{"id":526549,"date":"2025-10-25T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526549\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:45:16","slug":"from-blue-lights-to-bloodlands-why-northern-ireland-has-become-the-backdrop-for-arresting-police-dramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526549\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blue Lights to Bloodlands: Why Northern Ireland has become the backdrop for arresting police dramas"},"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\">From recent shows such as Blue Lights and Hope Street, to Bloodlands, Line of Duty and The Fall, experts weigh in on what makes Northern Ireland prime real estate when it comes to a cop show\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blue Lights is one of the BBC's biggest hits at home and across the UK (Photo: BBC\/Two Cities TV)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6eead75e-2061-4669-9f32-ad574fd4dee7.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)\">Blue Lights is one of the BBC&#8217;s biggest hits at home and across the UK (Photo: BBC\/Two Cities TV)<\/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)\">From the back streets of fictional Port Devine to the shadowy alleys of Belfast\u2019s make-believe Mount Eden estate, Northern Ireland has become television\u2019s most arresting crime scene.<\/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)\">Whether it\u2019s Blue Lights, Line of Duty, Bloodlands or Hope Street \u2014 which returns to BBC One on Monday for a series that will include its landmark 50th episode \u2014 the region has quietly built a reputation as the small screen\u2019s biggest precinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From recent shows such as Blue Lights and Hope Street, to Bloodlands, Line of Duty and The Fall,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,170764,145880,1249,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-526549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-bloodlands","10":"tag-blue-lights","11":"tag-kurtis-reid","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115433696868977192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526549","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=526549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}