{"id":1866,"date":"2013-04-24T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2013-04-24T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:00:30","slug":"tv-series-proposed-about-1960s-nasa-and-space-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"TV series proposed about 1960s NASA and space reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drama of the 1960s Space Age and the journalists reporting on it in Florida might become the basis of a new TV series from the team that created the hit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_Men\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mad Men<\/em><\/a> program about 1960s advertising industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2013\/04\/mad-men-space-show\/\" target=\"_d\">Mad Men in Space? Writers Pitch Show About NASA in the &#8217;60s &#8211; Underwire\/Wired.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20130422\/NEWS01\/304220010\/-Mad-Men-writers-mull-show-about-1960s-Cocoa-Beach\" target=\"_d\">&#8216;Mad Men&#8217; writers mull show about 1960s Cocoa Beach: Reporters, race to moon are focus &#8211; Florida Today<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drama of the 1960s Space Age and the journalists reporting on it in Florida might become the basis of a new TV series from the team that created the hit Mad Men program about 1960s advertising industry: Mad Men in Space? Writers Pitch Show About NASA in the &#8217;60s &#8211; Underwire\/Wired.com &#8216;Mad Men&#8217; writers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TV series proposed about 1960s NASA and space reporters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-u6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1195,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1195","url_meta":{"origin":1866,"position":0},"title":"A survey finds, yet again, that space is a low priority for the public","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"John Kelly points to a survey that finds most people put space near the bottom in a list of spending priorities for the government : Taxpayers sour on space during the budget crisis\u00a0 - Florida Today. 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