{"id":600,"date":"2009-05-23T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-05-23T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T00:43:35","slug":"making-content-for-everyone-is-making-content-for-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/05\/23\/making-content-for-everyone-is-making-content-for-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"making content for everyone is making content for no one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy Franklin in The New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I was puzzled by how a show that\u2019s such a nothing even got made. It turns out that \u201cMental\u201d is Fox\u2019s first co-production with international partners in an effort to develop and package series for both the United States and the world market, and shoot them outside the U.S. in order to save money. \u201cMental\u201d was filmed in Bogot\u00e1, in Fox\u2019s Colombia studios. It has already been sold to three dozen other countries. Beyond the reduced cost (and \u201cMental\u201d certainly does look cheap), it\u2019s easy to see why this production method has appeal. Such a generic show, one with few complications, with no sense of place and a bland personality, can be slotted into just about any programming hole until something else comes along. Creatively speaking, this system has the advantage of allowing producers to develop a show to their own satisfaction, without the networks\u2019 meddling. But no such blossoming took place with \u201cMental\u201d; it\u2019s an artificial flower that can be shipped all over the world without dying, because it was never alive in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Franklin in The New Yorker: I was puzzled by how a show that\u2019s such a nothing even got made. It turns out that \u201cMental\u201d is Fox\u2019s first co-production with international partners in an effort to develop and package series for both the United States and the world market, and shoot them outside the U.S….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}