{"id":124,"date":"2005-11-03T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T04:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=124"},"modified":"2005-11-04T00:59:28","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T08:59:28","slug":"cbs-to-offer-threshold-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/cbs-to-offer-threshold-online\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS to Offer Threshold Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051103\/tv_nm\/threshold_dc\">promote its new show<\/a>, <em>Threshold<\/em>. It&#8217;s another alien mystery like the super popular <em>Lost<\/em> on rival ABC.  (<em>Lost<\/em> garnered an impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/article\/ds24619.html\">23 million viewers<\/a> for its season premiere.)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re actually offering as a <a href=\"www.cbs.com\">free download <\/a>, <em>without advertising<\/em> after the show airs at 9 pm on Friday nights.  <em>Threshold<\/em> follows what happens when the US Navy discovers an alien spacecraft has landed in the Atlantic Ocean.  It faces a tough race in the creepy alien mystery genre.  (I like crime shows, but now I get my choice of investigator, city, and method of investigation &#8212; scientific or psychic. That&#8217;s too many crime shows.)<\/p>\n<p>I have watched this show, and contrary to the TV critic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\">Salon.com<\/a>, I think it is creepy but weak.  Traditional sci-fi horror movies gloss over the fake science in the plot: this show revels in its hokum. One show used the &#8220;third generation copy of an MP3&#8221; as key forensic evidence.  What does that mean? What is the third generation of a perfect digital copy, with no degradation or error at all? Maybe you could say &#8220;an imperfect copy of an MP3.&#8221; (Others online have been tougher on the science in <em>Threshold<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>But does the accuracy of science hooha matter in a creepy TV show, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS is trying to promote its new show, Threshold. It&#8217;s another alien mystery like the super popular Lost on rival ABC. (Lost garnered an impressive 23 million viewers for its season premiere.) They&#8217;re actually offering as a free download , without advertising after the show airs at 9 pm on Friday nights. Threshold follows what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}