{"id":8779,"date":"2015-08-03T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T08:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2015-08-03T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:07:06","slug":"8779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8779","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Freeze Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/freezeout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/freezeout.jpg\" alt=\"freezeout\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>Weekdays, 5pm,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITV1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always known that physics is\u00a0cool and great for games but it&#8217;s only really since <strong>Tipping Point<\/strong> that television makers have tried to tap into this burgeoning branch of science.<\/p>\n<p>The latest show to try not to fail in the <strong>The Chase<\/strong> summer slot is <strong>Freeze Out<\/strong> hosted by Mark Durden-Smith and involves players answering questions and playing variations of shuffleboard on a gigantic circular ice table which has different graphics projected on it each round to create targets.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun idea but just a few alarm bells are ringing, namely because of this from the press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Freeze Out<\/strong> is essentially a brand new sport \u2013 combining accessible questions with a table game of skill, precision and power.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the ever-affable Mark Durden-Smith, and officiated by former Premiership referee Uriah Rennie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing says they understand the lightness of a touch a 5pm quiz requires than suggesting &#8216;hey &#8211; we&#8217;re not <em>just<\/em> a quiz, we&#8217;re a sport!&#8217; and having a premiership referee on hand to officiate, something not seen since Paul &#8220;Durks&#8221; Durkin on <strong>Simply the Best<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also it&#8217;s not helped by <strong>Hello Campers<\/strong> basically tanking at 4pm, although having <em>Tipping Point<\/em> repeats as a lead in might be too much physics for the average viewer. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>The closing date for contestants was just three weeks ago, so this is a super fast turnaround or they&#8217;re hoping to make more very quickly if it takes off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekdays, 5pm, ITV1 We&#8217;ve always known that physics is\u00a0cool and great for games but it&#8217;s only really since Tipping Point that television makers have tried to tap into this burgeoning branch of science. The latest show to try not to fail in the The Chase summer slot is Freeze Out hosted by Mark Durden-Smith and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8779\">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":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-8779","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\/sLcmt-8779","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}