{"id":924,"date":"2026-03-14T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=924"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:00:20","slug":"9-niche-tv-shows-that-became-global-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"9 Niche TV Shows That Became Global Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> to <em>Heated Rivalry<\/em>, some of the biggest hit TV shows of all time seemed to have niche appeal before they broke out and found a huge audience. A lot of popular shows have tapped into trends \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/walking-dead-rewatch-harsh-truth-survivors-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Walking Dead<\/em>, for example, rode the zombie wave<\/a> of the 2010s \u2014 but the biggest gambles yield the biggest rewards.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Game of Thrones to Heated Rivalry, some of the biggest hit TV shows of all time seemed to have niche appeal before they broke out and found a huge audience. A lot of popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}