In recent years, “true crime” style documentaries have conquered the world. Crooks and pretenders, mShimon Hayut – “The Tinder Scam” – who presented himself as the son of the tycoon Lev Leviev and swindled women out of millions of dollars, until Anna Sorokina young Russian woman who pretended to be a German heiress of millions under the name Anna Delby, and thus managed to sneak money from banks, escape from hotels without paying and defraud her fellow millionaires and won a feature series based on her story on Netflix.
With the success of the trend in the world, the commercial channels are also jumping on the crime bandwagon, and last night the two main channels presented their own crime docu-films.
After in February “Network 13” had already managed to ride the wave created by “The Tinder Scam”, with re-editing and broadcast of a film that she filmed Miri Michaeli On March 21, Keshet 12 also decided to approach the story of young Leviev – and this time with an interesting addition.
in the film of Chaim Etgar “The Woman Who Brought Down the Tinder Scammer”, Kate Conlin, who was in a relationship with Simon Leviev when the affair broke and for a year and a half, revealed for the first time the big secret that Simon is hiding. In the promos for the episode, the threats that Leviev sent to Conlin were broadcast: “Want a war, no problem,” Leviev tells her in a message in a sneak peek of the episode. “I’ll take your phones off, I paid for them, I’ll declare them stolen. You slut, you slut, you stinker. I’ll crush you, no man will go out with you, they won’t touch you with a stick.”
“I’ll download your Instagram tomorrow, whatever you want,” added the “Tinder swindler.” “Want a war? Let’s have a war. Look at this, and I’ll tell you this in English as well. Every action will have a reaction. Are you smarter? Let’s go, no problem. Come on, good luck.”
Simon Leviev threatens the ex before the disclosure of Haim Etgar (courtesy of Keshet 12)
It seems that the interest surrounding Leviev refuses to die down, and the first part of Haim Etgar’s film achieved a nice figure of 16.7 percent ratings and 388 thousand viewers last night.
At the same time, “Network 13” chose to return to another crime story that stirred up Israel. Bar Ben Saadon andA flooded tributary There were a couple of normal young people who wanted the wedding of their dreams. The love story between them developed and they were drawn into a life of luxury, entertainment and drug use. When the money ran out, Bar was afraid that his love would leave him and was willing to give his life to finance the life she longed for. This love led to a chain of robberies of bank branches in Gush Dan in 2017. “The Todo Boom robbers”, the police called them, following the text messages the two exchanged between them after a successful robbery: “I’m on my way home, Todo Boom”.
in the films of Eli Senior And Miri Michaeli, in a rare interview from prison, Ben, the “Todo Boom” robber, told about the unbelievable love story that led him to rob banks, and revealed how when he was caught by the police, he did everything to save his lover Yuval from prison.
‘True Crime’ sneak peek: The Todo Boom Bandits are revealed for the first time. Courtesy of network 13.
The “Network 13” movie was content with less than half of those of “The Tinder Scam” and ended the evening with an 8.6 percent rating and 216,000 viewers.
“Carthage” of “Kan 11” settled for 4 percent and 100 thousand viewers.
In the news channel, last night the Keshet 12 edition was in the lead, receiving a 13.5 percent rating and 361,000 viewers, over the “Network 13” edition, which received an 8.1 percent rating and 225,000 viewers. At the same time, the news edition of “Kan 11” received 5 percent and 125 thousand viewers.