{"id":772,"date":"2007-07-14T16:49:33-04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T20:49:33+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/07\/14\/als-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T23:57:06-04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T03:57:06+00:00","slug":"als-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/07\/14\/als-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Al&#8217;s&nbsp;apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Hot on the heels of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kimota94.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/drive-right-off-map.html\">news that <cite class=\"title\">Drive<\/cite> won&#8217;t see its final broadcasts<\/a> comes this equally depressing update:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/writerbroadcaster.com\/WordPress\/index.php\/?p=571\" title=\"Joe Mahoney: Update on The Adventures of Apocalypse Al\"><p>The Adventures of Apocalypse Al, the twenty part series of five minute radio plays we produced last year (written by none other than J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame), will NOT be aired nationally anywhere on CBC Radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>It had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/wordsatlarge\/blog\/2007\/01\/update_on_the_adventures_of_ap.php\">delayed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writerbroadcaster.com\/WordPress\/index.php\/?p=386\">several times<\/a>, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/worldsofjms.com\/usenet\/post\/061212b.htm\">forgotten about<\/a>, so this isn&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> shocking news.  And all hope may not be lost&#8212;it&#8217;s been sold to other broadcasters including NPR and BBC, and may be released on CD &#8220;eventually&#8221;&#8212;but it&#8217;s still quite disappointing that it&#8217;s not going to be broadcast here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ins datetime=\"2007-07-25T23:31:00-04:00\"><p>SFFaudio.com has <a title=\"THE FREE The Adventures Of Apocalypse Al CAMPAIGN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sffaudio.com\/2007\/07\/commentary-radio-drama-from-j-michael.html\">started a campaign<\/a> to get one of the regions to broadcast <cite class=\"title\">Al<\/cite>; we&#8217;ll see if it has any effect.  For what it&#8217;s worth, I submitted Joe&#8217;s post to Tod Maffin at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethecbc.com\/\">Inside the CBC<\/a>, but it apparently didn&#8217;t make the cut (odd, since Tod had recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethecbc.com\/slowweek\">complained about it being a slow news week<\/a>).<\/p><\/ins><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot on the heels of the news that Drive won&#8217;t see its final broadcasts comes this equally depressing update: The Adventures of Apocalypse Al, the twenty part series of five minute radio plays we produced last year (written by none other than J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame), will NOT be aired nationally anywhere&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\/772"}],"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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}