{"id":9644,"date":"2016-12-28T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2016-12-28T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T11:12:50","slug":"show-discussion-pop-quiz-the-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9644","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Pop Quiz – The Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erm, we couldn’t find a clean press release picture for this revival so here’s an 80s classic.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wednesday 28th and January 4th,<\/strong>
\nBBC4, 9:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well this is quite a nice idea. To sort of tie-in with the popularity of 1980s Top Of The Pops<\/em> repeats BBC4 regularly show, a two-off revival of the defining music quiz of the decade, Pop Quiz<\/strong>, once again hosted by DJ, I’m a Celebrity<\/strong> alumni and political songwriter Mike Read and featuring guests who may well have turned up on the original, from the programme blurb, “Guests include Toyah Willcox, Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins), Andy McCluskey (OMD), Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet), Mari Wilson and Leee John (Imagination).”<\/p>\n

The promo we’ve seen suggest they’ve nicked the desks from A Question of Sport<\/strong>, and we’ve actually no idea whether the questions will all be based on 80s music or everything up to today. It’ll be interesting to see if this leads to anything though – whether it’s repeats of the original show to partner TOTP<\/em> or further new episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 28th and January 4th, BBC4, 9:30pm Well this is quite a nice idea. To sort of tie-in with the popularity of 1980s Top Of The Pops repeats BBC4 regularly show, a two-off revival of the defining music quiz of the decade, Pop Quiz, once again hosted by DJ, I’m a Celebrity alumni and political\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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9644","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-2vy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644","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=9644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}