{"id":522,"date":"2008-02-22T08:09:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2008-02-20T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T19:19:03","slug":"hope-it-comes-to-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Hope it Comes to Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigdumbobject.co.uk\/2008\/02\/being-human.html\">Big Dumb Object<\/a> mentions an interesting TV pilot that just aired in the UK on BBC3.  Entitled &#8220;Being Human,&#8221; here&#8217;s the official synopsis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contemporary supernatural drama about George and Mitchell, a pair of perennial outsiders. Working in the anonymous drudgery of the local hospital, they live lives of quiet desperation &#8211; because Mitchell is a vampire and George is a werewolf. Deciding to turn over a new leaf, they move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by Annie, the ghost of a woman killed in mysterious circumstances. As a threesome, they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, bonded by their desire to adopt the lifestyle of their neighbours &#8211; humanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the UK, you can watch it on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0090xff\">BBC iPlayer<\/a>.  If you aren&#8217;t, you get a &#8220;Sorry, this video is only available in the UK&#8221; message.  Poop.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds fun.  Maybe it&#8217;ll show up on BBCAmerica one of these days.  (And I wouldn&#8217;t be terribly surprised if there was a torrent of the pilot available somewhere for the UK-challenged.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Dumb Object mentions an interesting TV pilot that just aired in the UK on BBC3. Entitled &#8220;Being Human,&#8221; here&#8217;s the official synopsis: Contemporary supernatural drama about George and Mitchell, a pair of perennial outsiders. Working in the anonymous drudgery of the local hospital, they live lives of quiet desperation &#8211; because Mitchell is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}