{"id":8856,"date":"2015-10-01T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:45:58","slug":"show-discussion-the-almost-impossible-gameshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8856","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: The Almost Impossible Gameshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/almostimpossible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8857\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=8857\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/almostimpossible.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"320,180\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"almostimpossible\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/almostimpossible.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8857\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/almostimpossible.jpg\" alt=\"almostimpossible\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/almostimpossible.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/almostimpossible-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Thursday, 9pm,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITV2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ten contestants given fifty lives each to complete five very difficult challenges, whilst &#8220;hilarious commentary from Irish comedy duo The Rubberbandits&#8221; is promised.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a <em>very<\/em> lo-fi take on the slapstick physical comedy game, and we do have something to compare it to &#8211; we wrote a thing about the German show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8786\"><strong>Crash Games<\/strong> here<\/a>\u00a0which is the same show but with a slightly different pairs-based format. I quite liked its sense of the absurd.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had it suggested to us that the commentary is quite similar to <em>Come Dine With Me<\/em>. Will it work? We shall see.<\/p>\n<p><b>Edit:\u00a0<\/b>An official source\u00a0clarifies the show&#8217;s origins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We made the pilot of <em>Almost Impossible<\/em> in August 2013, for Comedy Central. While they were deciding whether to commission it or not, the pilot was shown to the whole international Endemol group. Endemol Germany were very keen on the idea, but couldn\u2019t pitch it until we had the option back from Comedy Central. So rather than wait, they created an idea \u2018inspired\u2019 by it&#8230; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So similar DNA but actually a different show. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, 9pm, ITV2 Ten contestants given fifty lives each to complete five very difficult challenges, whilst &#8220;hilarious commentary from Irish comedy duo The Rubberbandits&#8221; is promised. 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