{"id":1768,"date":"2007-01-05T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/01\/tomorrows_world_1\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T17:31:49","slug":"tomorrows_world_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/tomorrows_world_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow&#8217;s World Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000104.html\">&#8211; nearly to the day &#8211;<\/a> and Media Guardian is reporting that Tomorrow&#8217;s World <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,1983693,00.html\">is returning<\/a>.<br \/>\nWell &#8211; sort of.<br \/>\nThe programme itself isn&#8217;t returning &#8211; just elements of it including the title sequence, and, well, the name. Effectively, the brand, then.<br \/>\nThis is better than nothing, but not really that great. We&#8217;re really crying out for a popular-ish science programme; something that can explain to the public what stem cell research is about, or what NASA&#8217;s plans for a moonbase really mean. Programmes like The Gadget Show on Five are fine, but they&#8217;re talking about devices currently on the market. What&#8217;s coming around the corner? What are the issues in science today?<br \/>\nA popular Tomorrow&#8217;s World would also allow Horizon to return to the higher ground from where it has fallen.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2007\/01_january\/05\/tw.shtml\">more<\/a> at the BBC&#8217;s Press Office.<br \/>\nI guess Maggie Philbin impressed after her appearance on It Began With Swap Shop over Christmas. I found that programme both interesting and nauseating in equal amounts, despite being an avid viewer of many of the shows. But I did wonder what had become of her, and why she hasn&#8217;t been on television since (aside from the obvious fact that if you&#8217;re female and over about thirty-five, you&#8217;re over the hill for television presenting seemingly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years on &#8211; nearly to the day &#8211; and Media Guardian is reporting that Tomorrow&#8217;s World is returning. Well &#8211; sort of. The programme itself isn&#8217;t returning &#8211; just elements of it including the title sequence, and, well, the name. Effectively, the brand, then. This is better than nothing, but not really that great. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}