"Gümüş," a Turkish melodrama originally broadcast in Turkey by Kanal D from 2005-2007, followed the travails of a beautiful young woman who marries into a wealthy family.
MBC, the Arab world's leading free-to-air TV net, dubbed it into Arabic using a colloquial Syrian dialect rather than formal, classical Arabic, made the Turkish sudser "Nour," a pop-culture phenomenon when it aired across the Arab world last year. The show's final episode attracted a record 85 million Arab viewers when it aired last Aug. 30.
The success of "Nour" for MBC has sparked a boom in dubbed Turkish dramas across many leading Arab sat-casters.
MBC, the Arab world's leading free-to-air TV net, dubbed it into Arabic using a colloquial Syrian dialect rather than formal, classical Arabic, made the Turkish sudser "Nour," a pop-culture phenomenon when it aired across the Arab world last year. The show's final episode attracted a record 85 million Arab viewers when it aired last Aug. 30.
The success of "Nour" for MBC has sparked a boom in dubbed Turkish dramas across many leading Arab sat-casters.