{"id":45642,"date":"2012-10-09T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45642"},"modified":"2012-10-09T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T09:37:06","slug":"battlefield-bad-company-heads-to-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45642-battlefield-bad-company-heads-to-tv","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield: Bad Company heads to TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>When playing Battlefield: Bad Company, most people must\u2019ve thought: \u201cthis will make a great TV show\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently FOX thought so too, as the network has reportedly begun production on an \u201caction comedy\u201d TV series based on EA\u2019s Battlefield spin-off series, Bad Company.<\/p>\n<p>The TV series will be handled by Adam Sandler\u2019s production company Happy Maddison, with Alias writer and executive producer John Eisendrath onboard for scriptwriting duty.<\/p>\n<p>The show is said to follow \u201cfour renegade soldiers as they exit military life and enter the private sector. But trouble is never far behind as they realize their commanding officer had used them to further the ends of a shadow unit within the government and now wants them dead to cover his tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EA&#8217;s Patrick Bach and Patrick O&#8217;Brien are also involved in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s excited for a Bad Company TV show?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UaHcMxfJlhY?list=PL1D8A59AFA1C72959&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/10\/battlefield-bad-company-tv-series-fox-electronic-arts-alias\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/42864-game-vs-movie-industry.html\">Game vs. movie industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42303-big-plans-for-sa-gaming-from-web-africa.html\">Big plans for SA gaming from Web Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41516-dice-promises-to-not-abandon-battlefield-3.html\">DICE promises to not abandon Battlefield 3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40618-ea-wants-to-expand-premium-service-to-other-games.html\">EA wants to expand Premium service to other games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45300-eliza-dushku-needs-her-console.html\">Eliza Dushku needs her console<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44488-violent-gamers-are-more-pain-tolerant-study.html\">Violent gamers are more pain tolerant: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Company gets a comedy TV show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":45643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,7087,7089,7088,7091,7090],"class_list":["post-45642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bad-company","tag-bad-company-tv-show","tag-battlefield-bad-company-2","tag-battlefield-tv-show","tag-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}