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Over the course of four social experiments, expert and host Sascha Lobo reveals the major mechanisms of opinion shaping in social media. A panel of eight social media users ranging from occasional to hyperactive learn through those experiments how precisely the social media machinery can model their personalities and how their opinions can be manipulated by fake news.

The launch was supported by a multiplatform strategy involving Facebook Live interviews with our host and an online platform enabling users to discuss the experiments with the host. The highlight was a major marketing crossover with ZDF’s exhibition at re:publica, one of the world’s largest conferences on digital culture.

Produced by: Doclights

The Manipulation Game —How social media influence our views

Format

Ever wondered how much you could get for that dusty relic in the attic? Cash or Trash is the hugely popular daily show that uncovers the price of the public’s treasures and hidden heirlooms.

In each episode, owners become sellers looking to get the highest price for their items from the panel of dealers. Will these amateur sellers go home with cash or will it just be trash? It is the rummage show allowing everybody to make bank. A well-known host and his team of antique experts stand by to examine everybody’s treasures and learn about their stories. The Dealer Card grants owners of valuable objects the right to a direct sell to 5 professional dealers. The story is what determines the price, and, with some nifty bargaining, some trash can be turned into lots of cash. Lots of treasures, cut-throat bargaining, complete with laughter — Cash or Trash offers all of that.

Cash or Trash

Produced by: Warner

Format

55’Docutainment

570 episodes aired

60’Docutainment

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Why do people go to war against each other? The latest groundbreakingformat 1, 2-War? will answer that question. Two teams, not knowing whatawaits them, are kept in a controlled setting under 24 / 7 surveillance.Manipulating them into conflict situations is master psychologistChristopher Lesko. Aggression will escalate in game-show competitions.Reality TV meets nailbiting tension, cutting-edge suspense is combinedwith world-class entertainment. Will rivalry and aggression win over trust,will war prevail over peace?

This multi-layered experiment also has a very important innovativeelement: Everything will be shown; each step of the production will beexplained and provide a detailed look behind the scenes. As the tempersbecome shorter and the conversations more biting, the budding warriorsturn physical — and dangerous. The War has begun.

Produced by: Doclights

1, 2-War?

Sound, sight, touch, smell, taste — It’s the believe-it-or-not game show where the star is nature itself and the tricks it loves to play on us. The objective is to fool prominent guests into believing their senses when, in fact, their senses are pulling the wool over their eyes!

You Can’t Fool Me! think the celebrities, just as their senses are going haywire. Is it hard to trick one’s senses? With a variety of exciting experiments and challenges, the candidates — and the viewers — have fun being led down the garden path without knowing it!

Every day we’re fooled by illusions. And over the years, the show’s host has gathered lots of experience and knows just how optical illusions, acoustical tricks or inexplicable smells work. Whoever is the most trick-resistant of the candidates by the end of the show can proudly proclaim You Can’t Fool Me!.

You Can’t Fool Me!

Produced by: wellenreiter.tv

Format

45’Docutainment

4 episodes aired

90’Game Show

5 shows aired

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All age groups love party games — so ZDF introduces the new family show The Game Begins! The Big Show for 3 to 99, in which a team of celebrities takes on the challenges posed by a variety of games. Next to the classics there are skill, reaction games, action and sports games, memory tests, strategy games, but also brand-new games. The opposite team consists of children — and are they eager to win! In several rounds, celebrities compete against 1, 2 or 3 kids. After the big finale, the winning team is announced.

Produced by: BSB Film- und TV Produktion & MBTV, Berlin

The Game Begins180’

Curious, surprising, bizarre — the focus of this TV quiz show is pure, 100 % entertainment! Two teams of celebrities face their opponents with razor-sharp wit as they grope to answer the oddest questions on TV. The showmaster, in his turn, introduces all types of amazing people and places. Particularly amusing are the celebrities’ heated discussions and witty speculations about the correct answer, which, of course, is something you’d never have imagined!

You’ll Never Get It!

Produced by: wellenreiter.tv

90’Quiz ShowGame Show

Format Format

When do aspiring young songwriting talents get a chance like this! Inthe contest format Your Song, youngsters up to the age of 18 get achance to present their original songs to a TV audience. Each year,hundreds of youths respond to the call to compete in the nationwidecontest by submitting works in all musical genres.

