{"id":7773,"date":"2013-11-03T19:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2013-11-03T19:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:51:18","slug":"show-discussion-pressure-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7773","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Pressure Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pressurepad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7774\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=7774\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pressurepad.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"608,342\" 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=\"pressurepad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pressurepad.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7774\" alt=\"pressurepad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pressurepad-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pressurepad-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pressurepad.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Weekdays, 3pm,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BBC 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A visually iconic quiz unlike any you have seen before.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the blurb suggests, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7082\">if the pilot is anything to go by<\/a> it&#8217;s lots of mini-quiz formats you have seen before done but on a yay-big sized floor screen, not seen since the &#8220;place the thing on a map&#8221; bit from <strong>I Love My Country<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it does have one-man nuclear power station John Barrowman hosting (so that in itself should guarantee it a few viewers), if they haven&#8217;t changed much from the pilot the quiz itself is harmless enough (individuals face off in best of three games, losers are eliminated, in the final round the team captain can get help answering multiple-choice questions from surviving teammates, and if they get them all right straight off the bat they win a progressive jackpot &#8211; it&#8217;s the most 12 Yard 12 Yard format in aeons). Here are the two things I think will kill it if they&#8217;ve not modified them from the pilot (of course you never know how well these things come out in the edit):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The insistence on playing everything as best of three but starting each game from the easy beginning bits each time, which made me want to claw my eyes out. The games are sort of <em>Price is Right<\/em> style &#8211; some take longer than others. the prospect of a third go round of some of the games makes me wake-up in a cold sweat. The more quickfire ones are less bad.<\/li>\n<li>Whilst there is a rolling jackpot element, it&#8217;s difficult not to come to the conclusion that the standard prize of \u00a32,000 split between five people <em>feels a bit cheap.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Very interested to see how this translates to screen, so let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekdays, 3pm, BBC 1 A visually iconic quiz unlike any you have seen before. That&#8217;s what the blurb suggests, if the pilot is anything to go by it&#8217;s lots of mini-quiz formats you have seen before done but on a yay-big sized floor screen, not seen since the &#8220;place the thing on a map&#8221; bit\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7773\">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-7773","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-21n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","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=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}