{"id":1472,"date":"2006-05-03T13:02:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/05\/the_art_of_doub\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T13:02:15","slug":"the_art_of_doub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/the_art_of_doub\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Doublespeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,1766562,00.html\">note<\/a> that Footballers&#8217; Wives has been axed. Good. But there&#8217;s a great bit of doublespeak in what&#8217;s obviously a re-worked press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Eileen Gallagher, the managing director of Shed Productions, which makes Footballers&#8217; Wives, said the decision to ditch the show had been taken jointly with the ITV director of drama, Nick Elliott.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jointly hey? Yup, I&#8217;m sure Shed were sitting there thinking &#8220;this show has run its course, and if ITV were to ask us for another series, we couldn&#8217;t deliver creatively and would just say no.&#8221; Methinks that it works slightly differently to that.<br \/>\nIn other news, Commander in Chief has been pulled. Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zap2it.com\/tv\/news\/zap-commanderinchiefpulled,0,7217400.story?coll=zap-news-headlines\">here<\/a>. I would, however, disagree with Broadcastnow&#8217;s description of the show as &#8220;controversial&#8221;. No it wasn&#8217;t &#8211; I think a black president on 24 was probably more &#8220;contraversial&#8221; than Geena Davis&#8217; portrayal. And neither is an accurate description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note that Footballers&#8217; Wives has been axed. Good. But there&#8217;s a great bit of doublespeak in what&#8217;s obviously a re-worked press release: Eileen Gallagher, the managing director of Shed Productions, which makes Footballers&#8217; Wives, said the decision to ditch the show had been taken jointly with the ITV director of drama, Nick Elliott. Jointly [&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\/1472"}],"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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}