{"id":2390,"date":"2008-10-28T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T11:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/10\/dead_set\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T11:25:45","slug":"dead_set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/dead_set\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll write more about this perhaps at a later date, but it suitably scary and a thoroughly enjoyable piece of drama. Obviously influenced heavily in style by 28 Days Later, but still excellent. How many times did I find myself saying &#8220;If only&#8230; If only&#8230;&#8221;?<br \/>\nI see that it got a very strong audience of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/oct\/28\/tvratings-television\">1.19m<\/a>. But I do wonder about the sense of E4 not to run a trailer for part 2 or let the audience know that Dead Set is airing every night this week.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/spooks\/credits\/series7_episode1.shtml\">Spooks-like<\/a> lack of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e4.com\/deadset\/credits.html\">credits<\/a>, and the disappearance of the E4 DOG were ordained by the producers. So it&#8217;s quite possible that the no-trailer idea was also theirs. But still&#8230;<br \/>\nE4 scheduled Dead Set in a one hour ten minute slot. I somehow suspect that it&#8217;d actually comfortably fit into an hour slot, but they were packing their biggest show of the night with ads. C4 and its spin-off channels are making a habit of the &#8220;long&#8221; hour. The Neil Morrissey vehicle tonight is scheduled to run 1:05, as is Desperate Housewives tomorrow. This is a show that happily fits in a one hour slot in the US, so as I&#8217;ve said before, we see more ads on these shows that US viewers do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll write more about this perhaps at a later date, but it suitably scary and a thoroughly enjoyable piece of drama. Obviously influenced heavily in style by 28 Days Later, but still excellent. How many times did I find myself saying &#8220;If only&#8230; If only&#8230;&#8221;? I see that it got a very strong audience of [&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\/2390"}],"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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}