{"id":7932,"date":"2014-04-04T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2014-04-04T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:34:33","slug":"show-discussion-fifteen-to-one-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7932","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Fifteen to One 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"15to1\"<\/a>Saturday 5:15pm then weekdays 4:30pm,<\/strong>
\nChannel 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

And so prosaic quiz week on Bother’s Bar ends with the revival of the show die-hard quizzers love but which I always found a bit dull really – Fifteen to One<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And I think they’re in a tough spot. The reason the original was so beloved is that it was quite dry, question after question after question. This version is going to be less dry, but at an hour long it’s not going to be so quickfire – player chat is promised by Toksvig (everyone gets three goes to reach the Pointless\u00a0Final<\/em>, the grand prize is a legitimately large \u00a340k which is easier to have a chat about than an old piece of pot). Diehards are going to rail against it because it feels like they’ve missed the point of the original (which everyone stopped watching), casuals are probably not going to switch over from shows that are already on that look like more fun (and Deal or No Deal<\/strong> feels like a very strange lead-in). Damned if they do and damned if they don’t really.<\/p>\n

Still University Challenge<\/strong> managed a successful comeback under similar circumstances (albeit not as a programme double the length with added chat) so you never know. Quoting myself for the record though:<\/p>\n

I predict 900k-1m for the first civvy episode and everyone will get excited and go \u201cooh it\u2019s a hit!\u201d and it\u2019ll be below 700k by the end of week two. I don\u2019t know how much it needs to be seen as a success, but it\u2019s not like\u00a0Come Dine On A Trip In A Bed<\/strong>\u00a0is expensive to make.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll see if I look like a genius or an idiot in a few weeks. At the time of writing that prediction we were expecting the first civvy episode to be on the Monday and not the Saturday after the Grand National (which we initially thought was going to be a celeb special), so I expect the first episode to be a bit more of an outlier.<\/p>\n

I quite like the soviet-esque theme they’ve gone for in the background, there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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