{"id":467,"date":"2012-03-13T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=467"},"modified":"2012-03-13T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:43:45","slug":"did-nbc-drop-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Did NBC drop the ball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting article from The Philadelphia Inquirer about NBC potentially dropping the ball by not picking up <em>Downton Abbey <\/em>to run on the network. Unfortunately, it only really sort of grazes over everything, beginning a few interesting threads of thought without really delving into them, but it has some good quotes and info about NBCUniversal to add to our discussions of whether or not it would have worked. The article seems to blame the previous NBC administration for not picking it up and there is a brief mention that short-run series like <em>Downton <\/em>don&#8217;t really work on American TV, though it never really discusses how\/why NBC might have been able to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2012-03-11\/business\/31145416_1_nbc-universal-downton-abbey-current-nbc-executives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting article from The Philadelphia Inquirer about NBC potentially dropping the ball by not picking up Downton Abbey to run on the network. Unfortunately, it only really sort of grazes over everything, beginning a few interesting threads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=467\">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-467","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\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}