{"id":33094,"date":"2025-07-30T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33094\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:30:10","slug":"grinch-beats-blue-lights-as-nis-most-watched-show-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33094\/","title":{"rendered":"Grinch beats Blue Lights as NI\u2019s most watched show of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lately I\u2019ve been feeling about as festive as The Grinch.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d0c4647d-b4e1-4e87-b6f9-06a465721930.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lately I\u2019ve been feeling about as festive as The Grinch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Grinch didn\u2019t just steal Christmas, it also swiped the title of Northern Ireland\u2019s most-watched film or TV programme in 2024, edging out local production Blue Lights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">According to a new report by Ofcom, the 2018 animated comedy averaged 637,000 viewers on Netflix last year, while the season two premier of police drama reached 556,000 viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lately I\u2019ve been feeling about as festive as The Grinch. The Grinch didn\u2019t just steal Christmas, it also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19972,243,96,19971,2839,1647,56,54,55,19970],"class_list":["post-33094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-baftas","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-gabrielle-swan","tag-movies","tag-northern-ireland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-utv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}