Israel’s TV writers are fighting back against disinformation with comedy.
Earlier this week satirical show “Eretz Nehederet,” the Israeli version of “Saturday Night Live,” broadcast a special featuring a sketch about the BBC’s reporting of a rocket attack on a Gaza hospital.
It follows a number of controversies surrounding the BBC’s reporting on the Israel-Hamas war, which include refusing to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization and admission that their reporting on the Gaza hospital attack wrongly blamed Israel when the culprit was likely a Hamas rocket mis-firing. It also later emerged that as the rocket had landed in the hospital carpark the number of casualities was far lower than originally reported.
In the “Eretz Nehederet” sketch, which has gone viral since the broadcast on Israeli network Keshet 12 on Wednesday evening, Israeli actor Liat Harlev plays a BBC anchor arbitrarily inventing the number of fatalities from the attack.
Earlier this week satirical show “Eretz Nehederet,” the Israeli version of “Saturday Night Live,” broadcast a special featuring a sketch about the BBC’s reporting of a rocket attack on a Gaza hospital.
It follows a number of controversies surrounding the BBC’s reporting on the Israel-Hamas war, which include refusing to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization and admission that their reporting on the Gaza hospital attack wrongly blamed Israel when the culprit was likely a Hamas rocket mis-firing. It also later emerged that as the rocket had landed in the hospital carpark the number of casualities was far lower than originally reported.
In the “Eretz Nehederet” sketch, which has gone viral since the broadcast on Israeli network Keshet 12 on Wednesday evening, Israeli actor Liat Harlev plays a BBC anchor arbitrarily inventing the number of fatalities from the attack.
- 10/27/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
AMC has picked up Channel 4's Loaded TV show, featuring childhood friends and video game entrepreneurs who become overnight successes. The eight-part comedy drama stars Jim Howick, Samuel Anderson, Jonny Sweet, Nick Helm, and Mary McCormack. Production will begin in early November, with an eye toward a 2017 premiere.Loaded is an English-language series based on the Israeli show, Mesudarim, created by Muli Segev and Assaf Harel. Jon Brown is writing and will serve as an executive producer. Raised by Wolves' Ian Fitzgibbon has been tapped to direct the first three episodes.Read More…...
- 10/26/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
AMC has partnered with Channel 4 on the upcoming eight-episode comedic drama series Loaded. AMC will be the U.S. network for the series, which it will co-produce with Channel 4, Hillbilly Television and Keshet UK. Loaded, an English-language version of the Keshet International award-winning series Mesudarim created by Muli Segev and Assaf Harel, was originally commissioned by Channel 4 in January, with Jon Brown (Veep) tapped as writer and executive producer. The series…...
- 10/26/2016
- Deadline TV
With the 20th Toronto Jewish Film Festival now behind us, it’s time to look back at all the films screened and determine which were the good, the bad, or the ugly.
The Good
Oss 117: Lost in Rio
The most complimentary thing you can say about Michel Hazanavicius is something everyone acknowledged after his Oscar-winning 21st century silent film, The Artist – Hazanavicius knows his cinema. Oss 117: Lost in Rio boasts endearing performances and successfully taps into the nostalgia for 1960’s cinema. This is the spoof that the Austin Powers trilogy wished it could be. Just don’t expect this spy film to be revelatory.
The Day I Saw Your Heart
Although wildly imperfect, The Day I Saw Your Heart magically conciliates its flaws with French charm. From any other country, this film might not have worked, but because it’s French, it does. It’s clearly unfair, but,...
The Good
Oss 117: Lost in Rio
The most complimentary thing you can say about Michel Hazanavicius is something everyone acknowledged after his Oscar-winning 21st century silent film, The Artist – Hazanavicius knows his cinema. Oss 117: Lost in Rio boasts endearing performances and successfully taps into the nostalgia for 1960’s cinema. This is the spoof that the Austin Powers trilogy wished it could be. Just don’t expect this spy film to be revelatory.
The Day I Saw Your Heart
Although wildly imperfect, The Day I Saw Your Heart magically conciliates its flaws with French charm. From any other country, this film might not have worked, but because it’s French, it does. It’s clearly unfair, but,...
- 5/14/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
This Is Sodom
Directed by Adam Sanderson and Muli Segev
Written by Muli Segev, David Lifshitz and Asaf Shalmon
Israel, 2010
At an arranged marriage, a Rabbi tries to break the ice by telling a joke.
“Why was the first man the happiest?” he asks.
No one answers.
“Because he didn’t have a mother-in-law!”
No one laughs.
The rabbi has the decency to recognize his pathetic attempt at humour and stops. Israel’s biggest blockbuster in 25 years, This is Sodom, however, doesn’t – resulting in an overproduced, underwritten excuse for a comedy, lasting an interminable 88 minutes.
The film opens with a door-to-door salesman, named ‘god’, selling a new religion to a man named Abraham. To prove his omnipotence, the salesman promises the destruction of Sodom, the most famous Sin City in history.
However, Abraham protests, informing god of his nephew, Lot, who is the one righteous man in the city.
Directed by Adam Sanderson and Muli Segev
Written by Muli Segev, David Lifshitz and Asaf Shalmon
Israel, 2010
At an arranged marriage, a Rabbi tries to break the ice by telling a joke.
“Why was the first man the happiest?” he asks.
No one answers.
“Because he didn’t have a mother-in-law!”
No one laughs.
The rabbi has the decency to recognize his pathetic attempt at humour and stops. Israel’s biggest blockbuster in 25 years, This is Sodom, however, doesn’t – resulting in an overproduced, underwritten excuse for a comedy, lasting an interminable 88 minutes.
The film opens with a door-to-door salesman, named ‘god’, selling a new religion to a man named Abraham. To prove his omnipotence, the salesman promises the destruction of Sodom, the most famous Sin City in history.
However, Abraham protests, informing god of his nephew, Lot, who is the one righteous man in the city.
- 4/18/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
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