{"id":8724,"date":"2015-06-30T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:43:11","slug":"lets-do-a-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8724","title":{"rendered":"Let’s “do” a round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
Look it’s hot alright?<\/p>\n
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Boom!<\/strong> started in the US last week (you can always tell when someone can’t remember the exact date) on Fox and did pretty badly. If it was a straight port of the Israeli show this would be to be expected (I think it’s a bit boring despite the premise) but it’s been localised by game show supremo Bob Boden and chums and the result is… a bit better – questions don’t go on for ages, the money works differently (I would suggest there’s something not *quite* right with the mega money bomb, gambling half to make four times as much is a no brainer – gambling makes for exciting television but there’s no real decision here), host Tom Papa is pretty good… it’s just like Benchmark<\/strong> in that it’s clever and I can see what it’s doing but I’m ultimately not that bothered by what happens. Still though, get on a VPN and check it out on the Fox site (or indeed other dark magicks you might use). Perhaps the problem is me.<\/li>\n
Family Feud\u00a0<\/strong>under Steve Harvey is now basically the biggest show on television.<\/li>\n
Battlebots<\/strong> is on as well. It’s doing alright. Perhaps someone will try a Robot Wars<\/strong> revival one day what with it being the ORIGINAL and BEST yeah?<\/li>\n
US Millionaire<\/strong> is reverting to a modified money tree and Chris Harrison from The Bachelor<\/em> is going to host and oh God Millionaire<\/em> is so boring and probably should have been cancelled by now.<\/li>\n