The series “Northern Circle” outside the Ramadan show: details of the last hours of negotiation
It seems that the series “Northern Circle” will not be shown during the Ramadan season, following a decision issued by Abu Dhabi Channel (the exclusive viewer) a few hours ago, to postpone the broadcast of the drama until following Ramadan. Until now, the company I SEE MEDIA, which produces the work, has not issued any explanatory statement, although it published a first statement two weeks ago in which it confirmed that the work was subject to attempts to distort and misrepresent it.
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed learned that until late last night, negotiations were in progress to decide on the presentation of “Northern Roundregarding” written by Hazem Suleiman and directed by Amer Fahd, so that the Emirati channel issued its final decision to postpone the series until following the month of Ramadan, and include it in the list of currently frozen series. According to private information, the channel considered that there were technical and technical problems associated with some scenes of the first ten episodes, which prompted it to postpone the work to a later period. But behind the scenes, those in charge of the work talk regarding wars between Syrian production companies, some of which worked to pressure the channel to withdraw the series, accusing “Northern Roundregarding” of broadcasting scenes of sectarian violence linked to the Syrian reality.
However, the paradox is that the “Abu Dhabi” station gave full approval to the content before purchasing the series, months ago, and so did the Lebanese General Directorate of General Security (files of the work in Beirut), which did not find in the work anything that aroused sectarianism.
In contact with “The New Arab,” producer Iyad Al-Khazouz, owner of the “IC Media” company, refuses to comment on the decision to ban the show, preferring to wait. However, the information currently circulating among the work team states that the director will make some adjustments to the course of the scenes in the first episodes, and these scenes will be subject to For montage, to be shown next fall in a modified form, or in a new format, and it is likely that the show will be in favor of the Saudi “Shahid” platform.
