| The production of several Ramadan serials was indefinitely put on hold due to the many ongoing changes in the broadcasting field. |
| The production of several Ramadan serials was indefinitely put on hold due to the many ongoing changes in the broadcasting field.According to some producers, private TV channels have seen a drop in small-screen advertising since January 25, translating into less money to acquire new content this year. Other insiders blame politics, claiming some serials stopped shooting because their headliners were on the wrong side of the revolution, quoted making statements against the protests in Tahrir. This may not turn out to be a career killer in the long term, but it has definitely affected the popularity of some stars right now. Case in point: Ghada Abdel-Razek, who was severely criticized even by her frequent collaborator director Khaled Youssef, might see her new serial Samara canceled or at least pulled out of the lineup by Dubai TV, which owns Samara’s premiere rights. Meanwhile, a number of TV screenwriters have gone back to the keyboard to update their scripts to incorporate the revolutionary fever that swept the nation in the wake of former President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation. Among them, Mohsen El-Galad is rewriting his serial Her Highness, the Minister, in which Ilham Shahin plays a woman venturing into politics. Mariam Naoum is also changing plot elements in her TV adaptation of Sonallah Ibrahim’s novel Zaat, starring Nelly Karim, to include the nation’s latest sociopolitical developments. We trust that a Hosni Mubarak biopic won’t be on the storyboard for a few more decades. |
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