{"id":8535,"date":"2015-04-08T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2015-04-08T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:11:39","slug":"ninja-warrior-starts-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8535","title":{"rendered":"Ninja Warrior starts on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ninja_warrior_logo\"<\/a>This starts on Saturday and I’m quite interested to see how they’ve formatted it – it’s eight episodes, and with 250 contestants to get through I expect we’re going to see the same Stage 1 course for several weeks and I’m not sure how that’s going to play out (if I recall correctly the original Sasuke<\/strong>\u00a0only started with 100, the Japanese broadcast gets it all done in three hours, the US\/UK edits on Challenge get it all done in two\/three half hour episodes). It looks sounds like the UK show will be geared towards finding a winner, whereas it was perfectly possible for there to be no winner in the Japanese show.<\/p>\n

It looks a bit weird indoors, although at least they’ve kept the Mount Midoriyama name (if only for the final stage, quite cleverly alluded to in the show’s logo).<\/p>\n

I reckoned they should have named the set Manc Midoriyama, but there we are. Here is a promo, it’s good to see that unlike Wipeout<\/strong>, you don’t need a little man to fix it so people fall in the water, most people do that anyway, it’s OK to be impressed occasionally:<\/p>\n