{"id":5164,"date":"2012-01-09T22:27:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T22:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2012-02-01T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T12:18:13","slug":"playing-it-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5164","title":{"rendered":"Playing it Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am quite pleased this is back, although the first ten minutes did feel like a tribute act to the original UK series (there’s now a pair of troubadours). Is there really any need to show nudity in the pre-titles? Blimey, time and place. Alan Carr is quite a good fit for the voiceover replacing Alan Cumming, although as a show certainly the opener lacked some of the subtlety (and it wasn’t a hugely<\/em> subtle show originally) of the original, a bit less Carry On<\/em> and a bit more full on.<\/p>\n

This said, I did get into it quite quickly.<\/p>\n

Here is a fun interview I did with one of the original producers Peter Davey about five years ago.<\/a>\u00a0It is produced by different people now, although it is the same production company.<\/p>\n

As a reality show with a fair amount of play along at home value, I’ve put my initial guesses under the cut. Green for right, red for wrong!<\/p>\n

OK. In the order they were introduced:<\/p>\n