{"id":2969,"date":"2011-08-24T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2011\/08\/channel_4_and_l\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:05:46","slug":"channel_4_and_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/channel_4_and_l\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 and List Programmes&#8230; Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/003127.html\">Back in April<\/a>, I noted that I thought it was foolish that Jay Hunt had said that Channel 4 would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/mar\/30\/channel-4-list-shows\">no longer<\/a> be making list programmes.<br \/>\nI pointed out that in 2007, Kevin Lygo had said the same thing. And that subsequently, Channel 4 had continued to make list programmes.<br \/>\nMemories are terribly short in the TV commissioning world, especially when you&#8217;re looking for cheap multi-hour programming.<br \/>\nFast forward just five months, and what do we have?<br \/>\nWhy, I do believe it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/stephen-frys-100-greatest-gadgets\">a Channel 4 list programme<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis time around it&#8217;s by Stephen Fry. So that&#8217;s all right then. Perhaps it shouldn&#8217;t even count? Well Fry himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/2011\/08\/24\/palmed-away\/\">likens it<\/a> to other top 100 programmes. So I think it does.<br \/>\nMemories are short in TV. But this is ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, I noted that I thought it was foolish that Jay Hunt had said that Channel 4 would no longer be making list programmes. I pointed out that in 2007, Kevin Lygo had said the same thing. And that subsequently, Channel 4 had continued to make list programmes. Memories are terribly short in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/2969"}],"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=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}