In a message sent back to Washington DC, officials at the US Embassy in Jeddah said the shows, starring Jennifer Aniston and Eva Longoria, were successfully undermining the spread of jihadist ideas among the country's youth.
Such programmes, broadcast with Arabic subtitles on several Saudi satellite channels, were part of a push by the kingdom to foster openness and counter extremists, according to the cable.
The officials said the policy was succeeding in a way that Al-Hurra, a television news station funded by the US, never could. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
