User:Skdelom/sandbox

Translation of Al Bernameg("The Show";البرنمج) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bernameg

Idea of the Program

Bassam Youssef was and is a surgeon who worked in the United States for several years. After he visited Egypt during the events of the revolution on January 25, he was one of the volunteer civilian doctors in Tahrir Square for victims in ambulances and witnessed numerous influential heroic and tragic stories. He saw astonishing injuries like when attacks against some of the famous people who participated in the revolution in the square like Mohammad Khalifa, who worked for a tv network. After submitting some of the episodes, Youssef achieved overwhelming success on a social network and exceeded 1 million views, the most video views in Egypt. He continued submitting shows for a period of 3 months until he decided to sign a contract with the channel Online TV and transformed the show to a weekly program on TV.

Seasons

Season 1

After the former success achieved, the show obtained a program on the channel Online TV. The first broadcast of an episode under the new name in August 2011 and the season continued for a full year. It achieved great success until Bassam Youssef decided that it would switch networks because of his desire to air the program on real TV modeled after Jon Stewart’s program The Daily Show. He succeeded in switching to CBC for the 2nd season. He prepared and renewed the Radio Theater in downtown Cairo and the first broadcast of the episodes was in November 2012. The program has continued until now.

Season 2

For season 2, Bassam Youssef switched networks to CBC, and Al Bernameg changed to be more like Jon Stewart’s program. The Program was hosted at the Radio Theater in front of a live audience. The program varied through its segments, starting with sarcastic commentary on current events, then the host interviews famous figures from different fields and the episodes end with different artistic talents in each episode. The episodes were broadcast every Friday.

Season 3

Bassam Youssef announced on Twitter that Al Bernameg would be presented completely for another season. The first broadcast of the show in the third season was on the channel CBC was on Friday October 25, 2013. CBC announced that it would stop broadcasting Al Bernameg due to a lack of commitment to its controversial political commentary and business problems. The board of directors of the channel confirmed in a statement that the content of Al Bernameg violated their content policy.

Season 4

After an interview with Ali Jaber, it was announced that Al Bernameg would move to MBC. The first episodes of the season were shown on February 7, 2014.

Sources

^ https://twitter.com/DrBassemYoussef/status/387875628982087680 ^ http://www.elaosboa.com/show.asp?id=24525&page=localnews#.UnSQKRbvw9c ^ "الفجر نيوز: هل يفجر باسم يوسف مفاجأة لجمهوره بالانتقال لـ MBC قريبا ؟". ^ "باسم يوسف ينضم لـ" إم بي سي" مصر". إرم نيوز، 2 فبراير, 2014. ^ باسم يوسف مرشح لجائزة "أفضل برنامج في العالم"، omg!، تاريخ الوصول 12 مارس 2013. ^ «يوتيوب» يكرّم «البرنامج» و«إيش إللي» لتجاوزهما المليون مشاهد، جريدة المدينة، تاريخ الوصول 21 أكتوبر 2013.