{"id":846,"date":"2008-03-10T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2008-03-10T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:27:00","slug":"writing-about-tv-the-pre-download-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/03\/writing-about-tv-the-pre-download-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing about TV &#8211; the pre-download era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>elevision commissioning. How hard can it be? Roll up, buy a series, put it on TV. That was before you could download the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Writing about TV is more difficult. But here is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/mar\/09\/channel4.itv\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Will Hutton<\/span><\/a> conjuring up the pre-download era:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every British television executive would love to have commissioned the American series <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Mad Men<\/span>. With compelling accuracy, it transports you back to the advertising world of Manhattan in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The second episode is on BBC4 tonight. It hits every sweet spot &#8211; receptive audiences, buzz and critical acclaim. And despite being deeply American, it will enrich our culture, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will thinks this is public service broadcasting. Say Will &#8211; what if they let you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amctv.com\/originals\/madmen\/\">download the show<\/a> on the interWeb? D\u2019ya think?<\/p>\n<p>I know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Television commissioning. How hard can it be? Roll up, buy a series, put it on TV. That was before you could download the stuff. Writing about TV is more difficult. But here is Will Hutton conjuring up the pre-download era: Every British television executive would love to have commissioned the American series Mad Men. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[289,61],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-online","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}