{"id":9351,"date":"2016-06-28T20:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2016-06-28T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T19:48:43","slug":"sunday-fun-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9351","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun and Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On ABC in the US this last week an exciting new (old?) block of shows, <em>Sunday Fun and Games<\/em>, starring <strong>Celebrity Family Feud<\/strong> (a known entity), <strong>The $100,000 Pyramid\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Match Game<\/strong>, all shows that have been done before (indeed <em>C\/FF<\/em> has been a going concern for a while), <em>Pyramid<\/em> recently on GSN, <em>Match Game<\/em> variously in the 90s (and quite recently on Canadian television, both English language and Quebecois).<\/p>\n<p>They are certainly findable if you know where to look and are willing to put up with pop-up ads (irritatingly if you want to use magic to use ABC Go you need to wait for over a week to watch &#8220;officially&#8221; unless you have a subscriber number).<\/p>\n<p>The new shows are both very good, slick productions very true to the originals, albeit with more whooping. Also an hour of them feels a bit too much, <em>Pyramid<\/em> is tight but repetitive, <em>Match Game<\/em> has a bitty-ness that begins to grate\u00a0three-quarters in. Both feature two full games (and <em>Pyramid<\/em> makes no secret of the fact it&#8217;s just two episodes from two tapings back to back), it&#8217;s almost a shame they don&#8217;t do <em>The Pyramid Match Game Hour\u00a0<\/em>for twice the number of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed Alec Baldwin hosting although the scripted gags felt a bit\u00a0<em>too<\/em> scripted. Michael Strahan was confident, if a bit blandly competent. The sets terrific &#8211; loved the trilon screens on the <em>Pyramid<\/em>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Everything seemed to do fairly well, it remains to be seen if anyone will try anything like this over here, although with ITV apparently resting many of their remade hits maybe now is not the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On ABC in the US this last week an exciting new (old?) block of shows, Sunday Fun and Games, starring Celebrity Family Feud (a known entity), The $100,000 Pyramid\u00a0and Match Game, all shows that have been done before (indeed C\/FF has been a going concern for a while), Pyramid recently on GSN, Match Game variously\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9351\">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-9351","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-2qP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","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=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}