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Mad World, the film sales arm of Cairo-based Mad Solutions, has acquired the rights to Egyptian director Yomna Khattab’s family documentary 50 Meters ahead of its world premiere at Cph:dox.

The film follows Khattab as she struggles to make her first feature. While at a 50-meter swimming pool in Cairo, she turns the camera on her distant father and begins to connect with him by writing fictional scenes and drafting voice-overs for him.

The Egypt-Denmark-Saudi co-production is produced by Ahmed Amer of Cairo-based A.A. Films and Patricia Drati of Copenhagen-based Good Company Pictures.

The crew includes editors Gladys Joujou, who...

[This story contains spoilers from season two of Mo.]

“The way I would describe the season is bittersweet. Everything was bittersweet, and it felt that way throughout the entire season,” Mo Amer, the star, creator, writer and first-time director tells The Hollywood Reporter about the Netflix show’s second and final season.

The groundbreaking series, which debuted in 2022 and is executive produced by Ramy Youssef, centers Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee, and his family awaiting asylum for two years in the heart and heat of Houston, Texas. Celebrated not only for its rare centering of Palestinians, the show has been lauded for its expert balance of drama and comedy while exploring issues around immigration, religion, language and disability.

Following a critically acclaimed first season, Netflix announced in early 2023 that the half-hour comedy would be returning for a final eight episodes — an endeavor that took nearly two years. “We started the writing room, I believe, in late March, the first week in April.

The end of January 2025 brought us a great conclusion to Mo on Netflix, with the last episode of season 2 being the series finale. Going in before the show returned, we did know this would be the final season. And though it ends on a bittersweet note, I think the ending was great and what Mo has set out to do since season 1 was achieved.

Though Netflix has brought the show to an end, the creator, Mo Amer, still has more ideas for a potential Mo season 3 if Netflix, or maybe even another platform, would be interested. Ahead of the finale, Amer spoke with Variety about the season and that he "can't believe" it's the final one. Here's what he told the outlet:

“There’s so much to give, so it’s kind of ridiculous to only fit it into two seasons. All the love that we got the first season...

Mohammed Amer’s “Mo” is one of those shows that can make you laugh and cry at the same time. Centered around the life of a Palestinian refugee in Houston, Mo is funny, a little crazy, and deeply emotional. The show is loosely based on Amer’s life and his experience navigating the system in the United States as a Palestinian. While season one was a fun watch, the second season hits it out of the park and is simply one of the best comedy shows to binge-watch on Netflix.

Mo highlights how the situation in Palestine has always been challenging, and how it only worsened after October 7th, 2023. Mo and his family were refugees who had been waiting for twenty-two years for their asylum status. The idea of home thus becomes crucial and the constant uncertainty resulted in emotional outbursts and a sense of hopelessness. But instead of portraying...

It's great to have Mo back on our screens, even if the comedy-drama only lasted for two seasons. The titular character's infectious energy rubs off on you and makes for an interesting watch where you're invested in the character. The series has come to an end with the final eight episodes on Netflix, and here's what we thought about Mo season 2 overall. Spoilers Below.

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First thing's first. Yes, we do think Mo season 2 is definitely worth your time to watch! It's a really well done show that not only represents the Palestinian and Arab culture, but other groups as well. It's such a nice blend of cultures that educates, but entertains with the comedic aspect of the show at the same time. The series is timely not only with the fact that Mo is Palestinian, but also American politics as he is arrested by Ice after crossing...

Mo, the heartfelt, laugh-out-loud series inspired by co-creator, star, and executive producer Mo Amer’s own life, is back for a second season. The series centers Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee kicking it around Houston as he attempts to secure asylum, all the while juggling a Catholic girlfriend his mom disapproves of, a trunk full of bootleg Yeezys, and shenanigans galore from his group of daffy friends.

