0 Both, The Gurin Company and (CAA), Creative Artists Agency (probably the most powerful and influential Agency in the world) love Bullseye and are convinced that Bullseye will find a new home in\u00a0 America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bully\u2019s Million Dollar Jackpot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The contestants have the option of trying to win, Bully\u2019s Million-Dollar Jackpot.To win Bully\u2019s Million-Dollar Jackpot they risk losing all that they have won on the show, money and the prizes. The team must score 401 or more with 9 darts. The enormity of the challenge is matched by the enormity of the prize. The maximum that can be scored with 9 darts is 540.To Win \u2018Bully\u2019s Million-Dollar Jackpot\u2019, the team must score 401 or more with nine darts. The dart-playing contestant throwsthe first three darts, the \u2018brains\u2019 throws the second three darts and then the dart-playing contestant throws the final three darts.<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>The team have the choice of having the guest professional dart player on the show throwing the first three darts for their team, followed by the \u2018brains\u2019 throwing the second three darts and then the dart-playing contestant throws the final three darts. If the team fail to score 401 or more they do not win \u2018Bully\u2019s Million Dollar Jackpot\u2019 and they lose all the money and prizes theywon on the show. All is not lost however. Whatever the team\u2019s final total score is the host multiplies it by 10 and the contestants \u00a0get the cash equivalent of their team\u2019s score. For example, if the team scores a total of 320 they win $3,200 dollars. Although the contestants are disappointed at not winning Bully\u2019s Million Dollar Jackpot they are happy with their cash winnings and the show closes on a high note. Every one\u2019s a winner.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope you have the courage to print my comments above.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, You can\u2019t beat a bit of Bully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If those are the terms, I&#8217;m baffled as to why anyone would pick option one.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate my stance, I have no real\u00a0issue with <strong>Bullseye<\/strong>, I just don&#8217;t think it is going to sell in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the big thing going around Twitter is the (actually pretty old) news that The Gurin Company has bought the rights to Sunday afternoon favourite Bullseye, and together with one of the original creators\u00a0Andrew Wood they&#8217;ve created a million dollar version of it (involving having the players score 401 in 9 darts which while\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4610\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1cm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","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=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}