{"id":61499,"date":"2024-01-29T17:20:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T08:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/29\/amazon-the-expats-series-not-available-in-hong-kong-where-it-is-set"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T08:20:38","slug":"amazons-expats-series-not-available-in-hong-kong-where-it-is-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61499","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Expats series not available in Hong Kong, where it is set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First two episodes inaccessible to viewers in city, with some attributing censorship to umbrella protest scenes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s big-ticket series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2024\/jan\/26\/expats-review-nicole-kidman-is-running-on-the-fumes-of-her-talent\">Expats<\/a>, set and filmed in Hong Kong, is not available for viewing in the city despite being billed as a worldwide release.<\/p>\n<p>The first two episodes of the drama, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by The Farewell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2024\/jan\/17\/lulu-wang-expats-interview-nicole-kidman\">Lulu Wang<\/a>, were released on Friday but listed as \u201ccurrently unavailable\u201d for viewers in Hong Kong. The series, based on a 2014 novel, The Expatriates, focuses on the lives of three American women in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/29\/amazon-the-expats-series-not-available-in-hong-kong-where-it-is-set\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First two episodes inaccessible to viewers in city, with some attributing censorship to umbrella protest scenesAmazon\u2019s big-ticket series Expats, set and filmed in Hong Kong, is not available for viewing in the city despite being billed as a worldwide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,41,458,50,71,48,520,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-culture","category-hong-kong","category-television","category-television-radio","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61499\/revisions\/61515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}