'Tehran' Producers Talk AppleTV+ Debut for Israeli Spy Drama: "Know Your Enemy"

In a video from 2018, a woman stands at a busy traffic intersection in Tehran, takes off the headscarf mandated by law and waves it in protest. As we see in the stirring documentary Nasrin, other women follow suit in the next weeks.

Christopher Vourlias New series “Lafayette” will be presented this week at the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA), the film and TV market taking place in Rome. Variety spoke to the show’s producer Nicolas Deprost, CEO of the French production outfit Wild Horses, and writer, Oscar winner David Franzoni (“Gladiator”), ahead of the market.

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Tehran, Apple TV+'s nail-biting Israeli espionage thriller, is back for a new episode today, and the complications are escalating.In this exclusive clip, Faraz Kamali (Shaun Toub), the Iranian intelligence officer who is trying to catch Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan) before she completes her sabotage mission, learns that his beloved wife, who was in France getting brain surgery, has been kidnapped.He finds a cellphone on his doorstep, which rings from an unknown caller.

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorFirst Look Media streamer Topic has picked up the U.S. rights to Israeli drama Nehama in a deal that will see Topic Studios develop an English-language adaptation of the darkly comic series.Topic clinched the rights in a competitive situation, and the original series will premiere in North America on October 15.

straight to your inboxArsenal look to have been dealt a blow ahead of their Premier League clash with Manchester City.Gunners boss Mikel Arteta is set to be without key defender Kieran Tierney for the showdown at the Etihad on Saturday, October 17.Tierney is currently away on international duty with Scotland, who face Israel on Thursday in a crucial Euro play-off semi-final.But the Scots' preparations have suffered a serious setback with the news that Stuart Armstrong has tested positive for

Jake Kanter International TV EditorWME has signed Niv Sultan, the breakout Israeli star of Apple TV+’s spy thriller Tehran.Sultan headlines the eight-part drama, playing Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad computer hacker-agent undertaking her very first mission in Iran’s capital, which is also her place of birth.She started her career in Israel, starring in series including She Has It and Temporarily Dead.

Fans of the cloak-and-dagger genre will be intrigued by “Tehran,” an eight-episode Israeli spy drama from “Fauda” writer Moshe Zonder.The series, which premiered on Israel’s Kan 11 network in June, is now available on Apple TV+ (with English subtitles) — and, like “Fauda,” it’s a doozy — from its topical plot line, to its frenetic pace to its three-dimensional portrayal of people on both sides of a long-simmering historical conflict warring with each other, and with their own personal

The show’s eight episodes aired in Israel in June and July, to largely rave reviews. The espionage thriller, with dialogue in Hebrew, English and Farsi, debuts on Apple TV+ on Friday.“Tehran” centers on a computer hacker-agent undertaking her very first mission in Iran’s capital, which is also the place of her birth.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAn Israeli-produced series debuting on Apple TV Plus, “Tehran” is a show that looks at Iran through an alternately adversarial and nostalgic lens.

Apple TV+’s new spy thriller, the Israeli but Iran-set Tehran, is as much about the human cost of espionage as it is about the thrills of infiltration.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Film agencies in Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement Monday to collaborate on television production, the latest development to follow a U.S.-brokered deal between the countries to normalize relations.The Abu Dhabi Film Commission, an Emirati government agency, said it reached an understanding with the Israeli Film Fund and a Jerusalem film school seeking to strengthen commercial ties through training programs for film and television

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBoaz Yakin ‘s romantic dance drama “Aviva” has been sold by Alief Film Company to several big territories. An exploration of gender identity and self-expression through body language, “Aviva,” shot on location in Paris and New York and revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVOn the heels of the historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the two Middle Eastern countries are also set to make TV history.