{"id":6026,"date":"2012-07-20T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T09:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2012-07-21T16:41:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T15:41:42","slug":"watching-telly-dont-blow-the-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6026","title":{"rendered":"Watching Telly: Don’t Blow the Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"

This films this weekend starting today. A full recording\u00a0review will appear here over the weekend, but if you go we’re interested in your thoughts.<\/p>\n

Right, I’ve seen this now. I think David Howell’s thoughts are perfectly good so I’m going to regurgitate them and add a few things to the end:<\/p>\n

* Start delayed. They were still putting a few bits together to be honest, on an oversized set for the show despite an audience of 50-odd. Five didn\u2019t make it to the end.
\n* Once we got going it flowed adequately for episode one.
\n* Four parent\/sibling couples play the game. Three elimination rounds build up the \u201cinheritance fund\u201d the winner plays for.
\n* In round 1 (which had a jokey title, think it was \u201cQuestions Needing Answers\u201d), it was standard Q&A, but the siblings buzzed whenever they thought their parent knew the answer. Add a grand if right, a wrong answer and it\u2019s a grand to all their opponents. Repeat about ten times, maybe a bit more, I forgot and lost count. Team in last goes out. Cue cheesy catchphrase. (\u201d We\u2019ve lost a team\u201d “It\u2019s the end of a dream!\u201d Yes, we chanted that bit.) ad break.
\n* Round 2, also with a stupid name, is the round that may decide most games. Four categories on the board, sibling picks category for parent, they have 30 seconds to get as many answers as possible from a top ten in that category. A grand for each right answer, and this was ridiculously swingy tonight. Last place goes out, catchphrase, ad break.
\n* Round 3 (\u201cClue \u2013 doh!\u201d) works the same as round 1 except there\u2019s three clues for each question instead of straight Q&A.
\n* The winner plays the endgame and this time it\u2019s the sibling who answers all the questions. Five questions right to win the whole lot, as soon as you\u2019ve got one wrong the money counts down at \u00a3100 every 0.4ish seconds but you\u2019re still just trying to get five right, and they don\u2019t have to be consecutive.
\n* Nearly every game will be played for something in the high teens, I reckon. Wins might vary a bit.
\n* It\u2019s an hour, and it doesn\u2019t need to be, but Tim is so funny with the contestants that the padding might almost help it.
\n* It\u2019s certainly much more lighthearted than The Chase<\/strong> or Tipping Point<\/strong>.
\n* I\u2019d watch it occasionally, but I think it\u2019s more fun to watch recorded because of all the Tim Vine fun that won\u2019t make the edit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now a few things I’m going to add:<\/p>\n