{"id":6092,"date":"2012-08-12T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2012-08-12T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T10:20:26","slug":"board-of-excitement-12th-18th-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6092","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 12th-18th August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, the Olympics are practically over and we have to get back to normality (until the Paralympics start). In the meantime you ought to know that my e-mail is currently buggered, so if you need to get me then try and catch me on Twitter or something.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s interesting\u00a0on this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Great Escape<\/strong> &#8211; Glad I stuck with this. (Sunday night, TNT in the US).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pointless<\/strong> &#8211; New episodes! They&#8217;ve just recorded 100 more, and I think there were still episodes left over from the last batch they recorded. So look out for more repeats in about a fortnight&#8217;s time. (Monday, 5:15pm. BBC1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amazing Race Australia<\/strong> &#8211; The final three episodes of what has been an enjoyable series go out Monday &#8211; Wednesday nights.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big Brother <\/strong>&#8211; I&#8217;m going to lump all of it here. It&#8217;s the civilian final of BBUK on Monday night (9pm, Five) and then Celebrity BBUK begins on Wednesday (9pm, Five). Whatsmore new Australian BB starts on Monday on Channel 9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Olympbrig Boxing<\/strong> &#8211; Poker! Tuesday at 8:30 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6089\">all the details here<\/a>. I&#8217;m currently looking a bit lonely \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>And that&#8217;s it until&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>All New Total Wipeout<\/strong> &#8211; all old jokes. (Saturday, 5:25pm, BBC1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red or Black <\/strong>&#8211; We&#8217;ll have a show discussion thread about this. (7:15pm and 9:15pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The X Factor<\/strong> &#8211; New series (Saturday 8pm ITV1)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secret Fortune <\/strong>&#8211; This week has<em> Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull<\/em> as lead-in. Good luck! (Saturday, 8:20pm, BBC1)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5973\"><strong>Fort Boyard<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; and adventure fans are well catered for on France 2 (Saturday 7:35pm UK time, France 2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Olympic Games? WHAT Olympic Games?<\/p>\n<p>In other news, it looks like another episode of Bother&#8217;s Bar favourite quiz-with-deathtraps Japanese show\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=3936\"><strong>Escape Game DERO!<\/strong><\/a> has been translated into<strong> <\/strong>English. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xot95y_dero_fun\">And here it is!<\/a> Only three rooms this time though.<\/p>\n<p>Friend of the Bar VierkanteO explains that the new series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=2939\"><strong>De Slimste <\/strong><\/a>has been <a href=\"http:\/\/squaredeyes00.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/12\/ratings-de-slimste-performing-extremely-well\/\">doing very well in the Netherlands<\/a>, yet there&#8217;s still no sign of a\u00a0UK version. FOR SHAME.<\/p>\n<p>Finally US host Bill Rafferty passed away at 68 over the weekend. Here&#8217;s a video of him hosting the original\u00a0US version of <strong>Every Second Counts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9iJns1cFb0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, the Olympics are practically over and we have to get back to normality (until the Paralympics start). In the meantime you ought to know that my e-mail is currently buggered, so if you need to get me then try and catch me on Twitter or something. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s interesting\u00a0on this week: The Great Escape\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6092\">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-6092","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-1Ag","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","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=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}