{"id":27457,"date":"2014-11-15T23:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=27457"},"modified":"2014-11-15T23:48:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T04:48:21","slug":"assange-inspired-new-bbc-comedy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/julian-assange-2\/assange-inspired-new-bbc-comedy-show.php","title":{"rendered":"Assange inspired new BBC comedy show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Julian Assange's stay in            London's Ecuadorian embassy is the inspiration behind a            new BBC comedy.            <\/p>\n<p>              The BBC is making a new comedy inspired by WikiLeaks              Australian founder Julian Assange's stay in the              Ecuadorian embassy.            <\/p>\n<p>              The show, called Asylum, is described as \"a satirical              comedy about a government whistle-blower and a              millionaire internet entrepreneur trapped together in              a London embassy\".            <\/p>\n<p>              It was dreamt up by Kayvan Novak and his Fonejacker              producer Tom Thostrup and is written by newcomers              Peter Bowden and Thom Phipps.            <\/p>\n<p>              Assange has been in the South American country's              central London embassy for more than two years after              taking refuge there to avoid extradition to Sweden              where he faces sex-related allegations.            <\/p>\n<p>              He has said he believes he will be extradited to the              United States if he travels to Sweden.            <\/p>\n<p>              The comedy is one of a string of shows created to              mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta which was              one of the first attempts to limit the powers of the              monarchy and develop a functioning legal system and              parliamentary democracy.            <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/thewest\/entertainment\/a\/25528071\/assange-inspired-new-bbc-comedy-show\" title=\"Assange inspired new BBC comedy show\">Assange inspired new BBC comedy show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Julian Assange's stay in London's Ecuadorian embassy is the inspiration behind a new BBC comedy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julian-assange-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}