{"id":802,"date":"2004-08-19T01:56:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/08\/the_block_annex\/"},"modified":"2004-08-19T01:56:30","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T01:56:30","slug":"the_block_annex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/the_block_annex\/","title":{"rendered":"The Block Annexed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000845.html\">predicted<\/a>, The Block has suffered the same fate as Making Waves and been axed from primetime by ITV. Not unsurprising given that it&#8217;s a daytime format dressed up in primetime gladrags.<br \/>\nIn brief, from what I can tell, several pairs of contestants are given identical flats to do up on fixed budgets. Those that do the best when the flats are sold win a big prize. Strangely, no-one&#8217;s interested in it, preferring to watch syncronized diving on the BBC&#8217;s Olympics coverage. More of which anon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, The Block has suffered the same fate as Making Waves and been axed from primetime by ITV. Not unsurprising given that it&#8217;s a daytime format dressed up in primetime gladrags. In brief, from what I can tell, several pairs of contestants are given identical flats to do up on fixed budgets. Those that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}