Shai Stern's encounters with people falling apart in front of the cameras, with impoverished bastions, and his ability to harass them gracefully produce mesmerizing scenes

• The most watched show. A gift on the air

1. Producer verified in the office and an pinpointing the Shin Bet sent Shai Stern and part of the system-proof home, and photographs of his weekly program gone awry. But the show must go on despite the corona, and we received yesterday Version Zoom hosting plans, recorded in several locations and was called "Shi isolation."

Stern off defender His dark house, Hadar Levy and Moshe Ashkenazi were each sitting in his own house, and four more interviewees dried up in the regular studio. Strange, lots of squares on the screen, and despite everything Of a network, with more viewers than the Friday edition with Ayala Hasson (Tuesday, 7.5 percent compared to. 5.1 How does this happen? Maybe because "Shai on Broadcast" is the official alternative to "Playful Explanations", and as such should be all it is Not a popular and hollow situation comedy.

The weak point is the boring panel that Stern convenes in our studio every week. There is a serious problem in choosing the guests, and most of the time these are used celebrities, who have gone through every studio with a camera on the way there and answered the same questions over and over again. For example, Ira Dolphin, Prof. Eitan Friedman and Benny Baruchim who were hosted yesterday.

But what saves "Gift on the Broadcast" and raises the show high are Stern's color articles. The same encounters with simple people behind the headlines. His ability to converse with them, tease them in a graceful way, gain their trust and bring out absurd and / or exciting moments from them, produces mesmerizing scenes. The gloomy cynicism identified with Stern now fits into everyday reality and dresses well on the overall feel.

In recent weeks, Stern has launched a series of powerful articles on the damage of the corona crisis, the collapse of the economy and the widespread protest. Week after week, people break up in front of the cameras. In impoverished stationers from the market, who are interviewed with a strangled throat and teary eyes, "the host of the hostel protest", who cares about 110,000 children at risk and predicts blacks, and even the children's star Moshikoliko (from the program "Shlomi and Just" on the channel, Where he lives with his four children. Moshikoliko lives in a parking lot in Holon because today there is no market for birthday performances for NIS 700, but he must continue to pay alimony

. There's nowhere to bring. It's time for people to snatch from your hand what you have. I, I have four children and if I have nothing to eat - I will swallow you. "We are not there yet, but we are at the door."