Tolerance on television
Tash Ma Tash has aired during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan for 17 years.
A two-part episode of the sitcom, called Uncle Boutros, showed the two main Saudi characters being advised by their dying father to visit the brother of their dead Lebanese mother.
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Hide AdAfter a tearful reunion, the pair discover their mother's relatives were Christians and Uncle Boutros was a priest. Despite initial shock, the brothers slowly come to respect their uncle's Christianity and his charitable deeds towards a Lebanese Muslim neighbour.
But some Saudi clerics were not impressed.
"A Muslim is allowed to praise only the one true religion, Islam," said Eissa al-Ghaith, a judge at the Justice Ministry, in remarks reported in a Sunday newspaper.