{"id":462037,"date":"2025-09-30T03:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462037\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:14:12","slug":"nathan-braniff-blue-lights-star-on-why-show-could-not-have-been-made-in-northern-ireland-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462037\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Braniff: Blue Lights star on why show could not have been made in Northern Ireland 20 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Actor says end of conflict fuelled creative boom in Belfast that led to popular BBC police drama\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tommy Foster (Nathan Braniff). BBC\/Two Cities Television\/Matthias Clamer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/07825095-922f-449f-a173-b4df8d488cc5.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)\">Tommy Foster (Nathan Braniff). BBC\/Two Cities Television\/Matthias Clamer<\/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)\">Nathan Braniff doesn\u2019t think Blue Lights could have been made even 20 years ago because of the Troubles.<\/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 Belfast actor, who plays PC Tommy Foster in the BBC One show, was speaking ahead of the return of the police series with its third season on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor says end of conflict fuelled creative boom in Belfast that led to popular BBC police drama Tommy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[145880,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-462037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-blue-lights","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115291073378144907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}