{"id":33851,"date":"2014-05-08T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=33851"},"modified":"2014-05-08T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T17:37:41","slug":"shatner-signs-ora-tv-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/05\/shatner-signs-ora-tv-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner Signs Ora.TV Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33854\" alt=\"ShatnerBBWT-050814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShatnerBBWT-050814.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShatnerBBWT-050814.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShatnerBBWT-050814-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShatnerBBWT-050814-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShatnerBBWT-050814-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShatnerBBWT-050814-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShatnerBBWT-050814-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> has signed a development deal with <em>Ora.TV<\/em>, an Internet TV network and production studio.<\/p>\n<p>The deal means a move for one of Shatner&#8217;s shows, <em>Brown Bag Wine Tastin<\/em>g, beginning June 23.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Brown Bag Wine Tasting<\/em> &#8220;follows Shatner&#8217;s adventures as he asks willing participants to blindly taste wine and describe it in terms of their occupations, with the goal of making the show fun, interactive and a social experience. The series was created out of Shatner\u2019s love of wine and conversation, as well as wanting to have a fun wine tasting experience in an entertaining format.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The show will now appear exclusively on <em>Ora.TV<\/em>, with new episodes to be produced. In addition to <em>Brown Bag Wine Tasting<\/em>, other original content for the network based on Shatner&#8217;s &#8220;varied interests&#8221; will be developed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Brown Bag Wine Tasting<\/em> is close to my heart, and I am delighted to partner with Ora.TV on this show,&#8221; said Shatner. &#8220;I look forward to launching it in the near future and to developing new ideas with their talented team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled to have the legendary William Shatner join us at <em>Ora.TV<\/em>,\u201d said <strong>Jon Housman<\/strong>, <em>Ora.TV<\/em> CEO. &#8220;Brown Bag Wine Tasting is a great addition to our programming. It has a light heartedness and sense of humor that will resonate with our viewers, and of course Bill&#8217;s amazing chemistry with his guests and his charisma on screen. Our team is incredibly excited to build out this series, and to develop new shows with this great talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner has signed a development deal with Ora.TV, an Internet TV network and production&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700,2413],"tags":[7220,7214,7217,2414],"class_list":["post-33851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cast-crew","tag-brown-bag-wine-tasting","tag-internet","tag-ora-tv","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33857,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33851\/revisions\/33857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}