{"id":8038,"date":"2014-06-16T18:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2014-06-16T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:27:42","slug":"pointless-is-up-for-a-rose-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8038","title":{"rendered":"Pointless is up for a Rose d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well Richard Osman is always complaining that he&#8217;s never won an award, I think the <strong>Pointless<\/strong> team have got a decent shout here though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosedor.com\/news.html\">Pointless is shortlisted for a Rose d&#8217;Or<\/a>. The contenders in the game show category:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Extraordinary Masters (original title &#8216;Die Deutschen Meister&#8217;)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Brainpool TV GmbH (Germany)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pointless (UK)<\/strong>, \u00a0Episode 1 (Series 9) \u2013 Endemol International BV (The Netherlands)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Common Denominator<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Armoza Formats (Israel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the looks of things, <em>Die Deutschen Meister<\/em> looks like a spin off of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=6999\">Der Kl\u00fcgste Deutsche<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by way of <strong>Wetten Dass<\/strong>, by the sounds of things champions in unusual disciplines are pitted against each other and judges decide which of the them seemed most impressive, and all the winners are put to a public vote at the end for a \u20ac100,000 prize. Can any of our German friends let us know if it&#8217;s worth a watch?<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t see <strong>The Common Denominator<\/strong> winning it &#8211; not all that successful, a bit average as a show, and Rose D&#8217;or does tend to pick fairly interesting and left field winners (previous winners in the game show category working backwards: <strong>Oh Sit! Million Pound Drop, Bingo Banko, Relentless, Power of 10, Deal or No Deal, Test the Nation,\u00a0<\/strong>most of which have pushed the boundaries of the genre in one way or another), working for <em>Pointless<\/em> then: not very internationally successful. Working against it: <em>Die Deutschen Meister<\/em> feels like more of a left field, large scale choice&#8230; but it does feel like it&#8217;s been done before, impressive as it looks.<\/p>\n<p>Also <strong>Through the Keyhole<\/strong> is up for the comedy award, and <strong>A League of Their Own<\/strong> up for Entertainment (against <em>Graham Norton<\/em> and <em>Circus Halli Galli<\/em>, constantly advertised during <strong>Schlag den Raab<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Richard Osman is always complaining that he&#8217;s never won an award, I think the Pointless team have got a decent shout here though, Pointless is shortlisted for a Rose d&#8217;Or. The contenders in the game show category: Extraordinary Masters (original title &#8216;Die Deutschen Meister&#8217;)\u00a0\u2013 Brainpool TV GmbH (Germany) Pointless (UK), \u00a0Episode 1 (Series 9)\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8038\">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-8038","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-25E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","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=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}