{"id":564,"date":"2012-03-29T21:49:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=564"},"modified":"2012-03-29T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T01:50:49","slug":"us-producer-makes-uk-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"US Producer Makes UK Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/article\/television\/paul-feig-puts-together-a-fake-talk-show-for-the-uk\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting quote in here<\/a> from Paul Feig, who you may know as the creator of <em>Freaks and Geeks<\/em> and director of <em>Bridesmaids<\/em>, and who is creating a mock-talk show comedy with American hosts for Sky Atlantic after it got rejected by Showtime: &#8220;Feig theorized to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/03\/bridesmaids-helmer-paul-feig-behind-uk-series-ronna-beverly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>\u00a0that the reason it&#8217;s resonated more with UK networks is that \u201cBritish audiences responded to these overbearing American characters, and the show is Ab Fab meets everyone\u2019s obnoxious parents who ask horrifying questions.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting quote in here from Paul Feig, who you may know as the creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids, and who is creating a mock-talk show comedy with American hosts for Sky Atlantic after it got rejected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=564\">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-564","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\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}