{"id":1607,"date":"2007-09-16T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2007-10-06T06:40:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T09:40:24","slug":"the-teletube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"The <strike>Tele<\/strike>Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>y <em>TubeTrek<\/em> started with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/64732\/Theres-no-laugh-track-al-hamdu-lillah\">thread on MetaFilter<\/a> (which disappeared from the frontpage) with links to all the episodes of &#8216;Little Mosque On The Prairie&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/littlemosque\/\">CBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Mosque_on_the_Prairie\">Wikipedia<\/a>). It&#8217;s not an overly funny sitcom: it&#8217;s (at times) preachy and maybe this is the right word, idealistic. The cast is at times flawless, more so than the cast of &#8216;Corner Gas&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Later on, I watched a couple of episodes of Season 2 of &#8216;The IT Crowd&#8217; (you can find them on Google Video). Episode 1 is hilarious, however, having seen last year&#8217;s season finale, I was surprised that it actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/entertainment\/tv\/microsites\/I\/itcrowd\/index.html\">didn&#8217;t follow-through<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Alfons mentioned that he actually liked the 1UP produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/minisite?cId=3145462\">&#8216;1UP Show&#8217;<\/a>, which I haven&#8217;t had time to watch yet. I assume it&#8217;s about games and geeks and they appear to have a popular following in Olde Country too (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.game1.nl\/programmas\/the-1up-show\/\">Dutch link<\/a>, with Dutch subtitling, I think). And it appears that if you&#8217;re into photography, <a href=\"http:\/\/inmotion.magnumphotos.com\/podcasts.aspx\">Magnum Photos has excellent video podcasts<\/a> (once again via Alfons).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My TubeTrek started with this thread on MetaFilter (which disappeared from the frontpage) with links to all the episodes of &#8216;Little Mosque On The Prairie&#8217; (CBC, Wikipedia). It&#8217;s not an overly funny sitcom: it&#8217;s (at times) preachy and maybe this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1607\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8],"tags":[75,74,77,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}