{"id":49350,"date":"2015-01-24T00:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T07:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/lots-of-interesting-shows-scattered-across-the-dial.html"},"modified":"2015-01-24T00:18:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T07:18:52","slug":"lots-of-interesting-shows-scattered-across-the-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/lots-of-interesting-shows-scattered-across-the-dial.html","title":{"rendered":"Lots of interesting shows &#8230; scattered across the dial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s noteworthy about this list of potentially cool shows is how the vast majority of them aren&#39;t on major networks, and a significant number aren&#39;t on basic cable channels, either. Which is both nifty (lots of venues to grow lots of cool shows) and irksome (so I have to subscribe to HBO <i>and<\/i> Showtime <i>and<\/i> Netflix <i>and<\/i> Amazon TV <i>and<\/i> have a Playstation?).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/pictures\/geek-tv-shows-of-2015'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/aAbxK1eixw0xa2QXDXq-SOOQBkzGFzWN5hrg4X7wd2sfpvzFWz54Z65-wJ3LJTsieHaAEwnRj9HhhNN-2_wdh7guA6F0dZfUMOIm7KZyJxhmvONBl06uNb7y7d-HZJFNvr5duWY4Kk0irYAGhVYqOwgOUR62oXpgrDRBIUkZbaGJDZkuG_odSS5yHV5iL52_VKuS9KsEBn5WUzdDZU9MWaXCjitdcY-A1GW82g=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/pictures\/geek-tv-shows-of-2015'>28 new TV shows to geek out over in 2015 (pictures) &#8211; CNET<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCheck out a selection of the sci-fi, fantasy and geek-friendly shows you can look forward to this year, both on TV and online. &#8211; Page 1\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XjsAhvKk1qR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s noteworthy about this list of potentially cool shows is how the vast majority of them aren&#39;t on major networks, and a significant number aren&#39;t on basic cable channels, either. Which is both nifty (lots of venues to grow lots of cool shows) and irksome (so I have to subscribe to HBO and Showtime and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/lots-of-interesting-shows-scattered-across-the-dial.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lots of interesting shows &#8230; scattered across the dial&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127996,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/holy-guacamole-there-are-a-lot-of-good-looking-tv-shows-coming-up-this-fall.html","url_meta":{"origin":49350,"position":0},"title":"Holy Guacamole, there are a lot of good-looking TV shows coming up this Fall","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Sep-15 10:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"Too many to watch, in fact, since our TV time is limited (and it's not like there aren't other shows coming back that we like to watch). 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