{"id":9431,"date":"2016-08-14T11:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2016-08-14T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:48:48","slug":"shows-we-had-forgotten-about-then-recently-remembered-and-it-turns-out-theyre-pretty-much-all-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9431","title":{"rendered":"Shows we had forgotten about then recently remembered and it turns out they&#8217;re pretty much all on Youtube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember back in the good old days of 2010 we had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1777\">brief love affair with the Canadian show <strong>Mantracker <\/strong><\/a>(&#8220;the <strong>Interceptor<\/strong> your Dad would like&#8221;)? It was on the Extreme Sports Channel, I don&#8217;t know if that still exists, I can&#8217;t be bothered to look it up.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I found myself trying to remember what it was called, then looking it up on Youtube and it turns out\u00a0there&#8217;s loads of episodes on Youtube, here&#8217;s a random one:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oAiAZzvzm0c\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s from Season five, there were seven made (with a different guy for the final series).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <em>Interceptor<\/em>, it occurred to me recently how highly GIFable it would be with the kids if it was around today. I would make some myself but I can&#8217;t be bothered.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of shows we had forgotten about but briefly remembered etc etc it looks like hot on the heels of a reasonably successful <strong>Match Game<\/strong> reboot in the US ITV want to bring back <strong>Blankety Blank<\/strong>, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/cult-gameshow-blankety-blank-set-8625857\">they don&#8217;t have a host in mind for it yet<\/a> (Stephen Mulhern).<\/p>\n<p>Of course the recent <strong>Celebrity Squares<\/strong> revival didn&#8217;t work out too well, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember back in the good old days of 2010 we had a brief love affair with the Canadian show Mantracker (&#8220;the Interceptor your Dad would like&#8221;)? It was on the Extreme Sports Channel, I don&#8217;t know if that still exists, I can&#8217;t be bothered to look it up. Recently I found myself trying\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9431\">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-9431","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-2s7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","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=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}