{"id":8099,"date":"2014-08-07T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2014-08-07T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:23:48","slug":"outside-of-the-chase-why-is-itv-so-wet-at-5pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8099","title":{"rendered":"Outside of The Chase, why is ITV so *wet* at 5pm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean it doesn’t feel like The Chase<\/strong> formula – be pacey and have a bit of personality and chutzpah should be *that* difficult to recreate and is obviously something that the ITV 5pm crowd like. So why the Summer replacements never do anything like it is beyond me. What is the point of trying to out Pointless Pointless<\/strong>? There’s already a perfectly good Pointless<\/em> and it gets stronger every time the counter programming is rubbish.<\/p>\n

And so we come to Gift Wrapped<\/strong><\/a> (don’t click on that link before August 12th by the way or you’ll go to prison) with Ruth and Eamonn starting after the 21st Question<\/strong>‘s run for a fortnight which sounds like classic<\/em> 12 Yard, with all the connotations that implies.<\/p>\n

Why not try something aggressively entertaining?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Idiotest<\/strong> starts on GSN in the US next Tuesday. It’s either going to be great or get very tiresome very quickly, and I’m not sure which it is.<\/p>\n