{"id":85,"date":"2007-02-09T00:43:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T05:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/85"},"modified":"2017-07-13T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:36:00","slug":"must-see-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/85","title":{"rendered":"Must See TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, set your TiVos.  Sundance is showing all six episodes of Season One of <em>Slings &#038; Arrows<\/em> this Sunday, February 11, from 3pm to 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>This is absolutely Must See TV for Shakespeare fans or theatre folk, and actually some pretty good viewing for everyone else, too.  It&#8217;s a 50-minute comedy\/drama that follows the various personalities in a fictional Canadian Shakespeare Festival as they put together a production of a play over the course of a six-episode season: <em>Hamlet<\/em> in Season One, and <em>Macbeth<\/em> in Season Two.  Season Three starts February 18 at 8pm.  It looks like they&#8217;re going to be doing <em>King Lear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The show isn&#8217;t about the Shakespeare per se, but I have to say that they get the Shakespeare part right.  And when Shakespeare is done right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So check out that marathon on Sunday.  You&#8217;ll be glad you did. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, set your TiVos. Sundance is showing all six episodes of Season One of Slings &#038; Arrows this Sunday, February 11, from 3pm to 8pm. This is absolutely Must See TV for Shakespeare fans or theatre folk, and actually some pretty good viewing for everyone else, too. It&#8217;s a 50-minute comedy\/drama that follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,12,6,58,52,3,34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamlet","category-humor","category-international","category-king-lear","category-macbeth","category-shakespeare","category-slings-arrows","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6184,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}