{"id":1637,"date":"2006-08-29T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/love_island_was\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T11:30:03","slug":"love_island_was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/love_island_was\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island Washed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paltry <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/5294220.stm\">3.8m viewers<\/A> for the final should ensure that ITV <em>never again<\/em> brings back [Celebrity] Love Island.<br \/>\nI do look forward to reading Executive Producer <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/global\/natalka_znak.html\">Natalka Znak&#8217;s thoughts<\/A> on the series&#8217; end on the Mediaguardian blog.<br \/>\nPrevious choice titbits from her contributions have included:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/organgrinder\/2006\/07\/post_7.html\">&#8220;We have a great show that is funny and full of real drama.&#8221;<\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/organgrinder\/2006\/08\/love_island_insider_blog.html\">&#8220;All sorts of random people are emailing me from Britain telling me they&#8217;re loving the show and don&#8217;t understand the ratings.&#8221;<\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/organgrinder\/2006\/08\/love_island_insider_we_didnt_b.html\">&#8220;&#8230;we&#8217;ve&#8230; watched the ratings steadily rise&#8221;<\/A><br \/>\nWhat really annoys me is that I quite like the odd Bounty bar now and again, but I feel duty bound not to buy them now because of their sponsorship of this piece of garbage.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good to know that if ITV had just repeated a Bond film for the Bank Holiday, they&#8217;d have got much stronger ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paltry 3.8m viewers for the final should ensure that ITV never again brings back [Celebrity] Love Island. I do look forward to reading Executive Producer Natalka Znak&#8217;s thoughts on the series&#8217; end on the Mediaguardian blog. Previous choice titbits from her contributions have included: &#8220;We have a great show that is funny and full [&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\/1637"}],"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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}