Produced by: BSB Film- und TV Produktion & MBTV, Berlin

Your Song16 x 25’ + 1 x 100’

It’s the nation’s toughest quiz, with challengers duking it out against 5 celebrity experts in a battle of knowledge. 5 different categories await them — such as sports, music, politics, history etc. — only the candidate doing better than the experts in the major fields of general knowledge has a chance of winning a quarter of a million euros and the title of Quiz Champion. It’s all or nothing here if you want to be the Quiz Champion. You have to win all 5 duels, speed rounds and the big final.

Quiz Champion

Produced by: Riverside Entertainment

150’Quiz + Activity Game ShowTalent Show

Format Format

6 shows aired

9 seasons aired 23 shows aired adaptable 90’ / 60’

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Showcasing top international stars, Wanna Bet?, airing since 1981, the absolute top entertainment show in the German-language countries and worldwide, is a bubbly mix of talk, game and variety elements held together by a charismatic host who serves as master-of-ceremonies, cheerleader, umpire. The actual game show format is simple: individuals or groups of people claim that they can perform a difficult task, such as a stunt, a memory feat, or any other trick. Each of the proposals is “adopted” by one of the guest celebrities, who bets that the contestants can or cannot carry out the proposed trick. In the end one of the candidates is the “king of bets” and gets a cash prize.

Produced by: ZDF

Wanna Bet?180’

It’s been in the family for decades, the Jugendstil vase, the mahogany cupboard, the Meissen service — and it’s often only when they’re no longer there that we miss them the most and desperately want them back. No matter what kind of heirloom it is: our celebrity team and antiques expert are knowledgeable about all the items shown to them. They restore and refurbish, polish and paint, and know how to get the inner glow of a veneer to shine — plus they often provide entertaining stories about “their” antiques.

They’re Not Old, They’re Antique

Produced by: Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion

5 x 45’ShowGame Show

Format

The family always masters challenges together. In 4 for family — The Big Family Competition, 3 families compete to provide proof that this is the case! They must survive 6 rounds and then the finals to be given the chance to supplement the family budget by EUR 100,000 by winning. Many tasks on important family issues such as trust, love, etc. await them. But they have to pay attention to not only the points they score but also the approval ratings of the public while solving the tasks.

Produced by: I & U TV

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Dalli Dalli — that means you’re playing against the clock! It takes seriousspontaneity and creativity to solve tricky problems in quick-fire guessingrounds. This timeless quiz show brings teams of two celebrities together in competitions full of laughter and suspense to be judged by a jury of three, plus extra points when the host asks the enthusiastic audience “Do you think that was … GREAT?” with his legendary leap.

Dalli Dalli

Produced by: Riverside Entertainment

150’QuizGame + Family Show

Format Format

215 shows aired

1 show aired

4 for family — The Big Family Competition

10 shows aired adaptable 90’ / 60’

adaptable 60’ / 30’

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Money Meals

Kitchen Battle garnered top ratings in the early afternoon slot from the get-go, with over a million viewers tuning in each week to watch six ambitious amateur cooks engage in a lively competition at the stove. Each show is hosted by Germany’s most popular TV chefs. What rivets viewers’ attention is not only which contestant will make it to the finale on Friday, but also the outstanding culinary creations that come into being on the show.

Kitchen Battle

Format + Readymade Format + Readymade

On Lafer! Lichter! Luscious!, two celebrities learn everything there is to know about cooking. Hearty fare from the home-style cooking of Horst Lichter, refined delicacies from the four-star cooking of Johann Lafer. During the 45-minute show, Lafer and Lichter disclose to the studio audience and the two celebrity “sous-chefs for the day” all conceivable tricks of the trade. The result: a superb four-course meal that the prominent guests help to prepare. Lafer! Lichter! Luscious! offers not only cooking tips, but also table decoration ideas.

Lafer! Lichter! Luscious!

Crime Watch XY is one of the most successful TV formats on German television and was the first reality show in the world. A host guides the viewer through the program and, in collaboration with police authorities, presents and elucidates a variety of unsolved crimes. The program’s goal is to solve these crimes during the public manhunt on TV with the help of tips by viewers. In each program, five or six unsolved criminal cases are presented in the form of approx. ten-minute film dramatizations.

