“Radical authenticity creates radical universality:” that’s the mantra behind the Israeli TV  industry’s success on the world stage.  

Despite language and subtitle barriers, millions have embraced foreign language series like Fauda, Lupin, Money Heist and Squid Game. In an era when the subtitle barrier has been broken, all these series are examples of local content becoming global hits.  

This episode we meet Ronit Weiss, the Israeli co-creator of one of Netflix’s latest foreign language hits, The Girl from Oslo, a co-production between Norway and Israel, that zoomed to the streamer’s top ten lists in 36 countries when it debuted in April of 2021. We chat about the development of this series and find out more about how Israel does TV.

“Mediaucracy with Dr. Irene Berkowitz” is a series from The Audience Lab Podcast. Audience Lab is a media audience research group at The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University (recently renamed). 

We tackle challenging questions in audience research, digital communication, and human-computer interaction. We’ve led groundbreaking and international collaborations with CBC, CMF, CMPA, Google, Playback, and more.  

If you want to learn more OR you have comments, questions, or guest requests for Mediaucracy, please email our host, Dr. Irene Berkowitz at iberkowi@ryerson.ca.

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