{"id":1046,"date":"2005-03-07T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/03\/the_late_editio\/"},"modified":"2005-03-07T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T15:09:50","slug":"the_late_editio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/the_late_editio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Late Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick word on The Late Edition (tickets available) which started last week on BBC Four. An admirable effort hosted by that work-shy Marcus Bridgestock (recently seen or heard in The Now Show, The Museum of Everything, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, Twisted Tales, Brighton Comedy Festival and Think The Unthinkable &#8211; and that is just recently).<br \/>\nWhile aping the news isn&#8217;t exactly a novelty, you do feel that some of the production team may have caught more than a few editions of Jon Stewart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/thedailyshowwithjonstewart\/\">Daily Show<\/a>. Using clips of the news to lace with comedy is a good idea, even if it&#8217;s a little close to BBC Four&#8217;s other recent new series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/guide\/articles\/d\/dontwatchthat_999050113.shtml\">Don&#8217;t Watch That, Watch This<\/a>. They&#8217;ve also got the mix of &#8220;fake&#8221; news commentators and guests, as well as real ones. But it really didn&#8217;t work having an actor playing a pro-fox hunting type questioning a real MP. Still, give the series time to find its legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick word on The Late Edition (tickets available) which started last week on BBC Four. An admirable effort hosted by that work-shy Marcus Bridgestock (recently seen or heard in The Now Show, The Museum of Everything, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, Twisted Tales, Brighton Comedy Festival and Think The Unthinkable &#8211; and that is [&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\/1046"}],"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=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}