{"id":8577,"date":"2015-08-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2015-08-18T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T02:12:58","slug":"post-mortem-cougar-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/post-mortem-cougar-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Cougar Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cougar-town-cast-tbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8579\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cougar-town-cast-tbs.jpg\" alt=\"cougar-town-cast-tbs\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cougar-town-cast-tbs.jpg 550w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cougar-town-cast-tbs-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>After 6 seasons, split evenly between ABC and TBS, the poorly-named <em>Cougar Town<\/em> drew to a close this spring. \u00a0Originally featuring Courteney Cox as a divorced cougar (hence the name) trying to navigate the dating world, the show quickly pivoted to focus on Cox and her family and friends, far surpassing any juice in the original premise.<\/p>\n<p>After 6 years, the show was starting to show its age. \u00a0Brian Van Holt had left the show as a regular during the last season, and the rest of the cast also seemed ready to move on. \u00a0At the end of the day, <em>Cougar Town<\/em> was the most successful post-<em>Friends<\/em> attempt by any of the Friends and certainly brought an audience to TBS, along with Conan, that might not have gone there otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 6 seasons, split evenly between ABC and TBS, the poorly-named Cougar Town drew to a close this spring. \u00a0Originally featuring Courteney Cox as a divorced cougar (hence the name) trying to navigate the dating world, the show quickly pivoted to focus on Cox and her family and friends, far surpassing any juice in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[68,5773,64,226,5300,2400,1667],"class_list":["post-8577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-abc","tag-brian-van-holt","tag-conan-obrien","tag-cougar-town","tag-courteney-cox","tag-friends","tag-tbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}