{"id":54,"date":"2010-01-03T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-01-03T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T14:52:29","slug":"board-of-excitement-3rd-9th-jan-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 3rd-9th Jan 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; it&#8217;s back!<\/p>\n<p>The plan is every Sunday to go through the following week&#8217;s competitive TV and pick out the things we&#8217;re actually going to make the effort to actually watch. There are a lot of gameshows and reality shows, but we only have time to do and watch so much, so think of this as our highlights of the week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Celebrity Big Brother Launch <\/strong>(Sunday C4 9pm) &#8211; As I&#8217;ve done with BB for the last few years, I&#8217;ll probably watch the launch and then not bother to watch the rest. You never know though.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only Connect<\/strong> (Monday BBC4 8:30pm) &#8211; Tough but fun quiz returns for a third series, and a full-length one this time around as well. Tonight&#8217;s opener features the Archers Admirers vs Music Lovers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The World&#8217;s Strongest Man 2009 <\/strong>(Monday Bravo 9pm) &#8211; Not only do Bravo mess with tradition by not showing it all betwixt Christmas and New Year (yes I know Five showed it a bit later, shh), they seem to be showing it on a weekly basis the year after the event itself! Many years on, there remains nothing sniggerworthy about Phil Pfister.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Krypton Factor <\/strong>(Tuesday ITV 7:30pm) &#8211; A change of day for the return of last year&#8217;s hugely enjoyable remake. This time round there&#8217;s a much improved assault course, but bafflingly a lack of the ever-popular\u00a0intelligence test. To me this seems rather short sighted, so expect Observation to be dropped next year (ho ho!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week we may also watch <strong>Raven<\/strong> (Tuesday and Thursday CBBC 4pm), although we still don&#8217;t love the direction the show has taken recently, and as this series was filmed back to back with the last one probably won&#8217;t offer an awful lot by way of surprise. That being said, <em>Raven<\/em> at its least good is still better than a lot of shows at their peak. We might also dip into <strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong> (C4 Sunday 5pm, weekdays 4:10pm), not something we watch religiously these days but I caught a load over Christmas and still manages to be hugely entertaining over four years on. Now with leatherette graphics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; it&#8217;s back! The plan is every Sunday to go through the following week&#8217;s competitive TV and pick out the things we&#8217;re actually going to make the effort to actually watch. There are a lot of gameshows and reality shows, but we only have time to do and watch so much, so think\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=54\">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-54","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-S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}