{"id":2055,"date":"2007-09-03T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/09\/scifi_tv_news\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T17:45:02","slug":"scifi_tv_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/scifi_tv_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi TV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we get two sets of interesting pieces of news today.<br \/>\nFirst of all, after a significant amount of rumour regarding the future of Doctor Who, and David Tennant in particular, the Beeb has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2007\/09_september\/03\/who.shtml\">announced<\/a> that 2009 won&#8217;t see series five. Instead there&#8217;ll be three specials. This isn&#8217;t surprising given that Tennant is now committed to an extended run in the RSC in the latter part of next year at a time when he would be filming the next series.<br \/>\nSeries five will be shot in 2009 for a 2010 airing. If you read the Mediaguardian <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/organgrinder\/2007\/09\/doctor_who_no_fifth_series_til.html\">piece<\/a> you&#8217;d think that this absolutely means that Tennant and Exec Producer are imminently leaving the show. It doesn&#8217;t though, does it? It means that they&#8217;re likely to be with through to the three specials.<br \/>\nMeanwhile BBC 2 has managed to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,2161674,00.html\">deal<\/a> that&#8217;ll keep Heroes airing on it for the series&#8217; life. Series one has aired on the Sci-Fi channel with BBC 2 only getting rights to air it after that initial run. From series two onwards, BBC 2 has exclusive rights. And now they&#8217;ve done a deal that sees the series staying with the channel at a pre-agreed price. This isn&#8217;t a bad deal to do really, since it prevents Sky One or some other competitor coming in and snapping up rights &#8211; q.v. Lost, 24 and Prison Break. I believe that Five did something similar with the CSI franchise very early on.<br \/>\nNot that there&#8217;s any guarantee just yet that Heroes will even make it to series three. It&#8217;s unlikely in the extreme that it gets cancelled anytime soon, but never put anything past a US network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we get two sets of interesting pieces of news today. First of all, after a significant amount of rumour regarding the future of Doctor Who, and David Tennant in particular, the Beeb has announced that 2009 won&#8217;t see series five. Instead there&#8217;ll be three specials. This isn&#8217;t surprising given that Tennant is now committed [&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\/2055"}],"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=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}