{"id":8840,"date":"2015-09-16T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2015-09-16T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:46:47","slug":"a-load-of-bh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8840","title":{"rendered":"A load of BH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barghunt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8841\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=8841\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barghunt.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"288,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"barghunt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barghunt.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barghunt-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"barghunt\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barghunt-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barghunt.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a>This is quite an interesting story and although it&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/bargain-hunts-iconic-presenter-tim-6451382\">reported by the Mirror<\/a>\u00a0it doesn&#8217;t seem to have picked up much traction. Basically Tim Wonnacott&#8217;s been suspended\u00a0from <strong>Bargain Hunt<\/strong> after an apparent argument with a producer on Friday &#8211; details unknown, an investigation is taking place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bargain Hunt<\/strong> is an absolute daytime monster and has been for about twenty years, usually the biggest show in daytime outside the big 5pm quizzes and regularly getting 30%+ shares (which makes it basically the biggest show on television outside of soaps and <strong>Strictly<\/strong>\/<strong>X Factor<\/strong>. If only schedulers would put it on at 9pm, it would *literally* get 8m viewers nightly). This would not be the first time the show&#8217;s iconic host has parted ways, the series shot to fame under the stewardship of David &#8220;cheap as chips&#8221; Dickinson and became even more popular under Wonnacott. Both very much personality hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Guest hosts (the regular antiques experts, presumably) will be covering the rest of the recording of this series, much like when Wonnacott was training for <strong>Strictly Come Dancing<\/strong>. Who&#8217;d be the next permanant host? I reckon with a bit of sharpening up Anita Manning is just eccentric enough and seems to have a large enough persona to carry it off full time. We&#8217;ll see though.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know the reasons for the suspension, but we will look forward to <em>Wonnacott&#8217;s Win A Cot<\/em> on Amazon Prime in due course. The other question is what will happen to the other shows on the BBC where he acts in an expert or voiceover capacity?<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime we wait for ratings for <strong>Best Time Ever<\/strong> with Neil Patrick Harris, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8836&amp;cpage=1#comment-372232\">the reviews are mixed at best.<\/a>\u00a0On the one hand shows are made for viewers not critics, on the other this sort of thing just doesn&#8217;t seem to go down well in the US (see <strong>Don&#8217;t Forget Your Toothbrush<\/strong>, <strong>My Kinda Town<\/strong> etc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite an interesting story and although it&#8217;s been reported by the Mirror\u00a0it doesn&#8217;t seem to have picked up much traction. Basically Tim Wonnacott&#8217;s been suspended\u00a0from Bargain Hunt after an apparent argument with a producer on Friday &#8211; details unknown, an investigation is taking place. Bargain Hunt is an absolute daytime monster and has\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8840\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8840","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-2iA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","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=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}