When it debuted in 2022, the inventive seriesearned legions of fans — as well as a Gotham and a Peabody Award — in large part because of how it walks the razor-thin tightrope between side-splitting hijinks and poignant, rarely-seen-onscreen vulnerability. “I’m thankful to continue to tell a universal story of struggle that relates to so many refugees and millions of underrepresented humans trying to be seen around the globe,” Amer tells Tudum. Amer is excited to “bring the people who loved and rooted for...

When we last saw Mo, it was the summer of 2022, and the comedy series, created by Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef, had just completed an excellent first season by stranding Amer’s Mo Najjar — a Palestinian asylum seeker living in Houston — on the wrong side of the U.S.-Mexico border. There was periodic talk of Mo’s Muslim faith and of his family’s hope that they could one day return to their homeland, but the show was primarily a light, wry comedy about the logistics of life as an undocumented immigrant.

Netflix’s acclaimed comedy-drama series Mo returns with its second and final season on January 30, 2025. All eight episodes will be available for streaming simultaneously, allowing fans to binge-watch the entire season. Here’s what we know about Mo Season 2 and its telecast.

Release Date & Time

Netflix typically releases new content at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time (Pt). Here’s when Mo Season 2 will be available in various time zones:

Pacific Time (Pt): 12:00 a.m. Mountain Time (Mt): 1:00 a.m. Central Time (Ct): 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time (Et): 3:00 a.m. Brasília Time (Brt): 5:00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 8:00 a.m. Central European Time (Cet): 9:00 a.m. Eastern European Time (Eet): 10:00 a.m. Moscow Standard Time (Msk): 11:00 a.m. Indian Standard Time (Ist): 1:30 p.m. China Standard Time (Cst): 4:00 p.

Are you ready for a new week full of must-watch new release TV shows? The year in television is officially in full swing with all of our small screen favorites returning from winter hiatus and streaming services continuing to drop some of the most highly anticipated new titles we have been waiting for. If you're in the middle of a show from last week, you'd better hurry up and finish!

Speaking of last week, Netflix at long last released one of the biggest releases of the new year, with The Night Agent season 2 finally arriving after nearly two years. The series shot straight to the peak of the streamer's top 10 most popular shows ranking. In addition to The Night Agent maintaining its hold, this week also brings new episodes of Severance, Prime Target, The Couple Next Door, and more.

Looking for something to watch this week but don't know where to start?...

“I’m finding it very, very hard to function,” says Mo Amer.

He’s spending the day at Hermann Park in Houston, the city where he’s lived since he was 9 years old. It’s late March and the air is still cool. Young parents guide their toddlers over twisted tree roots. Ducks quack in the distance. Amer, 43, is surrounded by a small but focused TV crew who are here to help him pull off his dream: showrunning and starring in the first Palestinian-led series in American history. But lately, world events have made it harder than ever to publicly celebrate his heritage.

Season 1 of “Mo,” which premiered on Netflix in August 2022, told a fictionalized version of Amer’s experience as a formerly undocumented refugee seeking asylum status in the U.S. Amer had toured as a stand-up comic for years, but the series cemented his place in the entertainment...

Peak TV or not, 2025 is poised to be a major year for Netflix. The oldest streamer in the biz retains a loyal customer base as well as an ad-based tier, and welcomes back multiple juggernaut shows for new seasons over the next twelve months.

The dust has barely settled on “Squid Game” Season 2 as we look ahead to Season 3, while the final “Stranger Things” installment arrives three years after its predecessor. Fan favorites “You” and “Wednesday” will return after taking a break in 2024, as will a handful of new shows with major stars and creative talent attached to them. A Taylor Kitsch and Peter Berg team up? Check. Shondaland murder mystery? Check. “Mindy Kaling sports comedy?” Check check check. Find all that and more in our 2025 Netflix preview, featuring fresh and returning shows you can stream very, very soon.

