{"id":7877,"date":"2014-02-10T18:49:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2014-02-10T20:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:00:51","slug":"schedule-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"Schedule Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you might have seen this in the comments, but I thought I&#8217;d put it up for a bigger audience. Basically Channel 4 are rejigging their schedule from next Monday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2:40pm: <strong>Countdown<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>3:30pm: <strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>4:30pm: <strong>Come Dine With Me<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>5:00pm: <strong>Coach Trip<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>5:30pm: <strong>Superstar Dogs &#8211; Countdown to Crufts<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who are the winners and losers here? Bear in mind that a new series of behemoth <strong>Tipping Point<\/strong> begins at 4pm on Monday on ITV.<\/p>\n<p>Difficult not to see <em>Countdown<\/em> as the big loser here, just as it was recovering to a halfway respectable figure C4 puts it back to Nowheresville. <em>Deal and Dine<\/em> will be really interesting, right now <em>Deal<\/em>&#8216;s getting over a mill and <em>Dine<\/em> remains a strong 1.5m performer, but Deal&#8217;s audience halves when put up against <em>Tipping Point<\/em>, in theory there are less people around at half three, and it doesn&#8217;t fall in a natural junction (ITV has the perennial <strong>Dickinson&#8217;s Real Deal<\/strong> and the returning <strong>Alan Titchmarsh<\/strong> at 2-3 and 3-4, and I suspect people will lock into it for the afternoon if they start watching. On the other hand, <em>Deal<\/em> still seems to skew young even if it&#8217;s only half a mill, and is apparently profitable enough \u00a0for everybody that rumours (and I stress rumours) are suggesting it&#8217;s been recommissioned post 2014).<em> Come Dine With Me<\/em> feels a bit like it&#8217;s in the middle of nowhere really being a utility prop-up-the-slot show. <strong>Coach Trip<\/strong> has been rating well and there&#8217;s no reason to believe it won&#8217;t continue, <strong>Superstar Dogs<\/strong>\u00a0will have old ladies and kids awwwing over John Barrowman, my gut suggests it might be a fun show in the wrong slot, Barrowman is certainly no guarantee of success. But we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you might have seen this in the comments, but I thought I&#8217;d put it up for a bigger audience. Basically Channel 4 are rejigging their schedule from next Monday: 2:40pm: Countdown 3:30pm: Deal or No Deal 4:30pm: Come Dine With Me 5:00pm: Coach Trip 5:30pm: Superstar Dogs &#8211; Countdown to Crufts Who are the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7877\">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-7877","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-233","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","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=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}