{"id":6119,"date":"2012-08-17T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2012-08-17T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:47:17","slug":"show-discussion-red-or-black-series-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6119","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Red or Black Series Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=4255\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4255\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4255\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=4255\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/redorblack.png\" data-orig-size=\"299,169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"redorblack\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/redorblack.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4255\" title=\"redorblack\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/redorblack.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Saturday, 7:15pm and 9:15pm,<br \/>\nITV1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Welcome back to <strong>Red or Black<\/strong>. The fact that it was ITV1&#8217;s highest rated new entertainment\u00a0show of 2011 probably says more about the state of ITV1 than it does the quality of the show. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4254\">The first series attracted a record amount of comments and discussion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still though, here we are. Last year it was apparently brilliant because &#8220;it&#8217;s just luck&#8221;, this time they&#8217;re playing down the luck aspect almost completely, highlighting it as a game of nerve, courage and skill. GONE is the centrepiece Red or Black wheel, which looked like it was encouraging gambling if you were thick, IN comes The Vortex, a high stakes game of timing.<\/p>\n<p>I think we may have a slightly schitzophrenic show. Part one, which I would suspect will have most of the budget blown on You Bet! style challenges and will likely get fewer viewers, and part two which is likely a drawn out lottery draw-esque show with the end game and maybe something else which was cheaper to produce and will get loads more viewers. I may be wrong, time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>I think it needs to clear 6m to avoid being a told-you-so laughing stock. I think it has a\u00a0fair chance of that sandwiching <strong>The X Factor<\/strong>, but we&#8217;ve yet to see how <strong>The X Factor<\/strong> is going to hold up this year. They might end up dragging each other down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 7:15pm and 9:15pm, ITV1 Welcome back to Red or Black. The fact that it was ITV1&#8217;s highest rated new entertainment\u00a0show of 2011 probably says more about the state of ITV1 than it does the quality of the show. The first series attracted a record amount of comments and discussion. Still though, here we are.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6119\">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":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1AH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","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=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}