On ITV1. Not a surprise I’m sure. But I always think it’s worth tipping the hat to the task team every year who continue to manage to dress up the same four challenges (eat nasty things, put your hand in nasty things, get covered in nasty things, Celebrity Cyclone) day in day out in new and innovative ways and then hilariously don’t get used properly because of the horrific bullying nature of the great British public. 13 series now, so that must be about 200 different bushtucker trials? At least there’s a bit more freedom with the celebrity chests.<\/p>\n
I hope they’ve found a more tension filled way of revealing the votes than “it’s NOT you, it’s NOT you, it’s NOT you so it must be you.”<\/p>\n
In other news, Pointless<\/strong> is reaching 4.5m on an afternoon now. That’s not far off Weakest Link <\/strong>and Deal or No Deal<\/strong>\u00a0at their peak but against much stiffer competition (Paul O Grady is doing 2.3-2.4, which if it wasn’t for The Chase<\/strong> wouldn’t ordinarily be something to be sniffed at). Incredible, especially as it’s taken a number of years to reach that level whereas WL<\/strong>‘s afternoon success came quite quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On ITV1. Not a surprise I’m sure. But I always think it’s worth tipping the hat to the task team every year who continue to manage to dress up the same four challenges (eat nasty things, put your hand in nasty things, get covered in nasty things, Celebrity Cyclone) day in day out in new\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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7787","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-21B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787","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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}