Amy Poehler, BBC America Buy Rights to Israeli Army Girls Comedy

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By Maia Efrem June 3, 2016

BBC America has secured the rights to adapt “Zero Motivation,” an Israeli female-centric comedy about army life with Amy Poehler’s production company, Paper Kite Productions.

Variety reports that “Zero Motivation,” a feature length film that premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, will be adapted as a television series for American audiences and will be written by Tami Sagher (“Girls,” “Inside Amy Schumer”), jointly produced with Natasha Lyonne (“Orange is the New Black”) and Israeli filmmaker Talya Lavie, who created the film.

The critically acclaimed dramedy won two awards at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for 12 Ophir awards, winning six of them.

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Maia Efrem is the former research editor and assistant to the editor and was also responsible for the Forward’s annual Salary Survey. Previously she served as the editor of Blognik Beat, a blog written by students who emigrated from or have ties to the Former Soviet Union. Maia is a graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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