{"id":7568,"date":"2013-07-27T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7568"},"modified":"2013-08-03T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T12:58:42","slug":"show-discussion-the-national-lottery-break-the-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7568","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: The National Lottery Break the Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"breakthesafe\"<\/a>Saturday night, 8:50pm<\/strong>
\nBBC1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well this has had a rather interesting past, Talkback Thames have been trying to work out how to put “counting to thirty seconds in your head” into a hit format for a-a-a-g-g-g-e-s-s, first to my knowledge in Dick ‘n’ Dom’s The Clock is Ticking<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(third story down – christ, over six years ago). Evidently the Beeb decided not to take it series, but Thames were determined to make people count to thirty in their head so piloted Break the Safe<\/strong> in August 2011 (which we were there for)<\/a>\u00a0with Jake Humpreys. As a quiz it was OK?\u00a0<\/em>But it featured THE single most tedious result reveal in the history of recorded television. In the meantime, The Cube<\/strong> features counting to thirty in your head as a game now as well.<\/p>\n

I was mildly surprised to see it get commissioned, but here we are on the edge of an eight episode run. On the plus side, the safe looks much more impressive than it did in the pilot (where it was some sliding screen doors), and the lack of light gantry up either side of the safe suggests someone else thought the result reveal was the most tedious thing in the history of recorded television as well.<\/p>\n

Good 90 second preview on the BBC site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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