{"id":142,"date":"2002-11-18T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-18T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/11\/new_bbc_channel\/"},"modified":"2002-11-18T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-18T18:59:00","slug":"new_bbc_channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/new_bbc_channel\/","title":{"rendered":"New BBC Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the BBC have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/2489737.stm\">announced<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcthree\/pr.shtml\">BBC Three<\/a> is launching on February 9 next year. I really do hope that they change tack a bit from the current BBC Choice.  &#8220;Tack&#8221; is the right word. The quote from Stuart Murphy on the BBC News website story is encouraging, but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see.  At the very least I hope they reduce the number of absurd DOGs sprinkled across the channel (&#8220;New&#8221; etc).  And also the stupid attempts at keeping you watching by splashing text in the middle of the previous programme &#8211; something ITV1 have sadly started doing.  And we really want fewer programmes about Jordan and her ilk.<br \/>\nOne of the BBC&#8217;s mooted ideas is to show Eastenders <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,7493,834861,00.html\">a night early<\/a> to encourage viewing.  That will really do the programme no good at all.  It&#8217;s an awful expression but &#8220;water-cooler moments&#8221; still exist for programmes like Eastenders, but if some people at work or school have seen the programme and others haven&#8217;t they&#8217;ll &#8220;dry up&#8221;. I think Channel 4 have seen this (although they won&#8217;t admit it) with programmes like The Sopranos, and even Friends and ER.<br \/>\nBut so that I&#8217;m not completely negative, I am looking forward to Monkey Dust which is said to be from the &#8220;creators of Brass Eye and Blue Jam&#8221; which I take to mean Chris Morris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the BBC have announced that BBC Three is launching on February 9 next year. I really do hope that they change tack a bit from the current BBC Choice. &#8220;Tack&#8221; is the right word. The quote from Stuart Murphy on the BBC News website story is encouraging, but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see. [&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\/142"}],"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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}