{"id":190918,"date":"2018-11-24T01:45:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T06:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=190918"},"modified":"2018-11-24T01:45:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T06:45:52","slug":"eric-bana-brings-dirty-john-to-tv-with-connie-britton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/24\/eric-bana-brings-dirty-john-to-tv-with-connie-britton\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Bana brings &#8216;Dirty John&#8217; to TV with Connie Britton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_190919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190919\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/352px-Eric_Bana_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190919\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/352px-Eric_Bana_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/352px-Eric_Bana_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg 352w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/352px-Eric_Bana_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He says manipulators like Meehan pick their prey deliberately and it&#8217;s not a fair match. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=6660104\">File Photo By David Shankbone\/Wikimedia <\/a>commons<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=6660104\">, CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Eric Bana and Connie Britton are bringing the true crime podcast &#8220;Dirty John&#8221; to T-V with a weekly series on Bravo.<\/p>\n<p>Bana plays John Meehan and Connie Britton is Debra Newell, two divorcees in California who meet online and fall in love.<\/p>\n<p>Newell thinks John is the man she&#8217;s been looking for while her kids are immediately suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>As they voice their concerns, John drives a wedge through their family.<\/p>\n<p>Bana says he wasn&#8217;t concerned with getting the character of Meehan exact but more interested in portraying a version that helps to explain why Newell couldn&#8217;t walk away.<\/p>\n<p>He says manipulators like Meehan pick their prey deliberately and it&#8217;s not a fair match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dirty John&#8221; premieres Sunday on Bravo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Eric Bana and Connie Britton are bringing the true crime podcast &#8220;Dirty John&#8221; to T-V with a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":190919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-alicia-rancilio","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}