{"id":12177,"date":"2019-10-22T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/new-turkish-drama-commissioned-bein-connect\/"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:47:43","slug":"new-turkish-drama-commissioned-for-bein-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/new-turkish-drama-commissioned-for-bein-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"New Turkish Drama Commissioned for beIN CONNECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish pay-TV operator Digiturk and producer Ay Yapim have teamed up for a new drama series that will be streamed exclusively on the OTT platform beIN CONNECT.<\/p>\n<p>The drama, titled <em>The Choice<\/em>, explores the life of Irfan (played by Halit Ergen\u00e7), an idealist professor of economics who is upset by his unfair dismissal and is trying to care for his 7-year-old son who is sick. As the doors close one by one, Irfan finds himself in the middle of a dark adventure that he can\u2019t escape, while his wife (played by Nur Fettaho\u011flu) turns to help from his childhood friends, including Egemen (played by Ozan G\u00fcven).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Choice<\/em> is directed by Ulu\u00e7 Bayraktar and written by N\u00fcket B\u0131\u00e7ak\u00e7\u0131 and \u00d6zlem Y\u00fccel. The first season has 13 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first original series that Digiturk has released since beIN acquired the company in 2016. beIN\u2019s entertainment division is set to launch a number of original series within the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Yousef Al-Obaidly, CEO of Digiturk and beIN MEDIA GROUP, said: \u201cOur ambition is to become one of the leading entertainment groups in the world and the production of <em>The Choice,<\/em> the first Turkish original series commissioned by beIN, is testament to that as we can create outstanding pieces of original content. Thanks to our exclusive partnerships with a range of Hollywood entertainment houses, and our very own Miramax studios, beIN holds an extensive library of blockbusters while having a growing presence in series and movie production and distribution. It\u2019s a hugely exciting time for everyone in our entertainment business and for all our consumers around the world, with more original content to be produced in the next 12 months.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish pay-TV operator Digiturk and producer Ay Yapim have teamed up for a new drama series that will be streamed exclusively on the OTT platform beIN CONNECT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":12178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1322,3432,2606],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-ay-yapim","tag-bein-connect","tag-digiturk","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Turkish Drama Commissioned for beIN CONNECT - 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