1. “American Primeval” (January 9)

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The first Los Angeles edition of the Peabody Awards on June 9 declared its intention to stand out from the awards-season pack by daring to address the complex real-world events in ways that other shows would never dare.

Where else would it befit host Kumail Nanjiani to make partition jokes in the guise of a bit about how Pakistan lost to the United States at the Icc Cricket World Cup? “Getting some perspective, it would be like Pakistan beating the USA at basketball,” the comedian said an appreciative applause.

Outside of Jonathan Glazer’s controversial Oscars speech, awards shows have steered clear of world issues for some time. However, to hear documentarian Laura Poitras end her Peabody Award acceptance speech for “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” with the declaration of “Free Palestine” had a resonance that no polite lapel pin could touch.

Early in the Sunday night program — shortly after...

Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is a sweet-natured and beautifully photographed portrait of a grumpy middle-aged guy, his sceptical wife and their teenage daughter

Here is the second feature from Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan, set in a Damascus suburb during the most brutal shelling of the civil war, among the remaining traumatised residents wondering whether to stay or leave as refugees heading for the Mediterranean. The resonant title means “displacement” and her images of the city, modified with some magic-realist effects, are very striking.

A middle-aged guy, Motaz (Samer al-Masry) is grumpily asserting his authority in front of his increasingly sceptical family: his wife is Hala (Kinda Alloush) and they are parents to teen daughter Zeina (Hala Zein), who is incidentally conspiring with her mother to suppress the news that she has started her period. She also likes a certain boy who keeps coming around – budding film-maker Amer (Nizar Alani...

Karim Amer has made documentaries about seismic geopolitical events as they unfolded before. In the Oscar-nominated documentary The Square — which he produced — footage of the chaos and carnage in Cairo’s Tahrir Square helped offer an uniquely immersive account of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

But nothing he’d made previously compares to Defiant, premiering in Toronto on Sep. 9 and capturing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the unique perspective of key decision makers in Kiev — including minister of foreign affairs Dmytro Kuleba — politicians suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into a wartime government.

“The stakes are so high, because it’s the largest conflict we’ve seen since WWII and anything could happen,” says Amer, who swapped his producer hat for director, teaming up with longtime producer Mike Lerner (The Square, Hell and Back Again) and Odessa Rae, a newly-minted Oscar-winner for Navalny.

Access is absolute key for a film like Defiant,...

Hello and welcome back to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast, I am your host Valerie Complex. On today’s episode we’re chatting with director-producer Dina Amer.

Amer is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She helped produce the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary The Square, in which the Egyptian Revolution was chronicled from the front lines. Growing up between the U.S. and Egypt, her work has focused on sharing nuanced, human stories with a global audience.

From documentary, she’s moved over to features and has debuted her first film, You Resemble Me, which tells the true story of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a woman falsely accused of being Europe’s first female suicide bomber.

At the time, police had confirmed the 26-year-old Boulahcen was the woman who died when she blew herself up during a police raid on an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis in the aftermath of the 2015 terror attacks in the city.

HBO is officially 50 years old, and we're celebrating the incredible entertainment the still-thriving network provided along the way.

It's hard to imagine that TV once featured a landscape without HBO, considering its impact on the television landscape. HBO boasts some of the best talents in television; this can be seen in the number of awards they have been nominated for and won throughout the years.

They have delivered many iconic TV shows with significant cultural impact. Their one-time slogan of "It's not TV, it's HBO" said it all, and their success can be attributed to delivering a solid roster of well-written, acted and produced shows.

We have compiled a list in reverse alphabetical order of 50 of the network's best shows that everyone should watch in their lifetime. It can be a starting point when deciding the next thing to watch or gathering knowledge in the case of an HBO trivia event coming your way.

Netflix has decided to air a little bit more of Mo. The comedy series, created by comedians Mo Amer and Ramy Youssef, has been renewed for a second and final season on the streaming service.

