{"id":6756,"date":"2013-01-01T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2013-01-01T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:52:11","slug":"storm-in-a-tea-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6756","title":{"rendered":"Storm in a Tea Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[By the way, please keep voting in the exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=6748\">Poll of the Year 2012<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=6757\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=6757\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/storminateacup.png\" data-orig-size=\"428,500\" 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=\"storminateacup\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/storminateacup.png\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6757\" alt=\"storminateacup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/storminateacup-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Wednesday January 2nd 2013\u00a0represnts an exciting day in the world of television and the world of gameshows. Kids programmes now have their own seperate channels so the main networks are filling the afternoons with gameshows (and <em>Flog It<\/em>!). This is a good time for format developers who can make a good cheap show with a view to being the next <strong>Weakest Link<\/strong>, <strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong>, <strong>Pointless<\/strong>, or <strong>The Chase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The itinerary for tomorrow\u00a0is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dickinson&#8217;s Real Deal <\/strong>(ITV, 3-4pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perfection<\/strong> (BBC1, 3:45-4:30pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tipping Point<\/strong> (ITV 4-5pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong> (C4 4-5pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flog It!<\/strong> (4:30-5:15pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Chase<\/strong> (ITV 5-6pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Come Dine With Me<\/strong> (C4 5-6pm)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pointless<\/strong> (5:15-6pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if that wasn&#8217;t enough, <strong>Countdown<\/strong> returns to Channel 4 on Monday at 2:40, followed by a new show that finally seems to have settled on <strong>Face the Clock<\/strong> as a title (C4, 3:30pm) (Incidentally, an ironic title as facing a clock is precisely the one thing contestants won&#8217;t be doing. Anyway, it will get its own show discussion post). These next couple of months are going to be exciting and possibly brutal, it&#8217;s\u00a0particularly interesting that none of BBC1s or ITVs shows share a junction &#8211; the hope is you&#8217;ll stick with the channel all afternoon. It&#8217;s actually a little bit like cycling, if you see <strong>Pointless<\/strong> and <strong>The Chase<\/strong> as the team leaders, <strong>Perfection<\/strong> and <strong>Tipping Point<\/strong> are the domestiques trying to get their riders to the finish line as quickly as possible. Something like that. We all understand cycling after London 2012.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? And have they improved <em>Tipping Point<\/em> for series two? Nailbiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[By the way, please keep voting in the exciting Poll of the Year 2012.] Wednesday January 2nd 2013\u00a0represnts an exciting day in the world of television and the world of gameshows. Kids programmes now have their own seperate channels so the main networks are filling the afternoons with gameshows (and Flog It!). This is a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6756\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1KY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","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=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}