{"id":23980,"date":"2011-11-22T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T20:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/live-action-booster-gold-on-tv.html"},"modified":"2011-11-23T05:58:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T12:58:05","slug":"live-action-booster-gold-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/live-action-booster-gold-on-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"Live-action Booster Gold on TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has a zillion ways it could go horribly wrong, starting with it airing on Syfy, and continuing with it playing superheroes for yucks. We'll see. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Mark Means<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For a second, I got excited about this….then saw it was being done by The SyFy Channel……ugh…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSyfy Orders Script Based on DC Comics' 'Booster Gold' (Exclusive)<\/a>
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This has a zillion ways it could go horribly wrong, starting with it airing on Syfy, and continuing with it playing superheroes for yucks. We'll see. #ddtb Reshared post from +Mark Means For a second, I got excited about this….then saw it was being done by The SyFy Channel……ugh… Embedded Link Syfy Orders Script Based … Continue reading “Live-action Booster Gold on TV?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,40],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-media-tv","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132051,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/stranger-in-a-strange-land-is-coming-to-tv.html","url_meta":{"origin":23980,"position":0},"title":""Stranger in a Strange Land" is coming to TV","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Nov-16 9:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Paramount and Universal will be adapting the Heinlein SF classic as a TV series on Syfy (one hopes of limited duration). 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