Starring Amer, Teresa Ruiz, Farah Bsieso, Omar Elba, and Tobe Nwigwe, the series follows a Palestinian refugee (Amer) on his journey to asylum in the US. The first season of eight episodes arrived on August 24th. A premiere date for the final episodes will be announced in the future.

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Netflix has renewed Mo season 2, which will be its last. Debuting in August 2022, the single-camera comedy series focuses on series lead Mo Amer as a fictionalized version of himself. Amer plays Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee who is perpetually just one step away from obtaining asylum in the U.S. Najjar lives with his family in Houston, Texas, and, across eight episodes, viewers see how Najjar has hilariously adapted to his new surroundings while getting a glimpse of the struggles that he continues to face. Mo also stars Farah Bsieso, Omar Elba, Teresa Ruiz and Tobe Nwigwe.

The show received strong reviews upon its debut, appearing on several lists for the best television shows of 2022. Now, according to Variety, Netflix has renewed Mo for a second and final season. Amer, who co-created the series with Ramy Youssef, shared in a statement that he was thankful for the opportunity to tell...

Netflix has renewed its comedy Mo for a second season — but it will also be the show’s last.

Ending after two seasons is by design: The second installment will wrap up Palestinian refugee Mo Najjar’s (co-creator and star Mo Amer) journey to gain asylum in Houston.

“I’m thankful to continue to tell a universal story of struggle that relates to so many refugees and millions of underrepresented humans trying to be seen around the globe, and to be able to bring the people who loved and rooted for Mo Najjar along for the ride as we close this chapter of his story,” Amer said in a statement.

Mo, which Amer co-created with Ramy Youssef, premiered in August 2022 to widespread critical praise. Above all else, Mo allows [the title character] to just be himself — and it’s that self-assured voice that makes the series such a treat to watch,” The Hollywood Reporter critic Angie Han wrote.

Good news: Mo has been renewed for a second season at Netflix.

Bad news: Season 2 will be its last.

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The streaming giant has renewed the critically acclaimed series for a final season, TVLine has learned. The news comes nearly five months after the release of Season 1, which dropped in its entirety on Aug. 24.

The bittersweet announcement comes...

“Mo” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix, which will also be the show’s final season, Variety has learned. The single-camera comedy debuted its first season on the streaming service in August 2022.

“I’m thankful to continue to tell a universal story of struggle that relates to so many refugees and millions of under-represented humans trying to be seen around the globe and to be able to bring the people who loved and rooted for Mo Najjar along for the ride as we close this chapter of his story,” said Mo Amer, series star, co-creator, and executive producer.

Amer stars as a fictionalized version of himself in the show. Per the official synopsis, “Mo Najjar straddles the line between two cultures, three languages and a ton of bulls–t as a Palestinian refugee living one step away from obtaining asylum in the U.S. His family — including his resilient...

Exclusive: Netflix has renewed Mo for Season 2,. It will be the praised comedy series last, bringing Mo Najjar’s journey for asylum to a conclusion.

Co-created and executive produced by Mo Amer, who stars in the titular role, and Ramy Youssef, Mo is inspired by Amer’s life. It follows Mo Najjar (Amer), who straddles the line between two cultures, three languages and a ton of bullsh*t as a Palestinian refugee living one step away from obtaining asylum in the U.S. His family — including his resilient mother and hilariously unfiltered brother — flee to Houston, Texas. Mo deftly adapts to his new world, but it’s tough to get ahead when you’re tied up in red tape.

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Mo Amer in Mo.

Amer’s natural, seemingly effortless knack for connection long has been one of his clearest strengths, whether in his stand-up comedy or in his recurring role on Ramy. In Mo, he proves equally able to dig into the darker, sharper corners. His easy smiles and rambling jokes take on layers of anxiety and sorrow as the character wrestles with drug addiction, generational trauma and the everyday frustrations of trying to scrape by in a country that would prefer to forget he exists. As creator and real-life inspiration for Mo, Amer steeps the entire project in his own perspective and identity — but it’s his performance that ties the whole thing together as he embodies the vibrant, empathetic spirit of the show through his irresistible star turn. — Angie Han

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A Syrian war film with a difference, Nezouh is a delicate and engrossing entry in Venice’s Horizons Extra section. Director Soudade Kaadan won Lion of the Future for 2018’s The Day I Lost My Shadow, and she continues to impress with this empathetic story of life under siege.

