{"id":8766,"date":"2015-07-28T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2015-07-28T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:12:33","slug":"show-discussion-taskmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8766","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Taskmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"taskmaster\"<\/a>Tuesdays, 10pm,<\/strong>
\nDave<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greg Davies sets absurd tasks and challenges to five comedians whilst Alex Horne assists and keeps score. They’re playing for each other’s prized possessions.<\/p>\n

Likely to err more on the side of comedy than game, but it also sounds like The Sort Of Thing We Might Like so what frankly are you going to do about it? It sounds likely to appeal to the sorts of you who may remember We Need Answers<\/strong> on BBC4 a while back, and Horne has suggested in interviews that The Crystal Maze<\/strong> and The Cube<\/strong> are inspirations – if it’s an hour’s worth of Shooting Stars<\/em>-esque endgames, I think I can get along\u00a0with that (tasks suggested to have come up so far include “eating a watermelon as fast as possible” and “painting a horse whilst riding a horse”).<\/p>\n

Similarly to We Need Answers<\/em> it was borne out of one of Horne’s Edinburgh Fringe shows, and it’s becoming increasingly apparent he seems to understand the genre pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesdays, 10pm, Dave Greg Davies sets absurd tasks and challenges to five comedians whilst Alex Horne assists and keeps score. They’re playing for each other’s prized possessions. Likely to err more on the side of comedy than game, but it also sounds like The Sort Of Thing We Might Like so what frankly are you\u2026 Read More »<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2ho","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","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=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}