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2007 In German Television
This is a list of German television related events from 2007. Events *8 March - Roger Cicero is selected to represent Germany at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Frauen regier'n die Welt". He is selected to be the fifty-second German Eurovision entry during Wer singt für Deutschland? held at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. *5 May - Mark Medlock wins the fourth season of ''Deutschland sucht den Superstar''. *30 June - ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten'' actress Susan Sideropoulos and her partner Christian Polanc win the second season of '' Let's Dance''. *7 July - Michael Carstensen wins the seventh season of ''Big Brother Germany''. *3 November - 19-year-old opera singer Ricardo Marinello wins the first season of ''Das Supertalent''. Debuts Domestic *8 January - ''Afrika, mon amour'' (2007) (ZDF) *16 January - '' 2030 – Aufstand der Alten'' (2007) (ZDF) *20 October - ''Das Supertalent'' (2007–present) ( RTL) International *20 January - ''Foster's H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Television
Television in Germany began in Berlin on 22 March 1935, broadcasting for 90 minutes three times a week. It was home to the first public television station in the world, named ''Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow''. In 2000, the German television market had approximately 36.5 million television households, making it the largest television market in Europe. Nowadays, 95% of German households have at least one television receiver. All the main German TV channels are free-to-air. History In 1948 the British occupation forces allowed NWDR to broadcast television programmes for the British zone. Other regional networks also started to launch television in their own areas. Meanwhile, the GDR was launching its own television service, Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF), based on the Soviet Union, Soviet model. A regular schedule began through the cooperation of all ARD (broadcaster), ARD members in 1954. Basic principles in the central areas of entertainment, information and enlightenment were establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'' (also known as ''Foster's Home'', or simply ''Foster's'' for short) is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios as the network's first show animated primarily with Adobe Flash, which was done in Ireland by Boulder Media. Set in a world in which imaginary friends coexist with humans, it centers on a boy named Mac who is pressured by his mother to abandon his imaginary friend Bloo. After the duo discover an orphanage dedicated to housing abandoned imaginary friends, Bloo moves into the home and is kept from adoption as long as Mac visits him daily at exactly 3:00 PM. The episodes revolve around Mac and Bloo as they interact with other imaginary friends and house staff and live out their day-to-day adventures, often getting caught up in various predicaments. McCracken conceived the series after adopting two dogs from an animal shelter and applying the con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unter Uns
''Unter uns'' (''"Between Us"'') is a German television soap opera, based on the Hungarian soap opera Barátok közt, first broadcast on RTL (German TV channel), RTL on 28 November 1994. It is centered on the lives of the people in a residential house, which is set in the fictional 'Schillerallee' in Cologne. Since the show debuted, the baker's family Weigel is the series core family. ''Unter uns'' is not based on a foreign soap opera like ''Verbotene Liebe'' or ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten''. After ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten'', the show was the second daily soap for RTL, followed years later in 2006 by ''Alles was zählt''. The show aired its 7,000th episode on 22 November 2022. Cast Current cast members Past cast members A † indicates characters that have died. Crossovers Over the years, ''Unter uns'' had three crossovers with other television shows. * In 1997, the character of Rebecca Mattern (played by Imke Brügger) had several crossover appearances wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marienhof (TV Series)
''Marienhof'' is a German soap opera, first shown on 1 October 1992 on German TV channel, Das Erste. It started as a weekly series, before becoming a daily programme on 2 January 1995. The show was cancelled in February 2011 and aired its last episode on 15 June 2011. The show focuses on the everyday life of the residents of the ''Marienhof'', a fictional suburb in Cologne. Over the years, the show became known for tackling several social issues, such as homosexuality, homelessness, private bankruptcy, rape, drug abuse, AIDS, child abuse, suicide, cancer, adultery and murder. Background Marienhof is produced by Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH in Munich. The series is set in another German city, Cologne. The first 52 episodes of the show were 45 minutes long and were shown every Tuesday and Thursday but from episode 53 onwards, this was shortened to 25 minutes. On 2 January 1995, Marienhof was joined by '' Verbotene Liebe'' in the daily soaps schedule in Germany. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindenstraße
''Lindenstraße'' (literally "Linden Street") was a long-running German television drama series, broadcast by Das Erste. The first episode aired on 8 December 1985 and since then new episodes were broadcast weekly until 2020. Its last timeslot on Das Erste was Sundays at 18:50. The events of the Sunday episode usually take place on the Thursday before the show. This is a result of the original plan having been to show each episode on a Thursday night. Before the start of the series the programme's timeslot was switched to Sunday evening, but Thursday remained the day on which the events are normally shown as taking place, because the original concept of dramatizing the events of daily life as experienced by a group of characters on an ordinary weekday has continued unchanged. Exceptions are the so-called holiday episodes where the events take place on such special occasions as Christmas and Easter; also on important election days (especially general elections to the German Bundes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetten, Dass
