{"id":548,"date":"2005-11-04T22:30:48-05:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T03:30:48+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2005-11-05T11:53:04-05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-05T16:53:04+00:00","slug":"22-minutes-with-shauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/04\/22-minutes-with-shauna\/","title":{"rendered":"22 minutes with&nbsp;Shauna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/22minutes\"><cite class=\"title\">This Hour Has 22 Minutes<\/cite><\/a> has been back on the air for a couple of weeks now.  It&#8217;s not overstating things to say that for the last few seasons it&#8217;s been a shadow of its former self; over the years almost all of the original cast has left, the exception being Cathy Jones (<q>Cindy Dubizzenchik<\/q>) who, I&#8217;ll admit, was my second-favourite after Rick Mercer (<q>J.B. Dixon<\/q>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>(I realized while writing that paragraph that the anchors no longer identify themselves.  It&#8217;s a small, subtle thing, but it was part of the innate humour of doing a news spoof that the Walsh\/Thomey\/Jones\/Mercer-era show <cite class=\"term\">got<\/cite>.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Of the current faces on the revolving desk chairs, Mark Critch isn&#8217;t bad given the right material, but terminally-earnest Gavin Crawford just isn&#8217;t funny.  Cathy Jones is still funny on the newsdesk, but if I never see the Miss Enid, Sandy Campbell, Babe Bennett or Nervous Rex characters again it&#8217;ll be too soon.  I have hope, though, that by adding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0531932\/\">Shauna MacDonald<\/a>&#8212;the first <cite xml:lang=\"lt\">bona fide<\/cite> actor the show has had since Mary Walsh, I believe&#8212;<cite class=\"title\">22<\/cite> is starting to turn itself around.  She&#8217;s got just the right amount of humorous gravitas in her anchorperson role, and she&#8217;s nailed the <cite class=\"term\">fake commercial<\/cite> sketches too.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Hour Has 22 Minutes has been back on the air for a couple of weeks now. It&#8217;s not overstating things to say that for the last few seasons it&#8217;s been a shadow of its former self; over the years almost all of the original cast has left, the exception being Cathy Jones (Cindy Dubizzenchik)&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}