{"id":9508,"date":"2016-10-09T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2016-10-09T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:47:13","slug":"never-had-it-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9508","title":{"rendered":"Never had it so good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world might be in a bit of a state but in the world of gameshow and competitive reality entertainment it&#8217;s probably fair to say that in primetime we&#8217;ve never had it so good. Let us return to the Bother&#8217;s Bar Board of Excitement as we explore the next week or so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday 10th &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9456\">Dara O&#8217; Briain&#8217;s Go 8 Bit<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Last in the series on Dave featuring Jason Manford and Ed Byrne. You can listen to the theme and incidental tunes from compser Liam Tate <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/liamtatecomposer\">on his Soundcloud<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday 11th &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9485\">Taskmaster<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Our current favourite show, <a href=\"http:\/\/uktvplay.uktv.co.uk\/shows\/taskmaster\/watch-online\/?video=5123726986001\">do catch up with it on UKTV Play<\/a> if you missed the first episode last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday 12th &#8211; The Great British Bake Off &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Tu-dorn&#8217;t want to miss this episode, it&#8217;s Tudor week!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday 13th &#8211; The Apprentice or Hunted look these are fine if you like that sort of thing but not actually that exciting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday 14th &#8211; Actually Friday&#8217;s a bit rubbish. Just go out.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday 15th &#8211; Schlag den Star!\u00a0<\/strong>Yes! We will be back commentating over <em>Schlag den Star<\/em> next week so do come and join us. Olympic medallist\u00a0Fabian Hamb\u00fcchen takes on &#8220;cult comedian&#8221;\u00a0B\u00fclent Ceylan. We&#8217;ll have all the news AND the usual experimental quizziness LIVE.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sunday 16th &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Crystal Maze &#8211;<\/strong> It&#8217;s been 21 years and tonight we discover if you can film an episode at the Live Experience with some celebrities and if it&#8217;s still the best show ever.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_9509\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/reboundqcard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9509\" data-attachment-id=\"9509\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=9509\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/reboundqcard.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"380,215\" 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=\"reboundqcard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;#hostholdingaquestioncard&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/reboundqcard.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/reboundqcard-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"#hostholdingaquestioncard\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/reboundqcard-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/reboundqcard.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#hostholdingaquestioncard<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Monday 17th &#8211; Rebound &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Actually this is during the day but we&#8217;ll feature this here because a) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8800\">we quite liked the first series<\/a> and b) here&#8217;s the lovely Sean Fletcher holding a question card. Nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the meantime I want to watch more foreign formats as we&#8217;ve not been doing quite so much of late so if there are shows out there you think I should watch you should definitely let me know. I&#8217;m trying to cut down on Twitter (because it&#8217;s actually not much fun these days\u00a0and the cut-through is actually\u00a0<em>really<\/em> bad, such is its ephemeral nature, and it means I will actually start doing useful things like reading books again)\u00a0but I will still pick up your &#8216;at&#8217; replies and DMs several times on a daily basis so don&#8217;t worry about that.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an episode of <strong>Geh Aufs Ganze!<\/strong> (<em>Go All Out!<\/em> seems to be a translation) that has turned up on Youtube. It&#8217;s the German version of <strong>Let&#8217;s Make a Deal<\/strong> which I used to quite enjoy watching. Quite large prizes for a six-day a week early evening\u00a0show if you consider \u00a31\u00a0would have been worth around 3DM. It&#8217;s easy enough to follow if you don&#8217;t speak the language:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cYquVe8It_8\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world might be in a bit of a state but in the world of gameshow and competitive reality entertainment it&#8217;s probably fair to say that in primetime we&#8217;ve never had it so good. Let us return to the Bother&#8217;s Bar Board of Excitement as we explore the next week or so: Monday 10th &#8211;\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9508\">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":true,"_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-9508","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-2tm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","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=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}