{"id":275,"date":"2009-01-16T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2009-01-16T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:50:23","slug":"dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/16\/dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"DC&#8217;s &#8216;Fables&#8217; Commercial on ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You may have heard that ABC is developing Bill Willingham&#8217;s DC comic &#8216;Fables&#8217; for television.\u00a0 If you have not, you can read about it by <a title=\"ABC to bring DC&#039;s Fables alive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3idc160e735d514c2d71f3aa5fdb3823c2\" class=\"broken_link\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is the first commercial.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sdB-CQ8WV04&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sdB-CQ8WV04&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-275\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/16\/dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-275\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/16\/dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/16\/dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/16\/dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-275\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/16\/dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard that ABC is developing Bill Willingham&#8217;s DC comic &#8216;Fables&#8217; 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