Gisele Bundchen gets in the zone while out on a solo run in Costa Rica on Friday afternoon (February 18).
31.01.2022 - 14:33 / variety.com
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent“Suits,” the hit U.S. TV show created by Aaron Korsh, is getting a high-end Arabic adaptation that will play on prominent West Asia satellite pay-TV and streaming service Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) and Egyptian broadcaster UMS.NBCUniversal Formats, a division of Universal Studio Group, has teamed up with Cairo-based media production company TVision and OSN, as well as Egypt’s UMS, to produce the Arabic redo of the show.
Shooting began in January on the first two seasons, comprising 30 episodes. The Arabic-language “Suits” is slated to start playing on OSN and its streaming app Watchit across West Asia, the region also referred to as the Middle East, during the region’s upcoming Ramadan TV season, starting April 2.
“‘Suits’ is one of the most popular TV shows in the world, and we are thrilled to be adapting it for Middle Eastern audiences and partnering once again with our friends at TVision,” said Enrique Guilleìn, executive VP of commercial strategy and international development at Universal Studio Group.In the U.S. “Suits” ended its nine-season run in 2019 having spawned 134 episodes, two remakes (in Korea and Japan), plenty of play on a slew of international broadcasters, and a royal wedding that transformed series star Meghan Markle into a global, household name.“Suits” tells the story of Manhattan’s top corporate law firm, led by the legendary Harvey Specter, played by Gabriel Macht.
Gisele Bundchen gets in the zone while out on a solo run in Costa Rica on Friday afternoon (February 18).
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Stephen «tWitch» Boss is still processing coming to an end after 19 seasons. ET's Nischelle Turner sat down with the dancer — who's been the DJ on since 2014 — on Monday's episode of Entertainment Tonight and he talked about the long-running show's final season, as well as his new celebrity dancing competition series, While tWitch is understandably sad about ending, he told ET that he knows «it's time» and can't wait to see what comes next for DeGeneres.«Things do have a beginning and they have an end, so I know that, but I think the closer that it's getting to the end, naturally, as we do, you start to miss it and you start to soak in all of the little moments where you go, 'Well, maybe I'm not quite ready to say goodbye just yet,'» he acknowledges.