{"id":2142,"date":"2008-01-02T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T12:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2008\/01\/squashed_credit_1\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T12:42:23","slug":"squashed_credit_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/squashed_credit_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Squashed Credits Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Charlie Brooker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguide\/tvradio\/story\/0,,2232420,00.html\">television resolutions<\/a> he ends with:<br \/>\n<em>6) Stop squashing end credits and shouting over them<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to keep banging on about this until it happens. Which it won&#8217;t. But I like a fruitless yell at the void, me.<\/em><br \/>\nI suppose I&#8217;ve sort of stopped shouting about this myself, having pretty much given up the ghost. Top-tip for all TV execs reading this &#8211; I flip as soon as you try to plug the next show, credits or not. I&#8217;m not interested. If you won&#8217;t go away, then I will. And that means I miss your trailers. It&#8217;s your own fault. It also means that I missed Boy A on Channel 4 because I never saw a trailer for it.<br \/>\nAnyway, I saw The History Boys on BBC2 the other day, and do you know, they ran the full credits on it, unsqueezed and with no voiceover imploring us to watch &#8220;The Most Annoying People of the Year&#8221; or whatever over on BBC Three. They didn&#8217;t even make that subtle cut you usually get in credits of films between the cast list, and the music listings. They played it all.<br \/>\nThe film was made by the BBC of course, not that this would stop them bastardising their own programming. And the film did end with Rufus Wainwright singing a wonderful version of Bewitched, which would probably make any continuity announcer stop and think before ruining it. But I was pleasantly surpised!<br \/>\nNow if only BBC Four would drop their DOG during their drama programming as they once did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Charlie Brooker&#8217;s television resolutions he ends with: 6) Stop squashing end credits and shouting over them I&#8217;m going to keep banging on about this until it happens. Which it won&#8217;t. But I like a fruitless yell at the void, me. I suppose I&#8217;ve sort of stopped shouting about this myself, having pretty much given [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}