{"id":225649,"date":"2025-10-26T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225649\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:30:10","slug":"billy-weir-from-countdowns-of-the-eighties-to-period-dramas-it-seems-that-channel-five-are-starting-to-branch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225649\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Weir: From countdowns of the Eighties to period dramas&#8230; it seems that Channel Five\u00a0are starting to branch out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe channel was built on certain shows but it seems to be taking a different turn with programmes to grip different viewers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8e5aff54-6f1b-4e21-b492-5ce4bf6beb8c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a rather disturbing window into my fast approaching future, I would say that at least once a day find myself standing in a room wondering why the hell I am there. In contrast, I could name you Ipswich Town\u2019s starting line-up from 1981, the actors\u2019 names from the first episode of Neighbours and everything that happened on November 2, 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was a momentous day in TV history as it heralded the arrival of the nation\u2019s fourth terrestrial channel, the snappily titled Channel Four, at a time when the only terrestrial we knew was a wee alien chap on a bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The channel was built on certain shows but it seems to be taking a different turn with programmes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[50954,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-225649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-billy-weir","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}