{"id":7816,"date":"2013-12-17T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2013-12-17T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T12:42:07","slug":"festive-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7816","title":{"rendered":"Festive Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve doubtless gathered, it&#8217;s basically Christmas and basically I&#8217;m out having various dinners because I&#8217;m so popular and that. Expect a low level of service over the period (although I&#8217;ll be around variously and it&#8217;s the final <strong>Schlag den Raab<\/strong> of the year on Saturday and Placebo are on it! So look out for that.), there&#8217;s not much news about anyway. However here are some things you might have missed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pointless Celebrities<\/strong> on Saturday outrated <strong>Sports Personality of the Year<\/strong> in the overnights, the award show that middle-class ratings watchers said would beat the <strong>X Factor Final<\/strong>. Ha ha, no. Former host Jake Humphrey SHOWED HIS DISPLEASURE:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>How can &#8216;Pointless Celebrities&#8217; average a higher audience than Sports Personality this weekend?!? That is simply daft! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SPOTYIsLegendary&amp;src=hash\">#SPOTYIsLegendary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Humphrey (@mrjakehumphrey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrjakehumphrey\/statuses\/412540946916859904\">December 16, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7813&amp;cpage=1#comment-146956\">Paolo Bonolis&#8217; agent has threatened<\/a> they&#8217;ll stop making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7713\"><strong>Avanti un Altro!<\/strong><\/a> if another Mediaset channel dares to put <strong>Big Brother<\/strong> on opposite it. <em>AUA<\/em> is frequently breaking its audience records. Ah! Italian television. Anyway, perhaps he can host a UK version, which would likely be terrible otherwise.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re having a chat about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=7789\"><strong>The Genius<\/strong> series two here<\/a>. It is, as ever, interesting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wie is de Mol?<\/strong> begins on January 2nd. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=7800\">We have a page set up for it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uitzendinggemist.nl\/afleveringen\/1384678\"><strong>De Slimste<\/strong> is BACK in the Netherlands!<\/a>\u00a0It&#8217;s only been a few months since the last series.<\/li>\n<li>The first Bother&#8217;s Bar Monthly Open poker game will be on January 5th. Registration is not yet open, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=5885\">but you can certainly join the poker club right now.<\/a>\u00a0Actually can I still call it an Open if you have to join a club for it? Never mind.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, we&#8217;re aware that regular punter and supplier of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=5\"> lots of feature material for this site<\/a> Travis Penery has been very ill (as in intensive care ill) recently, and we wish him all the best for a speedy recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve doubtless gathered, it&#8217;s basically Christmas and basically I&#8217;m out having various dinners because I&#8217;m so popular and that. Expect a low level of service over the period (although I&#8217;ll be around variously and it&#8217;s the final Schlag den Raab of the year on Saturday and Placebo are on it! So look out for\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7816\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7816","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-224","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816","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=7816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}