{"id":8872,"date":"2015-10-08T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:15:45","slug":"dates-for-your-diary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8872","title":{"rendered":"Dates for your Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of shows coming up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great news for fans of mid three-figure prizes and rubbish jeopardy in the guise of strategy, the surprise second\u00a0series of <strong>The Edge<\/strong> starts Monday now fronted by The Gabster herself Gabby Logan. Format tweaks are promised (thank goodness) and it looks like there are new arrows on the set background. A Show Discussion post will go up for it on Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8507\">you can read the thread for series one here if you want<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The following Monday (that&#8217;s the 19th) <strong>Pick Me!<\/strong> begins on ITV at 3pm, upcoming talent Stephen Mulhern fronts a game of hard questions, comedy costumes and comedy bluffing. Will this be a bit too in your face for an audience used to <strong>Tipping Point<\/strong>? We shall see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news Challenge have bought the rights to <strong>The Million Pound Drop<\/strong> series 1-3 &#8211; that&#8217;s probably going to require quite a bit of editing to get rid of all the &#8216;look how live we are stuff&#8217; like the clock and references to people playing along with the app. Still, you can thrill at how slow the first series felt all over again, and at that bit where a couple get to the final question with over half a million.<\/p>\n<p>There are two shows on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sroaudiences.com\">SRO Audiences<\/a> looking for contestants that have pretty much exactly the same blurb: <strong>For What It&#8217;s Worth<\/strong> with Fern Britton and <strong>Masterpiece<\/strong> with Alan Titchmarsh. One&#8217;s BBC, one&#8217;s ITV. It&#8217;s uncanny. If you like antiques and collectables (it sounds like the BBC one has a general knowledge element as well) why not try and get on both?<\/p>\n<p>Finally an episode of Celebrity Squares from 1977 has turned up on Youtube look:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDdlKgRz938\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of shows coming up: Great news for fans of mid three-figure prizes and rubbish jeopardy in the guise of strategy, the surprise second\u00a0series of The Edge starts Monday now fronted by The Gabster herself Gabby Logan. Format tweaks are promised (thank goodness) and it looks like there are new arrows on the set\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8872\">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-8872","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-2j6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","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=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}