{"id":7062,"date":"2013-03-05T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2013-03-05T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T10:41:13","slug":"i-went-and-saw-pointless-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7062","title":{"rendered":"I went and saw Pointless and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went and saw Pointless being filmed today, the first of series <del>seven (I think)<\/del> (Apparently not, thanks Dan H) at the new digs at Elstree.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basically nothing&#8217;s changed, so the apparently very exciting new endgame is being saved for another series. Still if you&#8217;re going to waste my time and money, at least the show is still entertaining to go and see.<\/li>\n<li>Basically look out for lots of jokes and references to moving to Elstree in the first episode (specifically things that you&#8217;re nearer to now they&#8217;ve moved), and they&#8217;re not shy about pointing out to viewers that although nothing looks like its changed actually it has and it&#8217;s been months since the previous episode had been recorded. OR it will probably all get edited out.<\/li>\n<li>The big issue is that there appeared to be a massive static problem, and Xander was frequently audibly yelping when leaning on his monitor. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s been a format where a host tries to host whilst getting regular electric shocks, so that&#8217;s something for the future.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Olver did the warm up. I know he&#8217;s been around a lot and regularly does <strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong>, but this is the first time our paths crossed. He was good! He&#8217;s Bristolian and shouts at people.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve been to Elstree, but the last time was for The Exit List which had a weird set-up. The Elstree audience holding area is a bit swanky isn&#8217;t it? Much better than the Television Centre&#8217;s, in that there are a proper amount of seats and tables. And the bar sold a Snickers and a can of Coke for \u00a31.60, which is less than it costs in my work canteen.<\/li>\n<li>It seemed to take an age to get everybody into the studio, although I can&#8217;t tell whether that&#8217;s a feature of the studio or because there was a coach load of old people come to watch and I was towards the back.<\/li>\n<li>I award Elstree 8\/10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went and saw Pointless being filmed today, the first of series seven (I think) (Apparently not, thanks Dan H) at the new digs at Elstree. Basically nothing&#8217;s changed, so the apparently very exciting new endgame is being saved for another series. Still if you&#8217;re going to waste my time and money, at least\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7062\">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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching-telly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1PU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","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=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}