{"id":442949,"date":"2026-05-11T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:59:12","slug":"the-neighbourhoods-failure-is-not-a-surpise-its-an-awful-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442949\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neighbourhood\u2019s failure is not a surpise: it\u2019s an awful show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Graham Norton dud buried in TV grave after tumbling viewership\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Expectations were high for the Graham Norton-fronted reality gameshow \u2018The Neighbourhood\u2019, which has become the year\u2019s biggest television flop. Photo: ITV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/graham norton.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Expectations were high for the Graham Norton-fronted reality gameshow \u2018The Neighbourhood\u2019, which has become the year\u2019s biggest television flop. Photo: ITV<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ailing ITV reality TV game show The Neighbourhood (ITV1\/Virgin One, final episodes today and tomorrow) was marketed as a big deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It had a big presenter, Graham Norton, and a big prize, \u00a3250,000 (\u20ac289,000). The overall production budget, while undisclosed, was big enough to pay for the construction of an elaborate cul-de-sac set comprising fully functional houses, pub and coffee shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham Norton dud buried in TV grave after tumbling viewership Expectations were high for the Graham Norton-fronted reality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1578,93,30387,61,60,9617],"class_list":["post-442949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-graham-norton","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}