''Ein Haus voller Töchter'' ("A House Full of Daughters") is a German
sitcom which originally aired on
Das Vierte in 2010.
Plot
After being left by his wife,
family therapist
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Carsten Vogel (
Moritz Lindbergh Moritz is the German equivalent of the name Maurice. It may refer to:
People Given name
* Saint Maurice, also called Saint Moritz, the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century
* Prince Moritz of Hesse (2007), the son of ...
) has to care for his five daughters on his own, sometimes accompanied by his mother-in-law, Wilhelmine von Funke (
Grit Boettcher
Grit Boettcher (; born 10 August 1938) is a German actress.
Early life
In 1938, Boettcher was born in Berlin, Germany.
Career
Boettcher is an actress in various films on German TV and in stage productions. Boettcher is sometimes credited ...
).
Production
''Ein Haus voller Töchter'' is an adaptation of the popular
Russian TV series ''Папины дочки'' (''
Daddy's Daughters''). It was the first and only own fictional production of the small private TV channel
Das Vierte, which operated from 2005 to 2013. Producer of the series is Dmitry Lesnevskiy. The series was filmed in 2009 and initially announced for September of that year, but after the channel's ownership changed, the first four episodes were finally aired on 19 August 2010.
Only 35 of the 48 episodes were ever aired; however, there were continuous reruns of the series until the channel was dissolved on 31 December 2013.
Critical reception
The series was panned for its poor and clichéd writing and its overuse of
canned laughter
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. Jan Schlüter of Quotenmeter.de concluded that "television could hardly get worse".
See also
*
List of German television series
*
List of sitcoms known for negative reception
References
External links
*
2010 German television series debuts
2010 German television series endings
2010s comedy television series
German comedy television series
German-language television shows
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