Israel’s ‘Greenhouse Academy’ teen drama heads to Portugal
The four-season TV show, adapted by Netflix, will also air in Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde
Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
Netflix’s Israeli teen drama “Greenhouse Academy” is heading to Portugal’s Biggs channel. All four seasons of the hit series were acquired by Biggs for Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. The show will be broadcast in English with Portuguese subtitles.
The Netflix series about gifted future leaders experiencing mysterious events at a private boarding school began airing in September 2017 and ended its run in July 2020.
The Netflix show, filmed in Israel, was an English-language remake of original Hebrew show “The Greenhouse” (“HaHamama”), created by Giora Chamizer for the Yes network.
Both the original version and the international remake were produced by Ananey Studios in Israel.
The Israeli remake of “Greenhouse Academy” for Netflix was the first time the giant entertainment company allowed one of its shows to be shot outside the US.
The Netflix show takes place at an elite Southern California boarding school, where students from two rival dormitories combine forces to thwart an evil plot.
The four-season Netflix show with 40 episodes was filmed on Israeli beaches and streets, as well as on backlot studios. The white stucco buildings of Tel Aviv dance center Suzanne Dellal were used as the exterior of the California boarding school and the production imported some 200 American food items for the school cafeteria.
“The production was in our hands,” said Chamizer, the showrunner and writer of both “Greenhouse Academy” and its Israeli predecessor. “The actors came here.”
The 2012 original Israeli series was about a prestigious boarding school in the Galilee attended by a brother and sister, and is also full of intrigue, teenage angst and romance.
