{"id":7412,"date":"2013-06-12T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2013-06-12T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:15:16","slug":"take-on-the-twisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7412","title":{"rendered":"Take on the Twisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly ITV and 12 Yard are coming to the Games With Sand Timers Party with Julia Bradbury fronted <strong>Take on the Twisters<\/strong> coming to ITV afternoons (presumably this was the show under the working title <em>Twisted<\/em>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/news\/commissioning\/julia-bradbury-to-front-itv-daytime-quiz\/5057265.article\">Here is the Broadcast article<\/a> but it&#8217;s probably behind a paywall so I&#8217;ll summarise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s hosted by Julia Bradbury off of <em>Countryfile<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>30 episodes, 60 minutes each.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Contestants will use knowledge and strategy to outwit a giant timer and defeat their opponents.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>But it&#8217;s better than that because I have been informed there are in fact MULTIPLE TIMERS.<\/li>\n<li>Contestants can win thousands of pounds by answering multiple choice and quickfire questions.<\/li>\n<li>The title sounds like a sort of 80s action cartoon in the <em>Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors<\/em> mould, so I hope it has a similar rawk theme tune.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know how you outwit a giant timer, but there we are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Julia Bradbury will be fine, she hosted <strong>Pump It Up<\/strong> with Andy Collins after all. More news as we get it.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it is only Endemol now who haven&#8217;t jumped on the sand timer bandwagon, so get on with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit: <\/strong>Have been informed of the basic premise &#8211; One player plays against the clock, there are six timers of various lengths, a correct answer upends a timer. Whichever timers are still running at the end of time earn money. Best player of four plays the final with eight timers, and the money hidden behind one of them. Sounds like it would be entertainingly messy to play, we&#8217;ll see how it comes across on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly ITV and 12 Yard are coming to the Games With Sand Timers Party with Julia Bradbury fronted Take on the Twisters coming to ITV afternoons (presumably this was the show under the working title Twisted). Here is the Broadcast article but it&#8217;s probably behind a paywall so I&#8217;ll summarise: It&#8217;s hosted by Julia Bradbury\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7412\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7412","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-1Vy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","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=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}