{"id":2524,"date":"2009-03-30T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2009\/03\/the_prisoner_-_1\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:24:27","slug":"the_prisoner_-_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/the_prisoner_-_1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prisoner &#8211; Coming Not So Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast Magazine has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/news\/2009\/03\/first_look_at_new_prisoner_and_triffids.html\">new picture<\/a> of Sir Ian as Number 2 in the ITV\/AMC remake of The Prisoner.<br \/>\nSlightly worryingly, the piece says that AMC is planning on airing it later this year, while ITV is showing it in 2010. Might I suggest that this is a bad idea if ITV wants to avoid rampant piracy?<br \/>\nSimultaneous broadcasts &#8211; or as near to as possible &#8211; is the only way to show this kind of event TV. Not doing that will just reduce the available audience. That&#8217;s especially true with genre programming, and is why Sky One has been showing Battlestar Galactica as near to the US screenings as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast Magazine has a new picture of Sir Ian as Number 2 in the ITV\/AMC remake of The Prisoner. Slightly worryingly, the piece says that AMC is planning on airing it later this year, while ITV is showing it in 2010. Might I suggest that this is a bad idea if ITV wants to avoid [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}