{"id":510,"date":"2008-05-27T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=510"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:53:04","slug":"turner-classics-to-present-essentials-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/27\/turner-classics-to-present-essentials-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner Classics To Present Essentials For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best pieces of programming on the Turner Movie Classics channel is their <em>Essentials<\/em> series where Robert Osborne and a guest host discuss a classic film before screening the feature. Now, TCM has spun off a new version of <em>The Essentials<\/em> for younger viewers called, obviously, <em>Essentials, Jr<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Every Sunday night at 8 pm throughout the summer, <em>Essentials, Jr.<\/em> will introduce younger viewers to one of 14 classic films. The series kicks off this Sunday, June 1 with the 1944 Mickey Rooney-Elizabeth Taylor drama <strong>National Velvet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing Osborne and guest on hosting duties are actor Chris O\u2019Donnell and child actor Abigail Breslin. Over the course of the summer, the series will show classics as diverse as <strong>The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/strong> (1956), <strong>Goodbye Mr. Chips<\/strong> (1939), <strong>On The Town<\/strong> (1949), <strong>Sherlock Jr.<\/strong> (1924), <strong>Harvey<\/strong> (1950) and <strong>20 Million Miles To Earth<\/strong> (1957). In addition, TCM\u2019s website will feature information on each week\u2019s film.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and the complete schedule, check out TCM\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/essentialsjr\/index.jsp\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">One of the best pieces of programming on the Turner Movie Classics channel is their Essentials series where Robert Osborne and a guest host discuss a classic film before screening the feature. Now, TCM has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/27\/turner-classics-to-present-essentials-for-kids\/\" title=\"Turner Classics To Present Essentials For Kids\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6,39],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-classic-film","8":"tag-turner-classic-movies"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}