{"id":779,"date":"2010-02-27T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=779"},"modified":"2010-02-27T21:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:33:33","slug":"ant-and-decs-push-the-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Ant and Dec&#8217;s Push the Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well hello there.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly no audience members wanting to write up the PtB recording, which is fair enough, but tonight we see the thing as intended. ITV1, 7:45pm.<\/p>\n<p>I predict it will be fun albeit not terribly groundbreaking. I&#8217;ll edit some opinions in\u00a0here later.<\/p>\n<p>Alright then, foir me this a firmly 7\/10 show, which if you read the internet is about five more than the average person would have given it. But:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those bits where Ant and Dec surprised the families was a lot of fun. Yes it was a little bit like <strong>The Moment of Truth<\/strong>, or at least the ones when Cilla could be bothered to see the families at any rate.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;ll All End In Tiers was absolutely epic. More shows should have quite tense timed skill games with the theme from Please Sir! in the background.<\/li>\n<li>The sorting the post and Simon Cowell&#8217;s teeth games were perfectly adequate, although the games with the cash clock are more fun than games with a fixed penalty.<\/li>\n<li>Yes the yodelling thing (and indeed the entire show&#8217;s set-up)\u00a0was a bit naff and\u00a0straight from <strong>The Generation Game<\/strong>. But <em>The Generation Game<\/em> hasn&#8217;t been on for years and apparently people are clamouring for phamily phun, so why not? I am definitely <strong>not<\/strong> of the persuasion that old things are better because they are old. Also I am intrigued by the idea of &#8220;non-viewer involving pap&#8221; &#8211; the idea that successful\u00a0gameshows have to have great playalongathome value is one of the greatest fallacies of the last twenty years or possibly more.<\/li>\n<li>It did seem there were a lot of adverts towards the end, that is because there was almost twenty minutes before the first one.<\/li>\n<li>Originally I thought the endgame was unbelievably cheap &#8211; five-player Simon paying out the first digit for three notes, first two for five all the way to all five digits for 11. I didn&#8217;t think this was going to pay-out very big very often (when was the last time you tried memorising an 11 note tune?). One mistake allowed.\u00a0However, @ThatBenBaker on Twitter suggested to me that if everyone just concentrates on their own notes and the positions of those notes then it should be possible. I was quite surprised to see the jackpot won this evening.<\/li>\n<li>And thanks to someone who was at the recording for pointing out that apparently the winning family were given an extra lifeline where they could listen to any one tune again. Why did they edit that out?<\/li>\n<li>I quite liked the disclaimer gags on the voting audience and salt and pepper shakers.<\/li>\n<li>Ronnie Corbett&#8217;s voiceover in post didn&#8217;t work at all, if I&#8217;m being honest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically it&#8217;s <em>fine<\/em> and I hope it does OK for them.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m told a question was edited out of <strong>Innit<\/strong> this evening. Does anyone know why? A question about Chile or earthquakes perhaps? <strong>Edit:<\/strong> Alexander MacQueen apparently, thanks Gary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well hello there. Seemingly no audience members wanting to write up the PtB recording, which is fair enough, but tonight we see the thing as intended. ITV1, 7:45pm. I predict it will be fun albeit not terribly groundbreaking. I&#8217;ll edit some opinions in\u00a0here later. Alright then, foir me this a firmly 7\/10 show, which if\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=779\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-show"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-cz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}