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Surprised by his creation crossing international borders, Ido Rosenblum, who hosted the show, told Channel 12 that “legal or not, in the end of the day, people both in Israel and Iran, enjoy game shows with bombs.”
While Iran’s version was not officially licensed, the gameshow had been sold to dozens of countries, including Argentina, France, Vietnam, Spain, Kazakhstan and the United States.
Ido Rosenblum lights the fuse on ‘Boom!,’ Keshet’s primetime game show (Courtesy Keshet)
“I never thought the words ‘Iran put its hands on an Israeli bomb’ would be so strangely flattering and amusing,” Rosenblum said, adding that culture and entertainment has “the ability to bridge the gaps and maybe even reduce tensions, in the most unexpected ways.”