{"id":831,"date":"2010-03-06T23:46:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=831"},"modified":"2010-03-07T21:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:19:22","slug":"board-of-excitement-7th-13th-march-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Board of Excitement 7th &#8211; 13th March 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting lighter outside, but it&#8217;s getting heavy on the Board of Excitement, or something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=355\">The Bother Series of Poker Game 3<\/a><\/strong> (Full Tilt,\u00a02000 GMT\/1500 Eastern, Sunday) &#8211; basically I&#8217;m missing flops and playing really badly, so it&#8217;s just free money. Let&#8217;s hope that no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4flush.com\/online-poker-news\/european-poker-tour-event-robbed-at-gun-point\/4704\/\">German bandits interrupt our game<\/a>\u00a0(thanks to David for the spam-filtered link). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=813\">The page for Game 3 discussion\u00a0is here<\/a>. <strong>Edit: <\/strong>Congratulations to David for winning this, and unbelieveably we <em>were<\/em> attacked by German bandits. Oh man!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maninbox.co.uk\/home\">Man In Box<\/a><\/strong> (All week, The Internet): I&#8217;m sort of not-quite addicted to this, but I am intrigued to see how it will all play out. Will it be break free&#8230; or breakdown?<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amazing Race <\/strong>(CBS, Sunday): The Cowboys are one of\u00a0my favourite teams ever, I think. Although it was quite lucky that the tasks last week basically involved being a cowboy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We Are The Champions <\/strong>(CBBC, 4:30pm, Monday to Friday): Back for Sport Relief and repeated on BBC1 next week. Paddy MacGuiness hosts, swapping &#8216;Take Me Out&#8217; for &#8220;away you go!&#8221; and celebrity coaches are promised.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pointless<\/strong> (BBC2, 4:30pm. Weekdays): The return of last year&#8217;s surprise sleeper hit with Alexander Armstrong and geek hero Richard Osman (presumably). It&#8217;s still 45 minutes, but there is one less couple so I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s going to work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only Connect <\/strong>(BBC4, Monday, 8:30pm): Second quarter-final with the Brasenose Grads versus Tommy Scott And The Hitchikers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Krypton Factor Grand Final<\/strong> (ITV1, 7:30pm, Tuesday) &#8211; Strange things are afoot &#8211; not only are there now proper adverts during the ad break, but it was actually advertised before <strong>Push the Button<\/strong> last night, despite not actually having been advertisied before now and the fact the ratings have consistently dropped over the series. I&#8217;m idly wondering if ITV are considering making a third series off their own back\u00a0this year if Sage drop out. Anyway I was at the final so I know who wins, it&#8217;s a very exciting finish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Survivor <\/strong>(CBS, Thursday): This really has been tremendous so far. Although this weeks looks like another brawling-based challenge which seem to be getting more and more violent, which is increasingly uncomfortable viewing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your Country Needs You<\/strong> (BBC1, 8:30pm, Friday): Yes, it&#8217;s time to vote for whoever is going to sing Pete Waterman&#8217;s Eurovision winning song this year. After last year&#8217;s successful series, this appears to be a one off vote.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solitary 4.0<\/strong> (Fox Reality, Saturday): After a rather lacklustre previous episode, last week&#8217;s was once again tremendous featuring a bust-out of prison challenge (and OF COURSE the final key was hidden in the officer&#8217;s trousers that were hanging up &#8211; very <em>Mole<\/em>-like, which is interesting since US <em>Mole<\/em> had a similar task of its own a long time ago) and the return of the spin-lots-of-times-on-a-chair-until-you-can-take-no-more Challenge, this season with added mini-golf element. What&#8217;s not to like? I confidently predict this episode will be similar to the previous one, but with one less contestant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting lighter outside, but it&#8217;s getting heavy on the Board of Excitement, or something. The Bother Series of Poker Game 3 (Full Tilt,\u00a02000 GMT\/1500 Eastern, Sunday) &#8211; basically I&#8217;m missing flops and playing really badly, so it&#8217;s just free money. Let&#8217;s hope that no German bandits interrupt our game\u00a0(thanks to David for the spam-filtered\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=831\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-excitement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-dp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}