{"id":40234,"date":"2019-06-02T05:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=40234"},"modified":"2020-02-16T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:29:17","slug":"the-flare-the-stars-of-the-show-within-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2019\/06\/the-flare-the-stars-of-the-show-within-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Flare&#8221; \u2013 The Stars Of The Show Within The Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The half-hour after show titled \u201cWhat Just Happened??! With Fred Savage\u201d is a spoof show that explores the \u201cfandom\u201d surrounding the fake sci-fi thriller series with set visits to \u201cThe Flare\u201d, interviews with the \u2018cast\u2019 and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/fox-aftershow-parody-what-just-happened-welcomes-rob-lowe-announces-cast-1214747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THR<\/a> announced the cast of the show within the show on May 31st, 2019. The actors of the fake sci-fi drama are as previously announced: Shiri Appleby and Kevin Zegers. In addition, Guillermo Diaz, Duane Henry, Tyler Ritter, Kai Wener, Amy Acker, Sola Bamis and Sprague Grayden joined the cast.<\/p>\n<p>We learn some details about the characters as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the show within the show, Zegers plays the lead role of Chester, a handyman who realizes he\u2019s meant to save the world. Diaz plays Stan, a conservative family man who becomes desperate enough to stop at nothing to keep his loved ones safe, and Appleby plays Lisa, a tough, blue-collar loner who overcomes a dark past to become a strong leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The nine-episode show will premiere on June 30th on FOX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The half-hour after show titled \u201cWhat Just Happened??! With Fred Savage\u201d is a spoof show that explores the \u201cfandom\u201d surrounding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2374],"tags":[11,2697],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-40234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-shiri-appleby","tag-shiri-appleby","tag-the-flare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40236,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234\/revisions\/40236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}