{"id":9550,"date":"2016-11-02T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2016-11-02T22:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T22:01:35","slug":"some-telly-quizzes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9550","title":{"rendered":"Some telly quizzes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were alerted to this on Twitter the other day, somebody has uploaded an episode of the much maligned gritty <strong>Telly Addicts<\/strong> reboot from 1998. Is it actually <em>that<\/em> bad? Probably not in retrospect, its main crime being being a completely different show to the show that people had liked perfectly well enough for the previous ten years, now with lousy unmemorable theme tune.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qof1ecRZe_A\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But delve into the suggestions from that and we hit what is surely peak Paul Ross with UK Gold&#8217;s TV quiz <strong>Telly Stack<\/strong> from 1996. The first round and the final is quite good fun, I find the second round a bit tedious.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ReKzzMcBRQ\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And we still haven&#8217;t finished! Because also for UK Gold here&#8217;s the impossibly cheap <strong>Goldmaster<\/strong> with Mike Read, part <strong>Mastermind<\/strong> specialist subject round, other part lengthy quickfire quiz. Intrigued how Read just refers to the contestant numbers in the buzzer round rather than the contestant&#8217;s actual names.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PyP5Iap1Rqo\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were alerted to this on Twitter the other day, somebody has uploaded an episode of the much maligned gritty Telly Addicts reboot from 1998. Is it actually that bad? Probably not in retrospect, its main crime being being a completely different show to the show that people had liked perfectly well enough for the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9550\">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-9550","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-2u2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550","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=9550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}