{"id":169,"date":"2014-04-18T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/great-christmas-light-fight-to-return\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T23:44:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T23:44:45","slug":"great-christmas-light-fight-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/great-christmas-light-fight-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Christmas Light Fight to Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">lights<\/a> and frights is on! ABC has announced one series renewal and one new special from FremantleMedia North America. \u201cThe Great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Light Fight\u201d will be returning for a second installment this holiday season, but before stringing up the mistletoe, a one-part special, \u201cThe Great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> Fright Fight,\u201d will debut this fall featuring families competing for the greatest of the ghoulish haunted <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> displays! <\/p>\n<p>Commented Thom Beers, CEO, FremantleMedia North America, \u201c\u2019The Great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Light Fight\u2019 really brought the holiday spirit to light in homes across the country. Our team had a terrific time producing this show and seeing so many magnificent displays that were of theme-park gravitas. We are excited to be coming back for more and to also be frightening the format for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Light Fight\u201d first debuted on ABC in December 2013 and featured 20 families competing to have the greatest <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> display. The families were chosen through an extensive nationwide search, based on their previous elaborate <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> light displays, incredible choreography and over-the-top designs. On its debut, \u201cThe Great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Light Fight\u201d delivered ABC\u2019s highest total viewers in the time period in five years and improved 17% over the prior year in total viewers and Adults 18-49 during its three-week run. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Light Fight\u201d will be returning with six episodes, while \u201cThe Great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> Fright Fight\u201d will premiere as a one-episode special. Both shows come from FremantleMedia North America (\u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent,\u201d \u201cThe Price is Right\u201d). Executive Producers for both series are Brady Connell, Max Swedlow, Thom Beers and Jennifer Mullin. FremantleMedia is distributing the shows and format internationally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/yoeeqgamefc.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for lights and frights is on! ABC has announced one series renewal and one new special from FremantleMedia North America. \u201cThe Great Christmas Light Fight\u201d will be returning for a second installment this holiday season, but before stringing up the mistletoe, a one-part special, \u201cThe Great Halloween Fright Fight,\u201d will debut this fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-news","tag-external-christmas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}