{"id":9639,"date":"2016-12-24T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2016-12-24T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T12:52:07","slug":"show-discussion-blankety-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9639","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Blankety Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blanketyblank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9640\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=9640\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blanketyblank.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,374\" 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=\"blanketyblank\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blanketyblank.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blanketyblank-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blanketyblank-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blanketyblank.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Christmas Eve, 6:30pm,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Walliams returns with an art-deco reboot (well, one-off with a clear view to a series) of <strong>Blankety Blank<\/strong>, no doubt helped by a successful reboot of <em>Match Game<\/em> in the US this year.<\/p>\n<p>Panellists are Joe Lycett, Anne Robinson, The Chuckle Brothers, Lesley Joseph, Louis Walsh and Brooke Vincent (who&#8217;s the only one unknown to me) &#8211; actually it&#8217;s a fun sounding line-up although one that&#8217;s clearly geared towards a slightly older audience. There&#8217;s likely to be a lot of added mucking about to fill the hour, it used to fill a 30-40 minute slot with two games, two supermatches and an effective big prize final and it will have sixty here (the recent <em>Match Game<\/em> had effectively one game and a final as a self-contained 30 minutes times two).<\/p>\n<p>We enjoy <em>Blankety Blank<\/em> and especially enjoyed it on Walliams&#8217; <strong>24 Hour Panel People<\/strong>, but that was mainly down to Paul O&#8217; Grady whinging about how much he didn&#8217;t like hosting it full time\u00a0for about an hour. Whether this will hit those heights remains to be seen. The set looks tiny from the advert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Eve, 6:30pm, ITV David Walliams returns with an art-deco reboot (well, one-off with a clear view to a series) of Blankety Blank, no doubt helped by a successful reboot of Match Game in the US this year. Panellists are Joe Lycett, Anne Robinson, The Chuckle Brothers, Lesley Joseph, Louis Walsh and Brooke Vincent (who&#8217;s\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9639\">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-9639","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-2vt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","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=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}