{"id":8346,"date":"2015-01-04T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2015-01-04T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:36:07","slug":"its-new-season-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8346","title":{"rendered":"It’s New Season Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright, back to work everyone. But for those who won’t\/don’t\/can’t\/have a TiVo, television is all new this week. NEW! Pointless<\/strong>. NEW! Only Connect. <\/strong>But more dramatically on ITV NEW! Judge Rinder<\/strong>, NEW! Tipping Point\u00a0<\/strong>(with NEW! multiplier counter feature, if our understanding is correct), and NEW! The Chase<\/strong>. Also NEW! and nestled rather unfortunately between Tipping Point<\/em> and The Chase<\/em> is Fat Pets\u00a0<\/strong>which will likely do quite badly (if it looks like filler it will rate like filler), does Tipping Point<\/em> a disservice by moving it back to 3pm and hurting The Chase<\/em> as likely a poor lead-in (it is ratings fact that it performs\u00a0better with Tipping Point<\/em> previous). Nice one.<\/p>\n

It has been pointed out that this indeed is a filler before Mel and Sue’s new chatshow fills the slot. Ten-fifteen years ago, if you had said that Mel and Sue would be fronting the highest rated show on television people would have said you were mad, and yet with The Great British Bakeoff<\/strong> precisely that has happened, so you can see why ITV have jumped at the chance at Light Lunch<\/em> redux. Watch the numbers for that very closely, popular chat shows are quite difficult to pull off and being sandwiched between two quizzes might not be the best place for it. We will see!<\/p>\n

Keep voting in our poll!<\/a><\/p>\n

Also thanks to CeletheRef for linking to the Chilean version of Avanti un Altro<\/strong> the other day. Who could have predicted that of all the international versions of the show we’ve seen, it’s the formatting powerhouse of Chile that seems to have adapted it the best? We will always really like the Italian show with its heavy emphasis on being aggressively entertaining and stand by the idea that a UK version could still be very big. However we would like to think that a daytime adaptation based on the lower-key Chilean model could still go down quite well:<\/p>\n