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Where to Watch “Losing Alice”: Apple TV+ (the series originally aired on the Israeli TV network Hot 3)

For a show filled with different forms of temptation, it only makes sense that “Losing Alice” is told in a way that makes it appealing to try to solve it. From the opening scene, a brutal introduction to this world intended to be as disorienting as it is bloody, the viewer is a little at the mercy of the tangled web that writer/director Sigal Avin lays out over eight episodes.

Rather than keep the audience adrift (or present its story in a way that only makes sense with thorough unpacking), the show is rooted in Alice (Ayelet Zurer), a filmmaker at a career crossroads who wants to ditch her for-hire work and make a true artistic statement. One possibility gets dangled in front of her...

Netflix is canceling another original series.

Per Deadline, the streamer has canceled Hit & Run after a single season.

In this action thriller," a happily married man’s life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit and run accident in Tel Aviv," reads the logline.

"Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife’s killers, who have fled to the U.S."

"With the help of an ex-lover, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him."

The cast included Lior Raz, Sanaa Lathan, Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt, Gal Toren, Lior Ashkenazi, and Gregg Henry.

The series launched in early August with a nine-part season.

The streamer has not revealed viewership metrics to date, but it is thought the series failed to garner traction on par with the other new original series this season.

The streamer canceled Cursed,...

Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, the creatives behind the critically acclaimed political thriller “Fauda,” have extended their existing creative pact with Netflix following the success of their new action thriller, “Hit & Run.” The show, starring Raz as Segev Azulai, premiered last Friday and made its debut in Netflix’s Top 10.

“Hit & Run” centers on a happily married man, whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife’s killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of ex-lover Naomi Hicks (Sanaa Lathan), he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him. Other cast members include Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt, Gregg Henry, Lior Ashkenazi, Gal Toren and Neta Orbach.

The series is co-created and executive produced by Issacharoff and Raz, founders and...

What twists and turns will Segev encounter in the first season of the Hit & Run TV show on Netflix? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Hit & Run is cancelled or renewed for season two. Netflix and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Hit & Run here.

A Netflix action thriller series, the Hit & Run TV show stars Lior Raz, Sanaa Lathan, Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt, Gregg Henry, and Gal Toren. The story follows Segev Azulai (Raz), a regular-guy Tel Aviv tour guide who's married to Danielle (Ohm), a dancer from America. As she's about to depart for a big audition in...

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What's This TV Show About?

Streaming on the Netflix subscription service, the Hit & Run TV show stars Lior Raz, Sanaa Lathan, Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt, Gregg Henry, and Gal Toren. The story follows Segev Azulai (Raz), a regular-guy Tel Aviv tour guide who's married to Danielle (Ohm), a dancer from America. As she's about to depart for a big audition in New York City, Danielle is tragically killed in a hit-and-run. Grief-stricken and...

Network: Netflix

Episodes: Ongoing (hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: August 6, 2021 -- present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Lior Raz, Sanaa Lathan, Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt, Gregg Henry, and Gal Toren.

TV show description:

An action-thriller series, the Hit & Run TV show was created by Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz.

The story follows Segev Azulai (Raz), a regular-guy Tel Aviv tour guide who's married to Danielle (Ohm), a dancer from America. As she's about to depart for a big audition in New York City, Danielle is tragically killed in a hit-and-run.

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Lior Raz portrays a man seeking revenge after his wife is killed in a mysterious accident in Hit & Run, the latest thriller series from Netflix. The nine-episode arc premieres on August 6th on the streaming platform.

Raz, who is also a co-creator on the show, plays Segev Azulai, a happily married man whose wife is killed in a hit and run Tel Aviv. Suspecting that her death was no accident, the man goes searching for his wife’s killers, who have fled to the United States. In order to find them,...

HBO Max released the official trailer for the upcoming reality dating series “Fboy Island,” which will premiere on July 29.

Hosted by Nikki Glaser, the series follows three women, Nakia Renee, Cj Franco and Sarah Emig, who move to a tropical island where they’re joined by 24 men. Half of the men are “nice guys” also looking for a real relationship, while the others are self-proclaimed “f-boys” competing for a cash prize. By the finale, all will be revealed — who is a nice guy, who is an “f-boy” and who will the women ultimately choose. The series is a social experiment that asks the age-old question: can “f-boys” truly reform or do nice guys always finish last?

Glaser will executive produce alongside creator Elan Gale, Jason Goldberg, Ben Bitonti and showrunner Sam Dean.

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Paramount Plus announced that the live-action musical “The J Team” will premiere on Sept.

HBO Max has released a trailer for “Hacks,” an original series debuting on May 13.

The ten-episode season follows the dark relationship between a legendary Las Vegas comedian and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder star alongside Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Paul W. Downs, Mark Indelicato, Poppy Liu, Johnny Sibilly, Meg Stalter and Rose Abdoo.

