{"id":1040,"date":"2009-09-18T18:24:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2009-09-18T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T19:27:21","slug":"magicians-by-night-detectives-by-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/magicians-by-night-detectives-by-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Magicians by night, detectives by day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite magicians, Penn and Teller, are set to star in a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118008822.html?categoryid=14&#038;cs=1&#038;nid=2562\" target=\"_blank\">ABC comedy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Comedy\/illusionist duo Penn and Teller have signed on to star in a project for ABC loosely based on their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the Alphabet, the net has given a pilot production commitment to a relationship comedy from scribe Shana Goldberg-Meehan (&#8220;Friends&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>ABC has given a script order to the Penn and Teller project. Comedic one-hour stars the duo as Penn Jillette and Teller &mdash; Las Vegas magicians by night. But here&#8217;s how the show takes a slight twist from real life: By day, the duo become reluctant detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Dick (&#8220;House&#8221;) is writing the project and will exec produce along with Jillette and Teller. Peter Golden is onboard as a co-exec producer, while Warner Bros. TV is producing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um. Okay, I guess. At least they&#8217;re not trying to pretend that it&#8217;s supposed to be realistic . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite magicians, Penn and Teller, are set to star in a new ABC comedy: Comedy\/illusionist duo Penn and Teller have signed on to star in a project for ABC loosely based on their own lives. Also at the Alphabet, the net has given a pilot production commitment to a relationship comedy from scribe Shana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[268,101],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-pennandteller","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}