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Apple TV+ has teased a trailer of global espionage thriller Tehran season two, starring Glenn Close. Close joins Moshe Zonder, Dana Eden and Maor Kohn’s show as Marjan Montazeri, a British woman living in Tehran. The eight-part series, which launches on May 6, tells the thrilling story of a Mossad agent who goes deep…

The French comedy Call My Agent and Israeli drama Tehran took the top prizes at the 49th annual International Emmys, which here handed out Monday night during an in-person ceremony in New York. See the full list of winners below. The UK boasts both top acting honors David Tennant for crime thriller Des and Hayley…

Coming off her Oscar-nominated role in Hillbilly Elegy, Glenn Close has joined Tehran as a lead in Season 2 of Apple TV+’s international espionage thriller series. Close will play the new series role of Marjan Montazeri, a British woman, living in Tehran. I hear Close is a big fan of the series, from Moshe Zonder and…

Paper Entertainment, the co-producer of Apple TV+ drama Tehran, has secured investment from British broadcaster Channel 4. Through its Indie Growth Fund initiative, Channel 4 has taken a minority stake in Julien Leroux’s production outfit, which he established in January after serving as the senior VP of global…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has renewed its first non-English-language original series, Israeli espionage thriller drama Tehran, for a second season. Apple TV+ stepped in to co-produce with Israeli broadcaster Kan 11 Season 1 of Tehran, from Moshe Zonder and Omri Shenhar, and carry internationally the Israel-Iran spy…

UPDATED with premiere date: Apple TV+ on Thursday said the eight-episode Losing Alice will premiere Friday, January 22 with the first three episodes, with the additional episodes to bow weekly on Fridays. In June, Apple acquired global rights to neo-noir thriller from creator, writer and director Sigal Avin after it…

As the final episode of Tehran is dropped on Apple TV+ today, Deadline caught up with the espionage thriller’s breakout Israeli star Niv Sultan on the role that has turned heads in Hollywood. Sultan plays Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad computer hacker-agent who is tasked with disabling an Iranian nuclear reactor on her very…

WME has signed Niv Sultan, the breakout Israeli star of Apple TV+’s spy thriller Tehran. Sultan headlines the eight-part drama, playing Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad computer hacker-agent undertaking her very first mission in Iran's capital, which is also her place of birth. She started her career in Israel, starring in…

The first week of the 2020-21 television season is almost over, with some of the best saved for last. But before we go there and unveil the show you have to watch this week, let's jump back a bit. As I note in this week’s video review, last week saw the launch of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest prequel Ratched on…

EXCLUSIVE: "We are Israelis, we can't land in Tehran," a very worried passenger (Yakir Shukrun) says in the tense opening minutes of AppleTV+'s new spy thriller Tehran. As you can see in the video above, what seem like a holiday jaunt to India suddenly turns potentially deadly for an Israeli duo due to some engine…

Apple TV+ will premiere Tehran, the espionage thriller it is co-producing with Israeli broadcaster Kan 11, on September 25 internationally. Apple will drop the first three episodes, before switching to weekly installments every Friday. Distributed by Cineflix Rights, the eight-part series features young Israeli…

Apple TV+ has come aboard Israel-Iran espionage thriller Tehran, taking the international rights to the series outside of Israel, where it is being broadcast by Kan 11. Distributed by Cineflix Rights, the eight-part series features young Israeli actress Niv Sultan as Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad computer hacker-agent…