{"id":39347,"date":"2012-01-02T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39347"},"modified":"2012-01-02T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:46:00","slug":"israeli-tv-translated-into-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39347","title":{"rendered":"Israeli TV Translated Into American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-israel-tv-20120102,0,6681322.story\">The Los Angeles Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Reporting from Tel Aviv \u2014\u2014 When the season finale of the Showtime thriller &#8220;Homeland&#8221; ran last month, it didn&#8217;t just cap Claire Danes&#8217; triumphant return to series television \u2014 it marked the latest milestone for a small country that lately has become an improbable player in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Homeland,&#8221; which broke Showtime&#8217;s ratings record for a first-year series finale, is adapted from the Israeli show &#8220;Hatufim&#8221; (Prisoners of War). It&#8217;s one of a host of U.S. programs that began life as a Hebrew-language series in this Mediterranean nation of only 8 million people. &#8220;Who&#8217;s Still Standing?,&#8221; the new NBC quiz program in which contestants answering incorrectly are dropped through a hole in the floor, is also an Israeli import. 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