{"id":7511,"date":"2013-03-29T22:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2013-03-29T22:17:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:17:33","slug":"lessons-in-failure-the-wilton-north-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/lessons-in-failure-the-wilton-north-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in failure: The Wilton North Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox&#8217;s late night TV comedy show that, surprisingly, I had never heard of. As always, there are more lessons in failure than in success.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept was ambitious. Bold. Insane. Think about it:\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em>\u00a0aired once a week for an hour-and-a-half with a writing staff of about twenty.\u00a0<em>Wilton North<\/em>\u00a0would air every night\u2026for an hour\u2026with a writing staff of about ten. It wasn\u2019t until decades later that Jon Stewart and his fifteen or so writers figured out how to execute a similar formula to great success. And even then,\u00a0<em>The Daily Show<\/em>\u00a0is only half-an-hour long, airs four times a week, and takes a hiatus once a month. Also, today every laptop can double as an editing suite.\u00a0<em>Wilton North\u00a0<\/em>was operating with pre-digital technology and our search engine was a guy named Keith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox&#8217;s late night TV comedy show that, surprisingly, I had never heard of. As always, there are more lessons in failure than in success. The concept was ambitious. Bold. Insane. Think about it:\u00a0SNL\u00a0aired once a week for an hour-and-a-half with a writing staff of about twenty.\u00a0Wilton North\u00a0would air every night\u2026for an hour\u2026with a writing staff of about ten. It wasn\u2019t until decades later that Jon Stewart and his fifteen or so writers figured out how to execute a similar formula to great success. And even then,\u00a0The Daily Show\u00a0is only half-an-hour long, airs four times a week, and takes a hiatus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,576],"tags":[2265,4334,4335],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","tag-failure","tag-lessons","tag-the-wilton-north-report","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1X9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}