The focus is 14-year-old Zeina (Hala Zein), who lives in Damascus with her mother Hala (Kinda Alloush) and father Motaz (Samir al-Masri). Motaz is trying to keep the family together as the walls crumble around them and their neighbors flee, but his wife would rather become displaced than see him risk his life foraging in the war-torn streets. She seems even less keen to see Zeina married off to a fighter, as her other daughters have been, while a worse fate could await young women who stay.

When an explosion blasts holes through their walls and ceiling, Motaz busies himself hanging up flowery sheets,...

Dwayne Johnson's "Black Adam" is about to shake up the DC Extended Universe. Based on the character created by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck, Adam is an agent of extreme chaos. In the comic books, he is typically the archenemy of Shazam. In Jaume Collett-Serra's film, he will be portrayed as an antihero, one who has the potential to be a powerful ally of the Justice Society of America or one of its most dreaded foes.

As written by Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, the movie will introduce both Adam and the Jsa into the Dceu. Given that the beleaguered brand is attempting to right itself after years of aimless development, it's vitally important that "Black Adam" palpably connects with mainstream audiences. It won't be easy. There's a ton of backstory to cover in this film, which, if not cleanly conveyed, could prove to be a major...

Dwayne Johnson has been working on getting the DC/Warner Bros. movie "Black Adam" to the big screen for a long time. He's been attached to the project for over a decade, and all these years later, though Covid delays and reshuffling, it's finally happening. The film will show us both the origin of Teth-Adam, aka Black Adam, as well as his interactions with the Justice Society of America.

I recently attended an event with Johnson's co-stars Aldis Hodge, who plays Hawkman; Quintessa Swindell, who plays Cyclone; Sarah Shahi, who plays Adrianna Tomaz; and Mo Amer, who plays Kamir Tomaz. The cast had nothing but wonderful things to say about Johnson, with Shahi joking he was secretly triplets, with the amount of work he does on the film. 

Hawkman and Black Adam are at each other's throats throughout the story, but Johnson -- who also produces the film -- wanted...

The people behind “Mo” can say with a perfectly straight face that the new Netflix comedy starts off with guns blazing. Toward the end of the pilot episode, “Hamoodi,” Mo Najjar (Mo Amer) gets caught in a shooting in a grocery store — whether it’s a “mass” shooting ends up being a topic of debate for the EMTs on the scene. Either way, it’s just another damn thing that messes with Mo’s day, and is arguably less (spiritually) damaging than what happens right before, with Mo seeing samples for chocolate-covered hummus (yikes) and convincing the worker giving out the samples that his mom’s homemade olive oil is all you need.

The shooting itself is depicted through off-screen sound and hard cuts that focus the viewer’s eye on little moments of detail, conveying the shock of the situation. But it’s also a little hilarious, too: Those details include the ripped,...

The HBO documentary series “The Vow,” from filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will return for its second installment on October 17. The network shared a teaser for “The Vow Part Two” — a six-part continuation of the series, which became a sensation — with new episodes airing on subsequent Mondays.

The series follows the story of the Nxivm organization, and the second installment will be set against the backdrop of the federal trial of against Keith Raniere. It will offer looks into Raniere’s innermost circle, including Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman, who wasn’t interviewed for “The Vow,” but has been for this second installment. According to its logline, “The docuseries will chronicle the legal and emotional journeys of the group’s founders, supporters and defectors, as new evidence comes to light in a case at the forefront of the national spotlight.”

