{"id":7746,"date":"2013-10-11T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2013-10-11T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:17:28","slug":"thats-yer-pilot-battle-of-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7746","title":{"rendered":"That’s Yer (Pi)Lot: Battle of the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to @TeamXander1<\/a> for the following report on what must be about the 36th pilot of Battle of the Ages<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

It was in the Eldon Road section of Elstree Studios. Quite a nice green and yellow set, non-shiny floor, large hanging pictures of things meant to represent different generations – Andy Pandy, Angry Birds, a draper’s shop, smartphones, etc etc. The audience sit all around the set. Can’t imagine those behind the panel got much of a view. The teams’ desks have video screens in the front, and I assume the players also had screens on their side. I will speak more of these later.<\/p>\n

There were two teams, the Older Generation (captain Dave Spikey and guest Billy Pierce) and the Current Crop (captain Jo Brand and guest Rufus Hound). Alexander Armstrong hosted. I can’t remember the names of the rounds, so I’ll give them my own names.<\/p>\n

When I were a lad:
\nThe teams are given a topic and each in turn has to explain why their generation had it worse than the other. The topic here was Holidays. The funniest individual wins the round.<\/p>\n

Duel:
\nTwo players (the two guests this time) take turns trading jokes on a given topic for 2 minutes. Every time one of them gets a laugh, a buzzer goes and the other takes over. At the end of the 2 minutes, the one who has taken up the shortest amount of time getting their laughs wins the round. Two different topics were recorded.<\/p>\n

Envelopes:
\nEach player has a choice from 3 envelopes. They then have to do standup for 1 minute on the subject in the chosen envelope. The one who gets the loudest laughter wins the round.<\/p>\n

=== COMMERCIAL BREAK ====<\/p>\n

Putting the world to rights:
\nEach player in turn says what they would get rid of or change to improve the world. The funniest wins the round.<\/p>\n

Duel:
\nSame as before, but this time the team captains. Two topics again.<\/p>\n

Buzzer round:
\nPlayers buzz in with short jokes on a given topic. Several topics during the round.<\/p>\n

I think this has the makings of an entertaining show. The Duel rounds were particularly good.<\/p>\n

I was really bothered by the screens though. It felt as if someone had designed a set with screens in, then they’d desperately tried to think of something to do with them. In the whole show, I think we saw 2 still photos and 1 video, none of which were essential. One of the photos wasn’t even relevant, as far as I could see. They either need to integrate the screens far more, or just bite the bullet and get rid of them.<\/p>\n

Recording started at 7.30 and we were out at 9.45, the time we’d been promised. Not bad at all for a pilot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to @TeamXander1 for the following report on what must be about the 36th pilot of Battle of the Ages: It was in the Eldon Road section of Elstree Studios. Quite a nice green and yellow set, non-shiny floor, large hanging pictures of things meant to represent different generations – Andy Pandy, Angry Birds, a\u2026 Read More »<\/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":[803,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-thats-your-pilot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-20W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","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=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}