Another Yom Kippur comes upon us, and with it the annual opportunity to forgive, to apologize and most importantly - to ask for forgiveness. In the spirit of the holiday (and since this is already a kind of annual tradition in the various media, what to do, try to think every year about a new concept for the holiday that comes back, we tested, every year) - we collected 4 things that Israeli television can definitely apologize to. Although it's pretty clear she's not going to do it.
New editions that do not end with
a particularly justified initiative is the one recently conceived by "Israel Today" reporter Eran Suissa, who calls for a significantly shortening of the length of the daily news editions. True, it's hard to imagine a return to the old-fashioned format of half an hour of daily news (as the adults among us remember, from the days of "Look" and the first and only channel). But for several years now the two major editions of News 12 and 13 have been an endless saga of items of varying degrees of importance, doing nothing but tiring our lives with information we could certainly have drawn from the internet or from Guy Pines.
It's just not over.
The news, screenshot
Seriously, in what world is a daily newscast as long as a feature length?
What information is so necessary to provide that one hour will not be enough for it and one has to invade the areas of the hour and a half and sometimes even more?
For God's sake, leave the magazine articles for the weekend editions (or pre-prime time and pre-prime time news - and God knows there are quite a few), and provide us with the main dish for which we gather every day at eight o'clock in the evening: the news.
What a concept.
20 years of reality
The writer of these lines has already grinded the subject well, in columns he devoted last year on this site to satirical coverage of the programs "Big Brother" and "Wedding", but it is worth saying this again: the first reality that made noise in Israel (and forgive us "The Mole" - pioneering reality But not one that marked the gospel of the genre in the country) was "Take Me Sharon", and it came up in the summer of 2003. Yes, that summer when Ninet sang "Sea of Tears" in the first "Star Born" finale, in Nitzanim.
That means that natives of that year have already graduated from high school and are about to enlist in the same army that Ninet Tayeb served in those days.
For almost 20 years the prime time of the big franchises has been devoted almost exclusively to a genre that all over the world is being pushed to marginal niche channels, while here the celebration refuses to end - even if the effect goes down and we are all a little tired, want to go home and just keep dancing.
Is it original to announce the end of the reality era?
Not really, they've said it before, but it's not that anything has really changed in this area.
Maybe it's time to move on?
Experts in "Wedding at First Sight", Keshet 12
This is even more a pity, given the amount of great original series that have emerged here in recent years, which prove how much Israel has grown, developed and matured in terms of content.
A little more original series please.
"Coupe First" stars Micha Loveton
It wouldn’t hurt to reduce the doses of “reality” a bit and alongside series and movies, go back to refreshing things that once worked here, like hosting shows or Lights Knights.
Or bring the next thing already.
But already reality - what happens to the worst castings?
But if there is one thing that characterizes this year of reality, it is the blow of the failed castings.
And maybe "fail" is a difficult word, because here and there there are contemporary participants who have managed to like us (hey, again, Omar Barzani, old-fashioned in your opinions as you may be) and we want their best (Mano and Nitzan - with you, as Mano says, "everything is good") .
But "Big Brother," for example, presented the dullest season in its history, with a series of castings that felt like a remake, not to mention raising rumors, dormitories and previous reality shows, in "Wedding at First Sight" almost all couples this season move between the mismatched and the unbearable TV, and the hype that "The Next Star" created this season was hardly felt and more focused on the judges (did you hear? Vanity's songs sit together at the same table! Only 18 years after the first "Star Born" finale!).
Recycled and awkward castings.
Dana Ron and Oren Hazan in "The Big Brother," from the show
Perhaps "The X Factor", which will come up soon, will offer a more interesting variety, or at least succeed in arousing more interest among the public, which, as mentioned, is already fed up with poetry programs.
And maybe it's just the fatigue of the material, after two decades in which we heard too many times the phrase "grand finale".
Why, is there a small one?
Corona coverage combined with election coverage
Well, just for this category it was worth devoting an entire article, since in the time of a year and a half that has passed since the onset of this damn epidemic, it is clear that the news editions have gone through every possible coverage phase, of course depending on public and online mood.
At first it was a great hysteria.
Professor Gabi Barbash has become a regular panel member on News 12, and over the course of several months we have been updated on the channel's best reporters and broadcasters on the hospitals that will soon collapse, the economy that will crash on us and of course - on our battle deaths.
Ridiculous splash instead of information coverage.
The Corona Department at Hadassah Ein Kerem, Oren Ben Hakon
Every evening they planted hysteria in our then-unvaccinated hearts, and sowed panic throughout the day's editions.
Then came that calm month, between one closure and another, and the Ulpan Shishi people, the same people who told us about the end of the battle, wondered if the government had just pressured us, and suddenly took the approach of Yoram Les, who insisted that the virus was no more harmful than dust mites.
"Yoram Les" model.
The skeptical professor in one of the thousands of panels, a screenshot
Later, when the virus returned for another round and this time brought with it friends, the editions returned to the mode of trolling, incorporating coverage of the war into an epidemic in the never-ending battle for prime minister. Seriously, how can one believe a body that has asserted that "there is no sticking to demonstrations," despite the same death that they pump us because it lurks in every corner? And what the hell is going on with Arad Nir and his war on vaccines? That the epidemic coverage was exemplary of irresponsibility and an obsession with sensations we already knew. But at least if uniform coverage lines were maintained it would still be able to track all this madness.