“Hacks” is created and showrun by Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky. Downs, Aniello and Statsky executive produce alongside Michael Schur, David Miner and Morgan Sackett. The studio is Universal Television.

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Oprah Winfrey and Apple TV Plus have announced that Elliot Page will be featured on the next episode of “The Oprah Conversation,” debuting April 30. “The Oprah Conversation: Elliot Page” will present a deeply honest conversation with the actor, producer and lifelong social justice advocate. In a time when the rights of transgender...

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Losing Alice,” including the end.]

When filming the second-to-last episode of “Losing Alice,” writer-director Sigal Avin faced a challenge. Not only did the episode feature an extended sequence that required emotional vulnerability from everyone involved, but also in that moment Avin was a director directing a fictional director directing.

Buried within an incredibly focused and layered enterprise, on the most basic level possible Avin had to figure out how to differentiate herself from her filmmaker character Alice (Ayelet Zurer). Avin couldn’t even call “cut!” — that was in Alice’s dialogue, a cue for David (Gal Toren) and Sophie (Lihi Kornowski) to show their frustration.

“We had a code. I would yell ‘Chips!’ if I really wanted to cut, if it was Sigal wanting to cut the scene or just yelling ‘Cut’ so that they would know when to explode,” Avin said. “Those scenes were actually a bit of a mindfuck.

Exclusive: On the heels of the just-aired finale of its well-received new drama series The Chef, Fauda and Shtisel outfit Yes Studios is ordering a second course, officially giving the green light for a second season of the Israeli drama.

Created by Erez Kavel and Orit Dabush, the nine-episode drama launched in Israel last November and was the second most-watched drama on yesTV this year, following season three of crime-thriller hit Fauda.

The series comes from Yes Studios and Kastina Communications and follows an unemployed high-tech worker who starts working in the kitchen of a prestigious restaurant run by a brilliant chef, who is struggling to stay relevant and keep his place at the top of Tel Aviv’s ultra-competitive gastronomic world.

The drama explores toxic masculinity and the fragility of the male ego through the juxtaposition of the two male characters. The new cook is a family man collapsing...

In Losing Alice — an eight-episode Israeli series that premiered stateside this past weekend on Apple TV+ — a 48-year-old film director and mother of two, Alice (played by actress Ayelet Zurer), is feeling stuck professionally. She then meets, perhaps by chance, perhaps not, a young writer, Sophie (Lihi Kornowski) on a train who is a huge fan of her work. Small world: Sophie has written a script that is being made into a film starring Alice’s husband, a famous Israeli actor (played by Gal Toren). Soon after, Alice signs on to direct the project after its initial director has mysteriously disappeared....

In Losing Alice — an eight-episode Israeli series that premiered stateside this past weekend on Apple TV+ — a 48-year-old film director and mother of two, Alice (played by actress Ayelet Zurer), is feeling stuck professionally. She then meets, perhaps by chance, perhaps not, a young writer, Sophie (Lihi Kornowski) on a train who is a huge fan of her work. Small world: Sophie has written a script that is being made into a film starring Alice’s husband, a famous Israeli actor (played by Gal Toren). Soon after, Alice signs on to direct the project after its initial director has mysteriously disappeared....

Photo: ‘Losing Alice’/Apple TV Apple TV is proving itself to have a keen eye for talent because Sigal Avin demonstrates truly innovative Cinematic talent with her new drama series ‘Losing Alice’. A story about a screenwriter who’s lost their artistic edge, spark, and drive; it’s a tale as old as time, however, due to the creative freedom that’s at the nucleus of Apple TV’s production model, Sigal Avin steers ‘Losing Alice’’s narrative in a creatively novel direction that makes fascinating and engrossing artistic leaps within an otherwise classic Hollywood story. Related article: Fans of ‘The Crown’ Will Love ‘The Dig’: An Archaeological Meditation on Legacy in a Time of Crisis Related article: Bollywood Mega-Star Kajol’s ‘Tribhanga’: What Happens When Society Isn’t Ready For Progressive Feminism? Starring ‘Man of Steel’ and ‘Munich’ actor Ayelet Zurer, ‘The Burglar’ and ‘The Commune’ actor Lihi Kornowski,...

For a large majority of “Losing Alice,” the people on screen aren’t quite sure what’s happening. The unknowable nature of a partner’s true feelings, the confusion of fleeting glimpses of people who can’t physically be there, and the daily tiny frustrations of film production: all have the potential to make a shaky foundation for a drama series. Add on the idea that what the audience sees is often one fictional layer downward and there are plenty of chances for “Losing Alice” (premiering on Apple TV+ this week after airing on the Israeli TV network Hot 3 last summer) to lose its way.

It takes a steady hand and a clear eye to make sure that disorientation serves a purpose. Fortunately, writer/director Sigal Avin has both and plenty more.

