/**<js>*//**<js>*/{"id":990,"date":"2018-11-10T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimmythomson.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2018-11-10T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T21:04:48","slug":"tv-a-drama-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/tv-a-drama-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"TV: A drama every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmythomson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/rainshadow-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"rainshadow\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Nearly 20 years ago, when I was a struggling sitcom writer, someone at Channel 7 told me that a new production company called Screentime was looking for an afternoon teen soap.<\/p>\n<p>My then co-writer Steve recalls that by the time I had driven from Epping (Sydney) to the city centre for coffee, I had nutted out a proposal for series that would eventually be called Breakers and run to about 400 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Screentime meanwhile went on to become one of the major players in Australian TV .<\/p>\n<p>After that I created Crash Palace for Fox and Sky (UK)\u00a0and co-created (with Tony Morphett) Rain Shadow for the ABC .<\/p>\n<p>In between times, following\u00a0my philosophy of never turning down a paying gig, I wrote for some weird and not-so-wonderful TV shows.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">You can find out more about my TV career\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmythomson.com\/tv-shows\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 20 years ago, when I was a struggling sitcom writer, someone at Channel 7 told me that a new production company called Screentime was looking for an afternoon teen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[57,58,59,61],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tv","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}