El Bernameg
| Al-Bernameg البرنامج |
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| Genre | News satire |
| Created by | Bassem Youssef |
| Written by | Bassem Youssef Khalid Mansour Ayman Wattar Shadi Alfons Mohamed Andil Hesham Mansour (season 1) Mostafa Helmy (season 1) |
| Directed by | Mohamed Khalifa |
| Starring | Bassem Youssef |
| Theme music composer | Mostafa Al-Halawany |
| Country of origin | Egypt |
| Original language(s) | Arabic |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 153 Al-Bernameg Season 3 (11 episodes) Al-Bernameg Season 2 (29 episodes) Al-Bernameg Season 1 (104 episodes) B+ show (9 episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Bassem Youssef Amr Ismail |
| Location(s) | Cairo, Radio Theatre (2012-2014) Cairo, ONTV studio (2011) |
| Running time | Varies (about 60mins) |
| Production company(s) | EgyTheaters BIG Production (2014) Qsoft Ltd. (2011-2013) |
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MBC MASR (2014-2014) DW- rerun rights (2014-2014) Capital Broadcast Center (2011-2013) ONTV (2011-2012) YouTube Channel 2011 |
| First shown in | February 2014-June 2014 (MBC MASR) November 2012–November 2013 (CBC (Egypt)) August 2011-May 2012 (OnTV) |
| External links | |
| [[1] Website] | |
Al-Bernameg (Arabic: البرنامج, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [elberˈnæːmeɡ], literally "The Show") was an Egyptian news satire program. The show was hosted by Bassem Youssef on the free-to-air channel MBC MASR and reruns are aired on Deutsche Welle; it was formerly broadcast on the satellite channels CBC and OnTV Egypt. Bassem Youssef announced on 2 June 2014 that the show was cancelled.
Its satirical style, willing to poke fun at powerful personages across the political spectrum, has led the press to compare it with The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for the show. Bassem Youssef visited The Daily Show as a guest in June 2012 and April 2013, while Stewart, on hiatus from his own hosting duties, returned the favour on 25 October 2013. On 1 November 2013, the show was pulled from CBC over differences with the broadcaster. The suspension of the show raised questions about media freedom in Egypt following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. In early 2014, MBC MASR picked up the show, airing its first episode on 7 February 2014.
Following the 18-day-protests of the Jan 25th revolution, The B+ Show was created by Tarek AlKazzaz and Bassem Youssef, as a political satire show commenting on the events and how the mainstream media presented them. Together they teamed up with Amr Ismail as Producer and Mohamed Khalifa as Director of a 5-minute episode for online viewing.
The B+ Show was named after Youssef’s blood type; B+, and was shot entirely in Youssef’s laundry room with one table, one chair, one camera and a banner with amateur images of Tahrir Square.
For every five-minute episode, Youssef and his team used to watch up to ten hours of videos for research to help them write the script.
Uploaded for the first time in May 2011, The B+ Show gained more than five million views in the first three months alone, on its YouTube Channel.
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