Crime Watch XY

serializedserialized

Produced by: Fernsehmacher

Produced by: Securitel

Produced by: Fernsehmacher

On Money Meals, two women are up against two men, the goal being toprepare a three-course meal in 45 minutes. Both teams are given identicalingredients and have to quickly figure out what kind of enchanting farethey’re going to prepare. There’s a sort of catch, too: the same ingredientsmay come into play on more than one show. After two knock-out rounds the finalists engage in another “cook-off” against the famous German cook Alexander Herrmann.

Produced by: Fernsehmacher

Format + Readymade Format

45’ 90’Reality Crime ShowCooking

55’ 45’Cooking Cooking

374 shows aired

966 shows aired 2,139 shows aired

524 shows aired since 1967

Daily Format Daily Format

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3rd Season: Available Soon

2nd Season: In Production

2nd Season: Available Soon

Who would have guessed? History can be fun! This new sketch comedy portrays the major and minor events of world history from a new perspective — satirical, humorous and often delightfully absurd. A cavalcade of lavish costumes and sets is deployed to illustrate how history became what it never was … The journey ranges from prehistorical times to the Renaissance, from the wild 70s to the fall of the Wall.

Produced by: HPR Bild & Ton, WarnerCast: Matthias Matschke, Max Giermann, Alexander Schubert, Antoine Monot, Valerie Niehaus, Isabell Polak, Judith Richter a. o.

Sketch History20 x 23’

BLOCKBUSTAZ tells the story of Sol Berger, who lives with his single mom and shares his life with his sweetheart Jessica, his best buddy Hardy, and the strict caretaker Herr Bulut. Up to now, Sol has been trying to make a living as an M. C. He has no money, but no stress either, and waits for the right moment to start the business. But he’s in for a surprise on his 30th birthday, when his mother simply kicks him out of the house … BLOCKBUSTAZ was chosen TV Lab winner by ZDF neo viewers in 2014.

BLOCKBuSTAz

Produced by: NeuesuperCast: Eko Fresh, Sascha Reimann “Ferris MC”, Martina Eitner-Acheampong, Joyce Ilg a. o.

6 x 30’SitcomComedy + Satire

Format + Readymade

2 seasons aired

Hajo Eichwald isn’t squeamish in the choice of his means when it comes to deactivating political rivals. After all, he’s accumulated 30 years of parliamentary democracy! Today, however, in times of Facebook, YouTube and Co., the has-been politician is finding it increasingly difficult to cope with everyday political life. On his march through chambers and antechambers, he’s lost not only his good looks, but also most of his ideals. In other words, he’s become a typical government employee…

Produced by: Kundschafter FilmproduktionCast: Bernhard Schütz, Rainer Reiners, Leon Ulrich, Lucie Heinze, Maren Kroymann a. o.

Eichwald, M. P.4 x 30’

At the center of this sitcom are the more or less decent-looking halfbrothers Michael, Bernd and Marco Kaminski, who, in their search for a secure job, take over a run-down funeral parlor. Their motto is: “Show me someone who doesn’t die!” But there’s a problem: the Kaminskis haven’t the vaguest idea about the undertaking business. Moreover, they apparently never heard of order and neatness, and chaos is their permanent sidekick. What’s more, Bernd is neurotic and “corpsophobe”, Michael a dim bulb and the youngest, Marco, a testosterone-packed all-round amateur.

These Kaminskis

Produced by: Warner Bros. International Television Production DeutschlandCast: David Scheller, Steffen Will, Nick Hein a. o.

6 x 30’SitcomPolit-Sitcom

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Anette has decided to specialize in couples- and sexual therapy and seems ideal for the job: she’s young, independent, self-confident and humorous. But while she suggests that her patients drop emotional ballast, she hasn’t felt very well in a long time either. Torn between her extravagantly liberal mother Susann and her markedly conservative life companion Oliver, she realizes increasingly, and with each therapy session, that she’s staggering through life rather than walking firmly in it…

Come On — Therapy for the undecided4 x 25’

The Brown Family treats the topic of right-wing radicalism in a cheeky way, and with just the right amount of humor: Kai and Thomas are Neonazis in their early 20s. One day their world is rocked when they open the door to their apartment and find Lara standing there. She’s six, she’s black, and she’s Thomas’ daughter. As Lara warily enters the living room, Neonazi Thomas begins a very personal odyssey of his own. Well-known YouTube personalities like LeFloid, CuBirds or the Space Frogs appear in catchy guest roles.

