{"id":9825,"date":"2017-02-07T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2017-02-07T13:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:17:50","slug":"some-quizmania-for-no-discernable-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9825","title":{"rendered":"Some Quizmania, for no discernable reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For no discernable reason last night I found myself watching various clips of late night viewer participation show <strong>Quizmania<\/strong>, from back in the day when these channels were all the rage. Incredibly this is a decade old now, and I was surprised to discover <em>QM<\/em> actually only lasted 16 months.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t condone the business model but my love of live television and low-rent puzzles meant I could watch things like this for hours at a time &#8211; crikey, the amount of hours I put into watching <em>Quiz TV<\/em> with Russ from Scooch, Caryl Varley et al. <em>Quizmania<\/em> was probably the only one to my knowledge that had a <strong>Big Breakfast<\/strong>-esque sense of freewheeling fun to the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway from Greggle&#8217;s Youtube Channel here&#8217;s a retrospective which also features some very rude words if you like that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zuysEgjGmRM\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For no discernable reason last night I found myself watching various clips of late night viewer participation show Quizmania, from back in the day when these channels were all the rage. Incredibly this is a decade old now, and I was surprised to discover QM actually only lasted 16 months. I can&#8217;t condone the business\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9825\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9825","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-2yt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","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=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}