{"id":9456,"date":"2016-09-04T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2016-09-04T21:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T20:55:04","slug":"show-discussion-dara-o-briains-go-8-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9456","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"go8bit\"<\/a>Mondays from September 5th, 10pm,<\/strong>
\nDave<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first episode is currently\u00a0online on UKTV Play.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Edit<\/b>: As promised, this is the post made last Monday bumped up for the television premiere.<\/p>\n

Dave has started a trend recently of putting the first episode of their new series’ up a week before it gets broadcast as a sort of preview. This is both great – get to see new shows early – and aggravating – I’d prefer to have most of the discussion in one place and this splits the audience. So the solution I’ve decided upon is to do this Show Discussion post as normal, and then next Monday when it goes out on “proper” telly I will move the post so it’s top of the front page again. Ingenious and elegant, a bit like me really. I would suggest you take non-Go 8 Bit<\/strong> chat to the post beneath so people can discuss away in this one.<\/p>\n

And so we come to the sort of show Dave does really quite well, get a bunch of celebs and comics together and get them to do something structured they’d probably find fun and film the results. Like Taskmaster,<\/strong><\/a> Go 8 Bit<\/em> is another Edinburgh show that’s travelled and been adapted for television, and also like Taskmaster<\/em> the people who came up with it have been relegated for someone who might be a bit more of an audience draw. In this case Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon<\/a> (for it is they) are regular team captains joined by various celebrity guests to play video games, each episode apparently ending in game played as a real life lifesize version. Because the show has a science and technology bent only Dara O Briain could be drafted in to host.<\/p>\n

We’re excited by the prospect of Ellie Gibson providing the commentary, one of my all-time favourite games writers back in her Eurogamer<\/a> days and now one half of the Scummy Mummies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0I’ve internet known technical bloke King Rob Sedgebeer for probably the best part of twenty years (Christ) and he recommended the show to me years ago so I’m quite pleased for everyone it seems to be coming together.<\/p>\n

But, crucially, is it actually<\/em> any good or is it just internet nerds shouting louder than it actually deserves because it might be a bit “niche” and that’s what they do? Let us know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n

If you enjoy this, you might enjoy\u00a0Arcade Pit<\/strong> which I’ve been getting into lately<\/a>, an internet gameshow about videogames both the knowledge of and playing. If you’re willing to roll with the in-jokes and shouting you might enjoy it as well. It’s quite well made for a homemade thing albeit quite lo-fi, not quite the slickest thing but that’s part of the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mondays from September 5th, 10pm, Dave The first episode is currently\u00a0online on UKTV Play. Edit: As promised, this is the post made last Monday bumped up for the television premiere. Dave has started a trend recently of putting the first episode of their new series’ up a week before it gets broadcast as a sort\u2026 Read More »<\/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-9456","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-2sw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","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=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}