The Brown Family8 x 6’ or 1 x 42’Sitcom-WebseriesSitcom

Format + Readymade

17-year-old Paula is stunned! She has found her biological father and moves in with him. Yet she has no idea what his world — that she is about to rock — looks like: Oliver Rettler seeks perfection in all he does, especially in his job as a chef. But instead of getting a star, he gets burnout. Six weeks in a clinic. Now he’s cured, and has time to re-arrange his life. New ideas are simmering in his brain, things are looking up — and then comes Paula — and the teenage chaos she brings with her.

Paula unexpected6 x 30’

Since time immemorial, the town of Ellerbeck has been in the firm grip of a long-established clan of local politicians. No one objects, until the local officials want to build a new high-tech pigsty. The citizens’ initiative rallies around the kindergarten director Sabine, who finds herself at the epicenter of Ellerbecker local politics. She now has to focus her idealism on the construction of industrial parks and such. Her experiences as a kindergarten teacher help her more than she could imagine!

Ellerbeck6 x 30’SitcomSitcom

Produced by: Sony PicturesCast: Amelie Plaas-Link, Alexander Schubert a. o.

Produced by: Prime ProductionsCast: Cordula Stratmann, Kai Lentrodt, Markus John, Inka Friedrich, Oliver Nägele, Julia Schmitt a. o.

Produced by: TamTam FilmCast: Marlene Morreis, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Thomas Niehaus, Anton Pampuschnyy, Katja Danowski, Samuel Weiss, Ole Fischer a. o.

Produced by: PolyphonCast: Edin Hasanovic, Vincent Krüger, Naomi Laine Tucker a. o.

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Filling Stations of Happiness is a trashy road movie, narrated by the entertainer and storyteller Friedrich Liechtenstein — also known as “Mister Supergeil” (Mr. Wicked Cool). There are more than 130,000 filling stations in Europe, and he is convinced they are the most romantic places in today’s world. On his journey in each episode, Liechtenstein visits 2 or 3 filling stations, from the futuristic multi-energy one to the forgotten backyard fuel pump. He also meets stars and experts. There are spontaneous singing duets, dancing interludes, or discussions about the world’s problems.

Produced by: Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion

Filling Stations of Happiness

A well-known TV kitchen virtuoso, a local kitchen chef, a duel of food: Who’s going to make the best specialty, the tastiest local dish: the celebrity or the modest local chef from the region where this dish comes from? He may not have a Michelin star and doesn’t run a gourmet restaurant. Instead, he masters a unique dish from his home to perfection. Is our chef up to the challenge for the Duel of Food? The winner is selected by a local jury that knows exactly what the local specialties should taste like.

Produced by: wellenreiter.tv

10 x 26’Road Performance 5 x 45’Cooking

City. Country. Tasty.

In these enlightened times, one gets the impression that everyone knows everything about sexuality. According to the couples therapist and bestselling author Ann-Marlene Henning, what is truly surprising is that so many men and women today still have so many unanswered questions.

In the series, she talks to couples of all ages and touches upon some of today’s existing taboos. With her expertise, her sensitivity and her refreshing naturalness, Ann-Marlene seeks to break the silence in which couples are sometimes locked for years. This is always very emotional, since sexuality is one of the most fundamental and sensitive themes in our lives. Every story is different, yet each story gets to the bottom of vital questions, fears and desires. Whether young or old, hetero- or homosexual, healthy or disabled — they all learn what true intimacy really is.

Produced by: Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion

Make Love – You Can Learn to Make Love

Format + Readymade

14 x 45’Docutainment

4 seasons aired

1 season aired

2nd Season: Available Soon

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Will exchange city air for country life, sofa for sheep pen, and Marzahn for dairy cattle. For one whole week, big-city families descend upon various farmsteads to take over the chores on a farm. In the meantime, the owners of the farm are enjoying a well-deserved vacation. The temporary farmhands are realistic: what their new surroundings mean is above all little sleep, little free time, lots of work — and hands-on experiences dealing with pigs, chickens and rabbits. Are they ready to face these challenges?

