{"id":148,"date":"2011-12-23T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/12\/23\/talking-of-blasphemy-tim-minchin-cut-from-tonights-j-ross-show\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:54:00","slug":"talking-of-blasphemy-tim-minchin-cut-from-tonights-j-ross-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/12\/23\/talking-of-blasphemy-tim-minchin-cut-from-tonights-j-ross-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking of blasphemy, Tim Minchin cut from tonight&#8217;s J. Ross show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timminchin.com\/\">Tim Minchin&#8217;s blog<\/a> has very cross post about ITV&#8217;s decision to cut his recorded appearance on the J Ross show tonite. Tim writes&#8230;<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic\"><br \/>&#8220;And then someone got nervous and sent the tape to ITV\u2019s director of television, Peter Fincham.<\/p>\n<p>And Peter Fincham demanded that I be cut from the show.<\/p>\n<p>He did this because he\u2019s scared of the ranty, shit-stirring, right-wing press, and of the small minority of Brits who believe they have a right to go through life protected from anything that challenges them in any way.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what was cut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PS Tim&#8217;s &#8220;I am not saying I&#8217;m Jesus&#8221; reminded me of king of the blasphemers (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stewart_Lee#2005:_Jerry_Springer_The_Opera_and_90s_Comedian\">Jerry Springer musical case<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V4OnHCB1bmI\">Stewart Lee &#8211; go to 1min30<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have sent my thoughts to viewerservices@itv.com Their explanation is: &#8220;We often make changes to programmes before transmission and on this occasion we felt that the song didn\u2019t quite work editorially.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Minchin&#8217;s blog has very cross post about ITV&#8217;s decision to cut his recorded appearance on the J Ross show tonite. Tim writes&#8230;&#8220;And then someone got nervous and sent the tape to ITV\u2019s director of television, Peter Fincham. And Peter Fincham demanded that I be cut from the show. He did this because he\u2019s scared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}