{"id":6207,"date":"2012-09-09T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2012-09-09T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:12:24","slug":"board-of-excitement-9th-15th-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6207","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 9th-15th September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Summer turns into Autumn, let us see what dead leaves there are to be mulched in the world of competitive light\u00a0entertainment this week. Yes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dragon&#8217;s&#8217;s&#8217;s&#8221;&#8217; Den<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0New series of the show where\u00a0Evan Davis basically reiterates something that happened on screen five seconds previously. (9pm, Sunday, BBC2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only Connect<\/strong> &#8211; Footballers vs Second Violinists. Clarke Carlisle nowhere to be seen. (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dancing With The Cards<\/strong> &#8211; the next exciting Bother&#8217;s Bar Poker Event, open to anyone with $13.50 lying around in their Pokerstars account and can make Tuesday Night at 8:30. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6153\">Here are the details<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Million Pound Drop &#8211; Live! <\/strong>Surprised they don&#8217;t just have this on Fridays and Saturdays in perpetuity these days, it&#8217;s on over the next six weekends and once again a member of the public will get to play with a celeb. Don&#8217;t forget you can play along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=5858\">The Million Pound Drapp<\/a> &#8211; Live! (Friday 9pm, Saturday 9:20pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>QI<\/strong> &#8211; Series J. It&#8217;s funny to think when I went and saw an episode from the first series being filmed they were suggesting it would be as big as <em>Have I Got News For You<\/em>. I scoffed. I was wrong. Also Victoria Coren&#8217;s in this one. (10pm, Friday, BBC2)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comedy World Cup<\/strong> &#8211; David Tennant (obviously) chairs a new panel game\u00a0thing where comedians do battle to determine who is funniest. Presumably. Actually we don&#8217;t know an awful lot about this. (8:20pm, Saturday, C4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And we were hoping to bill <strong>Schlag den Raab<\/strong> this week, but that&#8217;s actually the 22nd September as it turns out. Still there&#8217;s no stopping Ver Raab, he&#8217;s doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6200&amp;cpage=1#comment-44872\">competitive big prize political\u00a0debate show thing<\/a> called <strong>Absolute Mehrheit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Summer turns into Autumn, let us see what dead leaves there are to be mulched in the world of competitive light\u00a0entertainment this week. Yes. Dragon&#8217;s&#8217;s&#8217;s&#8221;&#8217; Den &#8211;\u00a0New series of the show where\u00a0Evan Davis basically reiterates something that happened on screen five seconds previously. (9pm, Sunday, BBC2) Only Connect &#8211; Footballers vs Second Violinists. Clarke\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6207\">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-6207","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-1C7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207","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=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}