{"id":9407,"date":"2016-07-24T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2016-07-24T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T09:20:05","slug":"show-discussion-robot-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9407","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Robot Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New_Robot_Wars_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9408\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=9408\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New_Robot_Wars_logo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"316,316\" 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=\"New_Robot_Wars_logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New_Robot_Wars_logo.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New_Robot_Wars_logo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"New_Robot_Wars_logo\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New_Robot_Wars_logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New_Robot_Wars_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/New_Robot_Wars_logo.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Sundays, 8pm,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BBC2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been away for a while but tonight Robot Wars returns promising more <em>story<\/em> and <em>emotion<\/em> than ever before, which really captures the appeal of the original.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m joking of course, people tune in for watching big old robots fight each other. And we&#8217;re not joking when we suggest old, there are teams (and house robots!) here who were part of the original series over a decade ago, and Jonathan Pearce and Dr Noel Sharkey return to commentate and judge ties.<\/p>\n<p>New are hosts Dara O&#8217;Briain (it&#8217;s vaguely science so it&#8217;s Dara!) and new reporter Angela Scanlon,\u00a0Sethu Vijayakumar and Lucy Rogers join the judging line-up and there&#8217;s a new bulletproof arena.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hoping for lots of destruction and not just waiting for a robot to be pushed into The Pit like loads of old battles used to end and got really boring.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this does, the <strong>Battlebots<\/strong> revival started fairly strongly in the US but seems to have tailed off rather by series two. Let us know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundays, 8pm, BBC2 It&#8217;s been away for a while but tonight Robot Wars returns promising more story and emotion than ever before, which really captures the appeal of the original. I&#8217;m joking of course, people tune in for watching big old robots fight each other. And we&#8217;re not joking when we suggest old, there are\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9407\">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-9407","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\/pLcmt-2rJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","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=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}