{"id":1854,"date":"2005-12-13T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T09:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2005-12-13T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T09:44:17","slug":"the-tv-learning-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1854","title":{"rendered":"The TV Learning Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s an interesting little post from my morning&#8217;s readings: <a title=\"The Five: Shows that got much better after the first season - TV Squad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2005\/12\/12\/the-five-shows-that-got-much-better-after-the-first-season\/\">TYSquad&#8217;s top five shows that got much better after the first season.<\/a>  Their list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Seinfeld<\/li>\n<li>Friends<\/li>\n<li>The Odd Couple<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/li>\n<li>The Simpsons<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The list is insightful (swing by for their reasons), but this makes me think even fruther about reversing the current IPTV model.  Instead of sending a handful of shows out to pasture online, why not finance a whole bunch of shows on an extremely tight budget, distribute them via the iTunes store, and then bring the &#8220;winners&#8221; to broadcast TV?  Let the shows get their first season&#8217;s worth of kinks worked out online and <i>then<\/i> bring them out to play &#150; kind of like drafting from a farm team?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s an interesting little post from my morning&#8217;s readings: TYSquad&#8217;s top five shows that got much better after the first season. Their list: Seinfeld Friends The Odd Couple Star Trek: The Next Generation The Simpsons The list is insightful (swing by for their reasons), but this makes me think even fruther about reversing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmedia","tag-transmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-tU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}