{"id":8046,"date":"2014-06-22T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T19:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2014-06-22T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T19:32:49","slug":"a-question-of-sport-super-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8046","title":{"rendered":"A Question of Sport: Super Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this this afternoon, I mentioned it briefly on Twitter, I briefly mention those things again here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Needs better chemistry between the regulars.<\/li>\n<li>Needs to be funnier.<\/li>\n<li>Needs to drop the <strong>Question of Sport<\/strong> branding, it doesn&#8217;t help either the main show or this spin-off &#8211; in fact just calling it <strong>Super Saturday<\/strong> and not limiting to sport might be the better idea.<\/li>\n<li>It was slightly baffling how Matt&#8217;s team were on the left of the screen on the sofas and on the score graphic, but on the right on the challenges. <\/li>\n<li>Some halfway decent ideas in fairness, although after setting up <em>Top Gear<\/em> style establishing shots in the OBs, they bottle it completely, direction is functional rather than interesting or outstanding.<\/li>\n<li>Yeah yeah, <strong>A League of Their Own<\/strong>. <em>ALOTO<\/em> certainly didn&#8217;t invent sporting challenges in a quiz (actually this has very little quiz content), but it certainly ran with the idea the furthest.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not awful, but it does feel rather unnecessary, and rather bafflingly both too loose AND not loose enough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this this afternoon, I mentioned it briefly on Twitter, I briefly mention those things again here: Needs better chemistry between the regulars. Needs to be funnier. Needs to drop the Question of Sport branding, it doesn&#8217;t help either the main show or this spin-off &#8211; in fact just calling it Super Saturday and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8046\">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":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-25M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","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=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}