{"id":301,"date":"2012-02-14T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=301"},"modified":"2012-02-14T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:28:21","slug":"the-bbcs-american-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"The BBC&#8217;s American Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-bbc-worldwide-productions-20120214,0,7217158.story\" target=\"_blank\">As this LA Times article explains<\/a>, BBC Worldwide has an American branch, and it&#8217;s focused on doing US remakes of British shows, like <em>Top Gear<\/em>. This line in particular stood out: &#8220;The company also is mulling a <em>Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0feature film that could catapult the BBC&#8217;s long-running TV science fiction franchise to even greater heights.&#8221; The article also mentions how commercial ventures like this have become more important as the license fee declines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this LA Times article explains, BBC Worldwide has an American branch, and it&#8217;s focused on doing US remakes of British shows, like Top Gear. This line in particular stood out: &#8220;The company also is mulling a Doctor Who\u00a0feature film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}