{"id":7628,"date":"2013-08-10T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2013-08-09T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T16:38:27","slug":"show-discussion-that-puppet-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7628","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: That Puppet Game Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tpgs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=7629\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tpgs.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,160\" 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=\"tpgs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tpgs.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7629\" alt=\"tpgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tpgs.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Saturday, 18:45<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BBC1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is slightly unusual because I&#8217;ve actually already been to an audience screening and seen two episodes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7555\">If you want to read the full report it&#8217;s right here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically it&#8217;s entertaining, but the ad-libbing is rather funnier than the behind the scenes scripted stuff and unfortunately the behind-the-scenes scripted stuff is about 40% of the show. If you haven&#8217;t decided it&#8217;s not for you in the first few minutes you&#8217;ll probably stick with it &#8211; some of the games are quite clever. I don&#8217;t get why they need to point out it&#8217;s for charity every few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I think puppets are a hard sell to a general audience and it has zero lead-in for the first episode. But what it isn&#8217;t, and I must stress this, is as bad as <strong>Don&#8217;t Scare the Hare.<\/strong>\u00a0Not by a long shot. But I have little doubt that&#8217;s the show people are already comparing it to before they&#8217;ve even seen it.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode is Jonathan Ross vs Katherine Jenkins and might be a blinder. Let us know your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 18:45 BBC1 This is slightly unusual because I&#8217;ve actually already been to an audience screening and seen two episodes. If you want to read the full report it&#8217;s right here. Basically it&#8217;s entertaining, but the ad-libbing is rather funnier than the behind the scenes scripted stuff and unfortunately the behind-the-scenes scripted stuff is about\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7628\">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":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1Z2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}