Perhaps what makes OSNs work in the Middle East region unique besides its investment in high-quality Arabic productions is its efforts to involve young Arab talent in its projects. Today, the pay TV operator has quietly developed workshops in a few select countries in the Arab world. Each workshop comprises a team of young writers […]
Perhaps what makes OSNs work in the Middle East region unique besides its investment in high-quality Arabic productions is its efforts to involve young Arab talent in its projects. Today, the pay TV operator has quietly developed workshops in a few select countries in the Arab world. Each workshop comprises a team of young writers who work together with an established writer to develop scripts for the networks Arabic productions.
We have created these workshops and brought in young writers. It gives young people a chance to work on real productions while it also helps us to maintain that edginess and creative spark. At the same time, they work under established writers and that ensures that the scripts are slick and professional, explains Abu-Homos. More importantly, OSN feels confident to now introduce a format to the show for the second series.
We are introducing a format to the show in the second season, where you have one theme running on Mondays so people start relating the Monday episodes to each other and likewise, on each day of the week. The bigger picture is the full format but each weeks episode relates more closely to the next one.
We have done various subjects that talk about issues in Saudi society but from the 40 issues we explored in the previous season, we will take five or six topics that our research shows us has been the most successful and will develop a continuity, adds Abu-Homos.
The uniqueness and originality of Hindistani was celebrated at the ASBU BroadcastPro Awards that were held in November 2011 in Dubai, where the drama series was awarded the Best Arabic Drama Production award for 2011.
