{"id":8042,"date":"2014-06-18T23:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2014-06-18T23:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:40:04","slug":"watching-telly-million-pound-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8042","title":{"rendered":"Watching Telly: Million Pound Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well look, we wait weeks and weeks to have worthwhile things to post and then the last week there&#8217;s been an exciting deluge. It looks as though the Summer of Boring is over. Anyway our good chum Matt (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/imattg5\">@iMattG5<\/a>) went on saw one of the recording sessions for the recorded <strong>Million Pound Drop<\/strong> series coming up, and here is the wisdom he has to impart (edited and pieced together):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan Carr returns to play with Nick Grimshaw, mainly to advertise <strong>The Singer Takes It All.\u00a0<\/strong>It sounds like <em>TSTIA<\/em> will be slotted at the same time or around <strong>MPD<\/strong> as Davina recorded a &#8220;next Friday at 9pm&#8221; link. The prize for <em>TSTIA<\/em> hasn&#8217;t been decided yet &#8211;\u00a0much hilarity when Alan said it should be renamed &#8220;\u00a310,000 Or Flaps&#8221; but he had to retake that.<\/li>\n<li>The epic lights on the floor don&#8217;t count down the clock anymore. [In fairness, whilst it&#8217;s a cool feature you would rarely see it on screen &#8211; Brig]<\/li>\n<li>Only seven questions and no Final Drop.<\/li>\n<li>It sounds like they might be allowing five-person teams,\u00a0not 100% on this but I seem to remember when Davina did her voiceovers she did one for two parents and three kids.<\/li>\n<li>For survey-based and other subjective questions they now have a &#8216;source&#8217; section on the big screen. Good idea IMO.<\/li>\n<li>The taping I saw turned out to be a contained episode (no players carried over to next show) so it could be slotted in whenever. [Edit: For clarification, this episode in particular, built to promote another show. It&#8217;s unknown as to whether other eps will rollover.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks Matt!<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like <em>The Singer Takes It All<\/em> is on quite a fast turnaround, I hope the technology works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well look, we wait weeks and weeks to have worthwhile things to post and then the last week there&#8217;s been an exciting deluge. It looks as though the Summer of Boring is over. Anyway our good chum Matt (@iMattG5) went on saw one of the recording sessions for the recorded Million Pound Drop series coming\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8042\">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":[803,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-watching-telly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-25I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","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=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}