{"id":1151,"date":"2005-06-20T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T09:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/06\/soaked_tom_crui\/"},"modified":"2005-06-20T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T09:07:18","slug":"soaked_tom_crui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/soaked_tom_crui\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaked Tom Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So if you were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uip.co.uk\/\">UIP<\/a>, what &#8220;sanctions&#8221; would you be placing on Channel 4 right now after <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/4107922.stm\">soaking<\/a> Tom Cruise at a premiere last night?<br \/>\nHow about pulling advertising for a start, and then withdrawing access to stars for their programming? That might hurt a bit.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure that whatever this new programme is, it&#8217;s enormously witty, but as a broadcaster, Channel 4 are going to have to be careful of having their name and reputation ruined by one production company working on their behalf. I was always surprised years ago that the BBC let &#8220;Dennis Pennis&#8221; use their name on microphones when he was chasing stars for him to verbally abuse. I suspect that it will have been one of the reasons that the show didn&#8217;t last too long.<br \/>\nOf course squirting someone with water is funny. But you probably wouldn&#8217;t see the funny side if you were going into a business presentation, or were being married. And where do we go from there? Eggs? Paint?<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t prosecute, then you&#8217;re effectively encouraging this kind of behaviour in the future, with the stakes being raised each time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if you were UIP, what &#8220;sanctions&#8221; would you be placing on Channel 4 right now after soaking Tom Cruise at a premiere last night? How about pulling advertising for a start, and then withdrawing access to stars for their programming? That might hurt a bit. I&#8217;m sure that whatever this new programme is, it&#8217;s [&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\/1151"}],"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=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}