When the BBC launched its Arabic TV service March 11, it marked the return of the British pubcaster to the Arab TV market for the first time in more than a decade. That first experience ended in 1996 ...

Driven by still nascent streamers and pay-TV platforms in the region, Middle East producers are rethinking formats and storylines for Arabic TV dramas, adapting some Western shows and venturing beyond ...

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish court has ordered a bankrupt Arabic internet TV company to pay 210 million Swedish crowns ($24 million) in damages for distributing content including English Premier ...

The BBC World Service said Tuesday that it would launch an Arabic TV and information service and end radio services in 10 other languages to help pay for the venture. The Arabic service will be the ...

Al Jazeera, the Arabic TV news network, is facing a de facto boycott from the Israeli government, which calls the network a "tool of Hamas." In turn, Al Jazeera calls the boycott anti-democratic and ...

Israel and the Jewish people are sensitive subjects across the Middle East. But a drama on a Saudi TV channel has sparked curiosity and a debate about whether Arab countries are ready to reconcile ...

From the early days of state-funded, heavily censored television to today's explosion of multichannel satellite TV, the Middle East has been an ideological minefield in a war of information. Jamal ...

Dubai-based broadcaster and streamer MBC is ramping up production with several new high-end shows. These include “Rise of The Witches,” being touted as the biggest-budget Saudi Arabian TV series to ...

An Arab television channel said Monday it was temporarily pulling the plug on its Arabic version of the hit reality show “Big Brother” after charges of indecency. But an official of the MBC satellite ...

A Ramadan TV series aired by the private Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC that shows Jews in a positive light has drawn the ire of some in the Arab world, who say it promotes normalization with ...