(; German for "''Wanna bet, that..?''") is a German-language Saturday entertainment television show. It is the largest and most successful television show in Europe. Its format was the basis for the British show ''You Bet!'' and the American show ''Wanna Bet?'' The shows were broadcast live six to eight times a year from different cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. There were also seven open-air summer shows, broadcast from Amphitheatre Xanten, Plaça de Toros de Palma de Mallorca, Disneyland Paris, Waldbühne Berlin, and Aspendos Roman Theatre. Each of the shows, which were shown without commercial interruption, was usually scheduled to last for about two to three hours, but it was not uncommon for a show to run as much as 45 minutes longer. The game show gained great popularity in the German-speaking countries through the presenters Frank Elstner, who was also the creator, and Thomas Gottschalk in the 80s and 90s. After that, especially due to the takeover of Mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagesthemen
''Tagesthemen'' is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Ingo Zamperoni. Second only to the 20:00 '' Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the Day") is ARD's most important newscast. It is different in style and content from ''Tagesschau'' and is broadcast Mondays to Thursdays at 22:15, Fridays at 23:15, Saturdays at varying times and Sundays at 22:45. On special news occasions, a ''Tagesthemen extra'' is also broadcast before the main show. Each ''Tagesthemen'' broadcast has a single host, a single newsreader for the news block, usually from the earlier ''Tagesschau'', a weather presenter broadcasting from Frankfurt, and a presenter for the sports block on the weekends. Previously recorded ''Tagesthemen'' newscasts can also be seen internationally via YouTube on Tagesschau's YouTube Channel. History In January 1978, ''Tagesthemen'' replaced the late edition of ''Tagesschau'', which had been broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heute-journal
''heute-journal'' (roughly ''Today's Journal'') is a television news magazine broadcast on ZDF, a national German television network. History The programme premiered on 2 January 1978 as a late weekday evening 20 minute program. Originally, it was broadcast at 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and at 10 p.m. on Fridays. It has been broadcast at 9:45 p.m. since 1 January 1984.It is common for German television programs to be scheduled at 15 and 45 minutes after the hour. See thZDF schedule In 1991, the running time of the programme was extended to 30 minutes. 15-minute editions were added on Saturdays (in 1992) and Sundays (in 2000). The running time of the programme is sometimes extended to one hour, to cover special events or particularly important stories. During football matches, a short edition of ''heute-journal'' is generally broadcast during the half-time break, eliminating the second news summary, stock market report and the final report (usually related to science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heute
''heute'' (; German for ''today'') is a television news program on the German channel ZDF. The main program is broadcast at 19:00, and includes news, with an emphasis on political news from Germany, Europe and the world, plus 'mixed' news from cultural life or entertainment, and the sports news with an extra presenter. The weather forecast comes up about 19:22 after a break with commercials. For many years, the opening sequence of each broadcast featured an analogue clock, a signature element of the program. On July 19, 2021; the opening sequence switched to a digital clock along with updated graphics and music, along with a new anchor desk and set. The newscast ''heute'' of ZDF and the 20:00- ''Tagesschau'' of Das Erste are the main broadcasts of German public TV starting the evening programme. Advertisements can not be shown on public television in Germany after 8:00 pm. History The first ''heute'' broadcast took place on 1 April 1963, the day ZDF itself started broadcasting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagesschau (Germany)
''Tagesschau'' (German for ''Review of the Day'') is a German national and international television news service produced by the editorial staff of ARD-aktuell on behalf of the German public-service television network ARD. The main edition of the programme is aired at 20:00 (08:00 pm) on Das Erste. It is also simulcast on several ARD-affiliated networks, including NDR Fernsehen, RBB Fernsehen, SWR Fernsehen, WDR Fernsehen, hr-fernsehen, 3sat, Phoenix, and ARD-alpha. It also broadcasts for most of the day on tagesschau24. In addition, recorded ''Tagesschau'' newscasts can also be seen via YouTube internationally. History ''Tagesschau'' (literally "Day's Show", or loosely "(Re)view of the Day"; a play on the term ''Wochenschau'', the weekly newsreel formerly shown in cinemas) is both the oldest and the most watched news program on German television. The first edition was transmitted on ''Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk'' (North-Western German Broadcasting) on 26 December 1952. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun The Sheep
''Shaun the Sheep'' is a British stop-motion television series and a spin-off of the ''Wallace and Gromit'' franchise. The title character is Shaun (previously featured as the sheep named "Shaun" in the 1995 short film ''A Close Shave'' and the ''Shopper 13'' short film from the 2002 ''Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions'' series). The series focuses on his adventures on a northern English farm as the leader of his flock. The series first aired in the UK on the CBBC channel on 5 March 2007 and has been broadcast in 180 countries. It consists of 170 seven-minute episodes. The fifth series has 20 episodes and was first aired in the Netherlands from 1 December 2015 to 1 January 2016 and in Australia on ABC Kids from 16 January 2016 to 1 May 2016. In the United States, a series of ''Shaun the Sheep'' shorts aired between commercial breaks on Disney Channel starting on 8 July 2007. The series inspired the spin-off ''Timmy Time'', a show aimed at younger viewers that foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beeps
''The Beeps'' is a CGI animated pre-school children's television series of 65 x 11-minute episodes. The show was initially broadcast in the UK on Channel 5 Milkshake! segment. Subsequently transmitted worldwide. The series details the cheerful daily lives and adventures of the Beeps of Beep Island. The show is created by illustrator Malou Bonicos. The show features several notable actors: Timmy Mallett, Dani Harmer, Daniel Peacock, Ellie Grace, Sadie Wilson, Bob Golding, Tim Whitnall and Tom Baker Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor and writer. He is well known for his portrayal of the Fourth Doctor, fourth incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Wh ... as the narrator. The show's theme tune and original score are composed by Gareth Cousins. Peter Gosling provided The Beep-Beep Tree Song featured in every episode. The Beeps initially distributed by Southern Star and subsequently by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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