{"id":488,"date":"2005-10-03T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=488"},"modified":"2005-10-03T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:23:00","slug":"on-the-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"On the Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the fall TV season now underway, I thought I&#8217;d take some time to preview some exciting new shows this fall:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lost<\/strong>: A plan with all 307 members of parliament crashes over the Pacific Ocean&#8230;and no one looks for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Desperate House<\/strong>: A Party in power resorts to every possible tactic to hold on to power: canceling opposition days, Cabinet posts for defectors, ignoring non-confidence votes, and pleading for time on National TV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everybody Loves Michaelle<\/strong>: See what wacky hijinx will happen at Rideau Hall this week when a former FLQ member comes for dinner!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law &#038; Order: Sponsorship<\/strong> &#8211; Jean Brault and Chuck Guite stand trial (<em>this show has been postponed until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2005\/10\/03\/guite_brault_trial.html\">spring<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alias<\/strong>: Starring Gurmant Grewal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Apprentice<\/strong>: Every week, 10 Liberal and Tory leadership hopefuls compete at a series of challenges such as taking over riding associations and stacking nomination meetings, for the right to replace their lame duck party leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seinfeld<\/strong>: Paul Martin&#8217;s vision of Canada is explained in this show about nothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everybody Hates Steve<\/strong>: A look inside the Globe &amp; Mail newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Biggest Loser<\/strong>: Joe Clark makes his return to the Canadian airwaves<\/p>\n<p><strong>That 70s Show<\/strong>: A Liberal\/NDP coalition spends like it&#8217;s 1973!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the fall TV season now underway, I thought I&#8217;d take some time to preview some exciting new shows this fall: Lost: A plan with all 307 members of parliament crashes over the Pacific Ocean&#8230;and no one looks for them. Desperate House: A Party in power resorts to every possible tactic to hold on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}