{"id":288,"date":"2003-05-26T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2003-05-26T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/05\/the_year_of_the\/"},"modified":"2003-05-26T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2003-05-26T21:31:19","slug":"the_year_of_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/the_year_of_the\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Sex Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Four showed this <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0142001\">Nigel Kneale play<\/a> last Thursday, and I got around to watching my tape this morning. It followed a documentary about British TV&#8217;s use of the hidden camera &#8211; another in the very good Timeslip series.<br \/>\nThe play has incidentally just come out on DVD, and it&#8217;s especially prescient about where the <i>Big Brothers<\/i> of this world might naturally end up. It starred Leonard Rossiter and a very young Brian Cox, who&#8217;s malicious ways send television on an ever downward spiral.<br \/>\nTwo things occurred to me as I watched it.<br \/>\n1. How did they get away with calling it &#8220;Olympics&#8221; and using the rings, and<br \/>\n2. The idea of continuous audience ratings, with programmes being adjusted accordingly is a fascinating if terrible development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Four showed this Nigel Kneale play last Thursday, and I got around to watching my tape this morning. It followed a documentary about British TV&#8217;s use of the hidden camera &#8211; another in the very good Timeslip series. The play has incidentally just come out on DVD, and it&#8217;s especially prescient about where the [&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\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}