{"id":251,"date":"2006-08-27T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/27\/if-you-like-good-television\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T03:50:15","slug":"if-you-like-good-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/27\/if-you-like-good-television\/","title":{"rendered":"If you like <i>good<\/i> television&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May I recommend the upcoming <i>Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Mondays starting Sept. 18 on NBC; if you have Netflix, you can get the pilot now on DVD, as we did.<\/p>\n<p>The show is from the original West Wing team of Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme. Here&#8217;s the setup: A writing\/directing team (Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry) are brought back to save a Saturday-Night-Live-like show &#8211; four years after they were fired from that same show. The chairman of the network, who fired them before, still hates them, but he&#8217;s setting up the new head of programming to fail. It&#8217;s much better than I describe it here, including Judd Hirsch in a meltdown right out of <i>Network<\/i>, and a nice cameo by Ed Asner.<\/p>\n<p>One minor difficulty with the DVD: Chris and I are both somewhat dependent on closed-captioning, and this preview DVD isn&#8217;t captioned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May I recommend the upcoming Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip? Mondays starting Sept. 18 on NBC; if you have Netflix, you can get the pilot now on DVD, as we did. The show is from the original West Wing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/27\/if-you-like-good-television\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}