Israeli director Alma Har'el signs TV deal with Amazon Studios
Har'el will work with the studio to develop and create a new television series exclusively for Amazon Prime Video.
TV & Movies
ADL: Fox should fire Carlson for white-supremacist rhetoric
In a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, the head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, says Tucker Carlson’s "rhetoric was not just a dog whistle to racists – it was a bullhorn."
Controversial Arab MK wins Israeli TV award
Labor MK Ibtisam Mara'ana, whose candidacy for parliament sparked public ire over her past anti-Zionist statements, wins an Israeli Academy for Film and Television's 2020 award in the fact-based shows category for an episode of "Excuse Me for Asking," which focuses on sectors in society that deal with social stigmas.
2nd season of Iranian spy series rubs officials the wrong way
"Gando" valorizes Iran’s hard-liners and portrays Foreign Ministry as inept, while pitting Iranian intelligence agents against Western spies trying to infiltrate Iran's government and gather confidential information about nuclear negotiations.
PBS pulls controversial film on Israel, evangelicals
CAMERA found that the filmmakers had cobbled together wording from statements made on Jan. 28, 2020 by former President Donald Trump to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Watchdog sounds alarm over factual errors in PBS documentary 'Til Kingdom Come'
Group points to three different instances of remarks by former President Donald Trump being presented as a spliced-together quote that contradicts the statements.
Israeli TV series starring Shira Haas to be Americanized by CBS
US version of "Shtisel" will be a modern take on "Romeo and Juliet," says Deadline.
Jewish groups vexed by SNL skit saying Israel only vaccinating Jews
Major Jewish groups launch campaigns demanding NBC and SNL apologize "for the blatant anti-Semitic smear." Network and show must make clear that Israel provides equal access to the COVID vaccine for its entire population, Jews and non-Jews alike, they demand.
Israeli film shortlisted for Oscar in Best Live-Action Short category
"White Eye" tells the story of an Israeli who accuses an African migrant of stealing his bicycle in Tel Aviv. Director Tomer Shushan: I'm thrilled to have made it this far.
COVID pandemic shutting down LGBTQ representation on TV, study finds
Report “Where We Are on TV” finds that 70 out of 773 series regular characters on broadcast scripted prime-time TV were LGBTQ, compared to 90 out of a total of 879 characters in the 2019-2020 season.