{"id":845,"date":"2010-03-09T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T09:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=845"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T09:39:58","slug":"things-that-were-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Things That Were On Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <strong>Sport Relief Does We Are the Champions<\/strong> is a bit limp. For whatever reason they&#8217;ve decided to do it in a bit of a vaccum (one of the facilities at Ponds Forge), without loads of\u00a0people cheering the teams on the show does rather lose its sense of occasion\u00a0and fun. Games retain bonus scoring elements of the original (good) but if I&#8217;m being honest, the various obstacle courses aren&#8217;t convoluted enough (bad). Paddy MacGuinness spends his time making references that will go over the kids&#8217; heads that aren&#8217;t all that funny for adults either, celebrity sports coaches don&#8217;t really add very much (other than an ability to look really uncomfortable reading off cue cards), limpness of re-recorded iconic theme sums up limpness of remake, really. It will be here all week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pointless<\/strong> changes seem amusingly pointless, although doubtless we&#8217;ll eventually get over them. I don&#8217;t get why a show whose entire premise was predicated on coming up with obscure answers off your own back\u00a0has now mainly changed to trying to predict which of several answers the public is least likely to come up with, not so much pointless knowledge as educated guesswork. The trivia element is why the show was liked!\u00a0In fact I don&#8217;t think I like <em>any<\/em> changes the show has made, the flow and pacing\u00a0of the show seems very off and I hate the new large square display screen.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Sport Relief Does We Are the Champions is a bit limp. For whatever reason they&#8217;ve decided to do it in a bit of a vaccum (one of the facilities at Ponds Forge), without loads of\u00a0people cheering the teams on the show does rather lose its sense of occasion\u00a0and fun. Games retain bonus scoring elements\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=845\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-dD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}