Thursday 05 March 2026 – 09:59 PM
Director Mohamed Sami commented on the statements of the artist Amr Saad, that his series Evraj, which is currently being shown during the Ramadan season, is the most watched in the last 10 years. Sami explained that the most watched is his series Jaafar El Omda, starring the artist Mohamed Ramadan, denouncing Amr Saad’s statements.
Mohamed Sami said, in a video on his Facebook account: The idea of number one caught my attention to a dear colleague of mine who is a star. He made a video in which he was holding some documents and saying, “I am the number one series.” Well, the number one series needs to make an effort so that one understands that this is number one, two, or a thousand. Number one is content that is well-received by the public and gets circulated on the street. You open the Internet and find it, and you sit for coffee and find people talking about it. It is a series that is popular and remains number one. Or from the first numbers, and there is something called documentation like the platforms in the homes where people subscribe to them and you find the top 10 series because people watch them according to computer calculations, but it is a very difficult idea that you can say who watched what on TV. Will you be able to know from where at 9 o’clock someone is watching what? There are efforts made by respectable companies that try to reach things, but the degree to which this is 100% accurate with logic, everyone can think about it.
Mohamed Sami continued: Today, I am like a star when I come to leave the platform where I am number 7 and say that I am number one on television, which I cannot prove, then this is wrong, because when Jaafar Al-Omda was number one on television and in the street, he was number one on the platforms. When any series for my colleagues who are better than me is also number one, it remains number one in every place, so I cannot try to prove to the public the idea that I am number one in my series in the thing that is not clear with two cards in my hands, all people. With a remote, you can open the platforms and see who is number one. It is clear to the audience that a series number 7 or 10 on a platform cannot remain number one on television.
Mohamed Sami added: When I say my series is the highest rated in the last 10 years, the audience laughs at you all the time, as my dear colleague said. You have never been higher than the series Jaafar the Mayor, the Legend and the Prince. I am not misleading the audience. There are 100,000 sects who watch television. I cannot ignore it and say that the series is rated in the last 10 years. If you asked a question now, what is the most popular series in the last 10 years in the series? Jaafar Al-Omda is a phenomenon. There is no other series that has reached this state of popularity, and this is according to the testimony of our colleagues. As we say, the Ramez Galal program is a phenomenon and there is no Egyptian house that does not open it.
He continued: There is no such thing as my highest series in the last 10 years. The public knows very well and does not need anyone to say it. When we tell the public we say this for documentation, because it is easy for anyone who has succeeded or not to say, “I am number one.” A trend with 75 pounds says, “I am number one.” Number one has connotations with the audience. This word, “number one,” has become fanaticism.
