{"id":595,"date":"2004-02-19T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/02\/ratings_madness\/"},"modified":"2004-02-19T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T16:07:33","slug":"ratings_madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/ratings_madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/overnights\/story\/0,7965,1151764,00.html\">This kind of story<\/a> really annoys me. The BBC put on something slightly more challenging than the heap of manure that is Footballers&#8217; Wives, and they get attacked from all sides. Why should a drama that&#8217;s slightly more demanding be moved to BBC2. I really dislike this &#8220;move a  show after two episodes&#8221; nonsense that&#8217;s taken over UK television.<br \/>\nIf we&#8217;re only to have drama series at the level of US network television, then that&#8217;s the way to go. If we want something better then we have to take chances in primetime with more demanding fare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kind of story really annoys me. The BBC put on something slightly more challenging than the heap of manure that is Footballers&#8217; Wives, and they get attacked from all sides. Why should a drama that&#8217;s slightly more demanding be moved to BBC2. I really dislike this &#8220;move a show after two episodes&#8221; nonsense that&#8217;s [&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\/595"}],"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=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}