{"id":4259,"date":"2012-07-20T19:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:21:02","slug":"television-commercial-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/television-commercial-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Television Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get onto our feature presentation, we have a word from the London Cycle Hire sponsor. Watch out for my dear friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliZaidi87\" title=\"Ali Zaidi's Twitter feed\">Ali<\/a> making his television debut in the commercial for the bank. Look out for the full version coming to a television set near you. Try to resist the temptation to fast-forward through the adverts on recorded programmes on your PVR. You might miss it!<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxfXkBE413E?si=F1OwngDGUtESFiAX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get onto our feature presentation, we have a word from the London Cycle Hire sponsor. Watch out for my dear friend Ali making his television debut in the commercial for the bank. Look out for the full version coming to a television set near you. Try to resist the temptation to fast-forward through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[91,184,1653,1906,1907],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-ali","tag-barclays","tag-stephen-merchant","tag-voice-over","tag-voiceover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8404,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}