{"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. So is the former HBO scripted series &#8220;In Treatment,&#8221; which starred Gabriel Byrne and ran for three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times reports: 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}