Produced by: Good Times Fernsehproduktion

Ready for Farming5 x 45’

It’s the early 1960s and a phantom roams through the art world. It’s a new art form that shocks and disturbs, that amuses some and is found intolerable by others: Performance art. In three episodes, From Dada to Gaga tells the story of this idiosyncratic art form: from its beginnings in Dadaism and Surrealism, to its further development in the U. S. under John Cage, its return to Germany with Joseph Beuys and its influence on video art and pop culture today.

From Dada to Gaga

Produced by: studio.tv.film

1 x 44’MusicDocutainment

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Star chef Nelson Müller takes a look into the cooking pots of the traditional country kitchen. He searches all over the country for classics and then attempts to turn them into his own special dishes — always under critical observation by connoisseurs of regional cuisine. Expert Dirk Haupt in Sankt Peter Ording shows him how to prepare Labskaus, for example. In Bavaria, he works on preparing the proper pork crust and in Swabia on cooking the local culinary pride, “Maultaschen”!

Produced by: Story House, Berlin

Nelson Müller’s Country Outing5 x 45’

Berlin star chef Michael Hoffmann was the first gourmet in all of Germany to offer purely vegetarian menus in his restaurant. This brought him the award as chef of the year in 2010. Today Hoffmann grows the vegetables for his restaurant on his own before the gates of the metropolis. In Hoffmann’s Fabulous World of Vegetables, Hoffmann — along with his prominent guests Hannes Jaenicke, Doris Dörrie and Wolfgang Niedecken — cooks vegetarian menus ideal for all occasions and phases of life: undogmatic, humorous and sensual.

Hoffmann’s Fabulous World of Vegetables10 x 30’CookingCooking

Produced by: Phlox Films Claudia Müller

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SANTIANO is Germany’s folk-pop band Number One. The songs of the double Echo Award winner tell stories of nostalgia, adventurousness and the rough life on the high seas. Their journey to Ireland is a trip to their musical roots. Giving rise to a kind of musical road movie, the viewers join SANTIANO in discovering Ireland’s mystical places and otherworldly landscapes and its welcoming inhabitants. And here, on the Emerald Isle, SANTIANO meets up with international music stars such as Chris de Burgh, Enya, Rea Garvey and the chart toppers Hozier.

Produced by: Kimmig Entertainment

Santiano in Ireland1 x 135’

The Walaam archipelago, always a symbol of Russian monasticism, is located in the far north of Russia. Monks have lived in this secluded area for nearly 1,000 years. Very few television crews have been allowed to visit the monastery before and accompany its residents in their daily life between work, prayer and song. Walaam offers rare insights and shows the preparations for Easter, the biggest and most important festival for the Russian Orthodox Church. The highlight is the Easter Vigil, which the monks celebrate in a nearly six-hour ceremony by singing century-old spiritual songs.

Walaam — The Hidden World of a Russian Monastery

Produced by: Bel Air Media

1 x 52’MusicMusic

There are just a few TV programs that have succeeded in taking the classical music scene from its ivory tower. It was managed in the musical paradise Berlin, where the interest in classical music is gaining more ground among young people. This trend has been implemented successfully into a new TV format: the Arte Lounge!, the Late Night Show for all lovers of good music, presented by hosts, top stars of classical music. The success is the unique combination of classical music with R’N’B, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, Electro and other styles.

Produced by: studio.tv.film

Arte Lounge – Classic Goes Clubbing25 x 60’ + 5 x 52’

Stars of Tomorrow stands for passion, emotion and outstanding music —classical music! Young artists from all over the world taking their first steps in a big career present themselves and their talent to the public, as soloists or with orchestra. The venue: a silent-film cinema in Berlin. This location gives their performances a very special note. The artists do not play on a stage in front of their live audience, they are part of it and so a very special atmosphere is created. The host in this private ambience is Rolando Villazón, the world-class tenor.

Stars of Tomorrow

Produced by: Salve TV

4 x 45’Classic-MusicMusic

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