{"id":489569,"date":"2026-03-22T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489569\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:03:08","slug":"channel-4s-attempt-at-the-hunger-games-is-more-like-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489569\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4\u2019s attempt at the Hunger Games is more like tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The press blurb claims it is based on an original idea. Ha! Aside from The Hunger Games it throws in tactical alliance-forming (The Traitors), contestants squealing with delight as they arrive at their \u201cluxury\u201d accommodation (Big Brother, Love Island), stupidly self-aggrandising statements (The Apprentice), results being delivered with dramatic pauses as we learn \u201cthe first player safely going through to the next round is\u2026\u201d (Strictly), and various emotional back stories (every reality show in history).<\/p>\n<p>It takes an age to get to the actual game because the producers are desperate to make the players into characters. \u201cYeah, I love sex,\u201d says Shelley, the aforementioned septuagenarian, who says she was recently chatted up by a 32-year-old. Good for you, Shelley, but what does that have to do with this gameshow? Chris, a marketing director, informs us: \u201cI will always back myself. Put me against Usain Bolt in a race, I\u2019m gonna win that race.\u201d No, Chris, you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The press blurb claims it is based on an original idea. Ha! Aside from The Hunger Games it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24107,1633,5343,96,2839,263,3133,167224,7070,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-489569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-big-brother","tag-channel-4","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-review","tag-television","tag-television-editors-choice","tag-the-traitors","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}