After an enigmatic preamble, the series jump starts with the arrival of Sophie (Lihi Kornowski), an aspiring writer...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the first three episodes of “Losing Alice,” streaming now on Apple TV Plus.

At the start of Sigal Avin’s “Losing Alice,” the titular character, a successful filmmaker who has taken some time away from her work to raise a family, becomes engaged in conversation with an up-and-coming writer named Sophie (Lihi Kornowski). Sophie recognizes Alice as she sits across from her on a train and uses the seemingly chance encounter to tell her what a fan she is by pointing out Alice’s decade-old famous film was formative for her.

“It’s like saying, ‘That thing that you’ve done many, many, many years ago was so great [but] what are you doing now?’ It immediately raises the feeling that right now you’re nothing — right now you’re in the swamp of artistic death. She gives her a compliment,...

Exclusive: HBO Max has taken U.S. streaming rights to praised Hot series Uri and Ella.

Starring Shlomo Baraba and Dina Senderson, the 11-episode Israeli series will be available on the WarnerMedia streaming service this spring.

The deal was brokered by Hadas Mozes, co-founder and head of international at Israel-based Add Content Agency. Mozes also brokered the deal with HBO for Hot’s Euphoria, based on the acclaimed Israeli series. Mozes serves as an executive producer on the A24-produced Emmy-winning U.S. series starring Zendaya and created/exec produced by Sam Levinson, which also streams on HBO Max.

“We are proud and excited that another one of Hot’s original series was sold to HBO Max, and soon Uri and Ella will appear on television screens across the U.S.,” said Nadav Hanin, VP Content and Innovation at Hot. “This is yet another breakthrough for the Israeli TV industry,...

In today’s TV news roundup, ABC unveiled the premiere dates for its early 2021 scripted series, and NBC announced details for its annual “Christmas in the Rockefeller Center” special.

Casting

Starz cast Luis Guzmán as a guest star in the second season of crime drama “Hightown.” Guzmán will portray Jorge Cuevas, Frankie’s (Amaury Nolasco) charmingly hilarious but deadly cousin. Also joining the cast this season are guest stars Jona Xiao, Charline St. Charles and Dominic L. Santana. Production is currently underway for Season 2, with creator Rebecca Cutter making her TV directorial debut. Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison will direct two episodes and lead actor Monica Raymund, as well as Dawn Wilkinson, Radium Cheung and Eagle Egilsson are also tapped to direct.

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Food Network’s “Kid’s Baking Championship” will return with a ninth season premiere Dec. 28. The show, hosted by Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman, will feature a new twist,...

Israel’s leading pay TV group Yes Studios has unveiled a first-look teaser for its new drama series “The Chef” in the run-up to the series’ local launch on Yes TV in November.

Created by Erez Kavel and Orit Dabush, “The Chef” was selected at the Zurich Festival, Berlin TV Series Festival and the SerienCamp Festival in Munich. “The Chef” is the first drama launched by Yes Studios since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The show’s production was halted in mid-March when Israel went into full lockdown, and it was one of the first series to resume production once the restrictions were lifted in mid-June.

“The Chef” follows an unemployed high-tech worker who starts working in the kitchen of a prestigious restaurant run by a brilliant chef struggling to stay relevant and keep his place at the top of Tel-Aviv’s ultra-competitive gastronomic world.

“The Chef,” produced by Ayelet Imberman and Meny Aviram,...

Israel’s Yes Studios (“Fauda”) has unveiled a first look clip and photos of the anticipated third season of its hit Netflix drama “Shtisel,” and has announced two new shows, “The Chef” and “Embezzlement.”

“Shtisel,” whose first two seasons are available on Netflix, follows a Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckoning with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life.

Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, the series stars Michael Aloni, Doval’e Glickman, Neta Riskin, Sasson Gabai and Shira Haas, the star of Netflix’s “Unorthodox” who is nominated for an Emmy Award. “Shtisel” was produced by Abot Hameiri, a Fremantle company, and is directed by Alon Zingman.

The third season of “Shtisel” picks up four years after the events of the previous season. Comprising nine episodes, season three of the show started filming last month and will be airing on Yes TV in Israel later this year.

The Affair’s Sanaa Lathan and Scandal’s Gregg Henry are among the stars of Netflix’s upcoming action series Hit and Run.

The show, which comes from Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, the co-creators and exec producers of Netflix series Fauda, and Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, creators of the Amazon comedy Z: The Beginning of Everything, was handed a straight-t0-series 10 episode order in 2018.

Raz, who featured in Fauda as well as 6 Underground, also stars alongside Queen of Spades’ Kaelen Ohm and Fauda’s Moran Rosenblatt, while Para Aduma’s Gal Toren’s guest stars.

Created and written by Issacharoff, Raz, Prestwich and Yorkin, Hit and Run centers on a happily married man whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit and run accident.

Raz (left) plays Segev Azulai, a former special forces soldier who has since retired for a...

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