{"id":2909,"date":"2008-07-23T05:04:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:21:49","slug":"open-letter-to-usa-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To USA Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:  USA Network Programming Department<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg<\/p>\n<p>Re: Criminal Intent<\/p>\n<p>Guys,<\/p>\n<p>One of the &#8220;gimmicks&#8221; on all of the shows of the <em>Law and Order <\/em>franchise is the relatively high turnover on the various casts.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in the years since Chris Noth was brought back from Staten Island and onto <em>Criminal Intent<\/em>, he&#8217;s been through a few partners &#8211; he&#8217;s even recycling one from a couple of years ago, now.<\/p>\n<p>But given the way the writing of the show has changed since <em>CI <\/em>jumped from NBC to USA, I have a suggestion for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Lansbury.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.  Hey, we gotta do lunch.  Have your people call my people.  Is that <em>your <\/em>Audi?<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: USA Network Programming Department From: Mitch Berg Re: Criminal Intent Guys, One of the &#8220;gimmicks&#8221; on all of the shows of the Law and Order franchise is the relatively high turnover on the various casts. For example, in the years since Chris Noth was brought back from Staten Island and onto Criminal Intent, he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33696,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/33696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}