{"id":9739,"date":"2017-01-08T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2017-01-08T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:16:03","slug":"show-discussion-the-big-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9739","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: The Big Spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bigspell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9740\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=9740\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bigspell.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,281\" 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=\"bigspell\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bigspell.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bigspell-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bigspell-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bigspell.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sundays, 5pm,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sky One<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join Sue Perkins, Moira Stewart and Joe Lycett as twenty kids vie across eight episodes in spelling-based challenges in order to become champion.<\/p>\n<p>The show is based on Endemol&#8217;s <strong>Spelling Star<\/strong> format which has had some success as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Australian_Spelling_Bee\"><strong>The Great Australian Spelling Bee<\/strong><\/a> on the Ten Network in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Spelling Bee formats were all the rage about ten years ago (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukgameshows.com\/ukgs\/Hard_Spell\"><strong>Hard Spell<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukgameshows.com\/ukgs\/Spelling_Bee_(2)\">Spelling Bee<\/a><\/strong>) and then they just sort of fell off the face of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid we forgot this was on until halfway though episode one, but if you watched it or caught up with it let us know what you thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundays, 5pm, Sky One Join Sue Perkins, Moira Stewart and Joe Lycett as twenty kids vie across eight episodes in spelling-based challenges in order to become champion. The show is based on Endemol&#8217;s Spelling Star format which has had some success as The Great Australian Spelling Bee on the Ten Network in Australia. Spelling Bee\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9739\">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":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9739","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-2x5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}