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- 2023
- Prime Video
- 2023
- Prime Video
Summary Ceri Isfryn's three-part documentary series about the rise and fall of tabloid reporter, Mazher Mahmood, who tricked pop stars, sports executives and even the Duchess of York he was a wealthy Arab sheikh.
- 2023
- Prime Video
- 2023
- Prime Video
The Fake Sheik
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 26, 2023
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Summary Ceri Isfryn's three-part documentary series about the rise and fall of tabloid reporter, Mazher Mahmood, who tricked pop stars, sports executives and even the Duchess of York he was a wealthy Arab sheikh.
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The Fake Sheikh weaves an intriguing web around its central subject. It might not feature any interviews with Mazer Mahmood. But the docuseries delves into the structure and mechanics of his sting operations, tries to get at what drove his ruthless nature as a journalist, and allows space for the people who populated his scandal-dripping headlines to tell their side of the story.
As for Isfryn, she is half in love with her subject, reconstructing stings in Lanzarote hotels, Dubai yachts and Costa del Sol fleshpots with glossy production values as though this was a mashup of Ocean’s Eleven, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and, well, The Sting. .... She overindulges in the glee at his downfall by interviewing victims of his work.
It shoots straight down the middle, a fair approach that results in a pretty bland product.
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Production Company:
- Factual Fiction
- Voltage TV
Initial Release Date: Sep 26, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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