Raniere was sentenced to 120 years of imprisonment in October 2020, having...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched Season 1 of “Mo” on Netflix.

As I finish interviewing comedian Mo Amer and ask him if there’s anything else he’d like to talk about, he says, “I don’t have a lean addiction, nor have I ever been addicted to lean. I keep saying that every chance I can, because it gets weird out here.”

It’s an important distinction to make, as the mixture of prescription cough syrup, soda and candy has killed many, especially in Houston, where Amer grew up. He is the co-creator, executive producer and star of “Mo,” a comedy-drama series that heavily draws from his true experiences as a refugee — his parents were displaced from Palestine to Kuwait where Amer was born, before the whole family fled to Texas during the Gulf War. Several of the show’s most painful moments — like when,...

Netflix’s new series Mo begins almost like The Sopranos. We see a heavyset figure (the comedian Mo Amer) drive to work. The shots alternate between Mo, smoking a cigarette and bopping to the sounds of “Sittin’ Sidewayz” by Paul Wall and Big Pokey, and half-glimpsed shots of the world he passes – not New Jersey but Houston, Texas. He arrives at work (a tech repair shop) and is abruptly sacked, amid fears that the business will be targeted in an immigration crackdown (Mo is a Palestinian refugee). Later in the episode, he is caught up in a random shooting at a supermarket; he gets a bullet in the arm but, uninsured, he refuses to go to hospital. Does this sound much like comedy to you?

Obviously not, you might think. But Mo is not your traditional sitcom. Created by Amer and comedian Ramy Youssef, the eight-episode series, which draws from...

At a Texan courthouse, while waiting for his family’s number to be called for a long-awaited hearing, Mo (Mo Amer) starts having a sweaty meltdown at precisely the least convenient moment. Fresh off a fight with his girlfriend Maria (Teresa Ruiz), worried sick for his mother, Yusra (Farah Bseiso), and in disbelief that his Palestinian refugee family might actually be getting the asylum they’ve needed for so long, Mo’s so overwhelmed and impatient that he can barely stay in his seat. As with most every episode of “Mo,” Netflix’s new series created by Amer and Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”), the stakes are as high as Mo’s escalating blood pressure.

But “Mo” is also a comedy with a fast-talking lionheart at its center, and as such, even this incredibly stressful time can vibrate with frissons of the ridiculous. Mo tussles with a security guard who refuses to...

Netflix’s new series Mo begins almost like The Sopranos. We see a heavyset figure (the comedian Mo Amer) drive to work. The shots alternate between Mo, smoking a cigarette and bopping to the sounds of “Sittin’ Sidewayz” by Paul Wall and Big Pokey, and half-glimpsed shots of the world he passes – not New Jersey but Houston, Texas. He arrives at work (a tech repair shop) and is abruptly sacked, amid fears that the business will be targeted in an immigration crackdown (Mo is a Palestinian refugee). Later in the episode, he is caught up in a random shooting at a supermarket; he gets a bullet in the arm but, uninsured, he refuses to go to hospital. Does this sound much like comedy to you?

Obviously not, you might think. But Mo is not your traditional sitcom. Created by Amer and comedian Ramy Youssef, the eight-episode series, which draws from...

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Late in the first episode of Netflix’s Mo, the title character (played by Mo Amer, who also co-created the series with Ramy Youssef) gets shot while shopping for cat food. Well, grazed — he’ll be fine once he’s treated at the hospital, the paramedics reassure him. Mo panics, as freaked out by the prospect of running up a medical bill without health insurance as he is by the fact of what’s actually happened to him. Meanwhile, the jaded EMTs bicker over his gurney about whether the shooting counts as “mass” if only four people were hit, including the shooter.

The scene feel darkly funny and a touch surreal, in the way the most harrowing moments of real life often do. It’s a distinctive example of what Mo does so well. Over eight half-hour episodes, the dramedy keeps itself afloat...