{"id":6763,"date":"2011-10-08T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2011-10-08T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:45:57","slug":"two-post-wire-comedy-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6763","title":{"rendered":"Two Post-Wire Comedy Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of TV shows I watched after finishing <em>The Wire<\/em> but before starting <em>The Prisoner<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Time Trumpet<\/em> (2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those stupid look-back-at-a-certain-year half-hour entertainment-news shows &#8211; but set in the distant future, &#8220;looking back&#8221; into our near future, and created by Armando Iannucci.  Brilliant.  Talking-head interviews with Charlotte Church, Tony Blair, and &#8220;an increasingly erratic Tom Cruise.&#8221;  Surprisingly good visual effects throughout.  Highly enjoyable, even to a non-Brit like myself who missed more than half the references.  An IMDB reviewer warns that it&#8217;s &#8220;an enquired taste.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look, Dean Learner!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/timetrumpet.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Human Giant<\/em> season 2 (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What a great show.  I miss it already.<\/p>\n<p>Huebel is on <em>Childrens Hospital<\/em> now, Scheer on <em>NTSF:SD:SUV<\/em> and <em>The League<\/em>, and co-creator Jason Woliner (who was on <em>Shining Time Station<\/em> as a kid) on <em>Players<\/em> and <em>Eagleheart<\/em>.  Must watch all of these.<\/p>\n<p>Look, Omar!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/humangiant2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of TV shows I watched after finishing The Wire but before starting The Prisoner&#8230; Time Trumpet (2006) It&#8217;s one of those stupid look-back-at-a-certain-year half-hour entertainment-news shows &#8211; but set in the distant future, &#8220;looking back&#8221; into our near future, and created by Armando Iannucci. Brilliant. Talking-head interviews with Charlotte Church, Tony Blair, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[920,1103,52],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-armando-iannucci","tag-aziz-ansari","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}