{"id":2362,"date":"2015-10-26T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:12:04","slug":"the-player-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/10\/26\/the-player-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Player #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple weeks of tracking ratings and making predictions, I finally have some concrete insight\u00a0into\u00a0<em>The Player<\/em>&#8216;s future. <em>Variety<\/em> recently released some bad news for\u00a0<em>The Player<\/em>. It seems that NBC has trimmed the episode order to 9 because of its low ratings. A typical season will lean toward 12 episodes, so this is a quarter of the season cut. It is not a decision you make lightly. This won&#8217;t come to a surprise to many of the critics who give\u00a0<em>The Player<\/em> primarily poor reviews. Most complained that the concept was too absurd, or that there were too many complex rules to explain to an audience who wasn&#8217;t hooked enough to pay close\u00a0attention.<\/p>\n<p>What might come as surprise is that this decision was made after the first increase in the ratings\u00a0<em>The Player<\/em> has had since its premiere. This past Thursday&#8217;s ratings in the adults aged 18-49 was a 0.9. This is over a tenth of a point up from last week&#8217;s ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple weeks of tracking ratings and making predictions, I finally have some concrete insight\u00a0into\u00a0The Player&#8216;s future. Variety recently released some bad news for\u00a0The Player. It seems that NBC has trimmed the episode order to 9 because of its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/10\/26\/the-player-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}