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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 five 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 it all.

Cash or Trash

Produced by: Warner

55’

690 episodes aired

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!

We’re fooled by illusions every day. And over the years, the show’s host has gathered lots of experience and knows just how optical illusions, acoustic tricks and 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

90’

5 shows aired

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Docutainment

Game Show

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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 grapple to answer the oddest questions on TV.

The host himself sets out to come up with his own special round of questions for the guests, introducing all manner 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! The show features questions and topics familiar to viewers from their own everyday lives, but some are also about exotic parts of the world. The questions often seem refreshingly simple, but that’s what makes them so difficult to answer.

And the cherry on top: the money won on the show will be donated to a good cause!

You’ll Never Get It!

Produced by: wellenreiter.tv

90’

6 shows aired / 3 in production

Quiz Show

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 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

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Airing since 1981 and showcasing top international stars, Wanna Bet?, the absolute top entertainment show in the German-speaking 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 and 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 celebri-ties, 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’Game Show

Format

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’Quiz

Format

215 shows aired 10 shows aired adaptable 90’ / 60’adaptable 60’ / 30’

When do aspiring young songwriting talents get a chance like this! In the contest format Your Song, youngsters up to the age of 18 have a chance to present their original songs to a TV audience. Each year, hundreds of youths respond to the call to compete in the nationwide contest by submitting works in all musical genres. The top 16 are then invited to perform their songs in front of a jury. The young artists who make it through this round then attend a songwriting camp on Ibiza, where they must once again demonstrate their acumen.

The stakes get higher as their song is produced in a professional sound studio with prominent musicians like David Garrett, Till Brönner and Rolando Villazón. The tension reaches its peak in a live gala show in which the coveted Songwriter of the Year award is selected by TV viewers who phone in their votes.

Your Song

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

16 x 25’ + 1 x 100’

10 seasons aired

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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.Master psychologist Christopher Lesko manipulates them into conflict situations. Aggression will escalate in game show competitions. Reality TV meets nailbiting tension as cutting-edge suspense combines with 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 tempersbecome shorter and conversations more biting, the budding warriorsturn physical — and dangerous. The war has begun.

Produced by: Doclights

1, 2 — War?

Format

45’Docutainment

4 episodes aired

Crime Watch XY is a manhunt series that is now a classic and successful tool in the fight against criminality. A host guides the viewer through the program and, in collaboration with the police authorities, presents and elucidates unsolved crimes. The program’s goal is to clear up these crimes during the public manhunt 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 reconstructions (film cases). Other cases are also addressed in which fugitive criminals are being sought on the basis of superimposed photos and identikit shots (studio cases). Viewer tips can be given by phone or online. About 40 % of the aired cases are solved on average.

Crime Watch XY is one of the most successful TV formats on German television and was the first reality show in the world. It is also broadcast on BBC One in the U. K.

Crime Watch XYReality TV / Crime

528 shows aired since 1967

90’

Format

Produced by: Securitel

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

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. The final minutes in the bunker in 1945 are evoked just as the backgrounds of the Kennedy assassination or the circumstances that led to the mutiny on the Bounty. Discerning CGI is shaped into visually powerful sketches that tell of past eras, events and locations, and are linked together with crafty animations. What, for example, with President Kennedy’s mind on more frivolous things than the atomic bomb, it’s a wonder we survived the 60s at all!

Sketch History30 x 23’Comedy + Satire

3 seasons aired

Two contestants compete against each other answering questions from different categories. Is Homer’s mom’s name Mona or Lisa? Is okra a mountain or a vegetable? Does the Statue of Liberty hold the torch in her right or left hand? The possibilities are endless. The winner must then choose to either continue on to a final game, a race against the clock for the money they have won, or to play a second game against another contestant and risk losing their jackpot.

Hans-Joachim Heist’s character on the German late-night satirical news program heute-show has long ago reached cult status. On the show, Gernot Hassknecht expresses people’s frustration and anger over social wrongs in Germany. The anger-guru has started coaching aspiring choleric characters using material from the real world. As he puts it, “you can’t leave it to amateurs to throw a fit.” This compilation shows highlights from his tour, taking us on a journey to the world of anger and frustration.

Produced by: Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion Produced by: Knacker Einfach Medienproduktion

Either or Hassknecht live45’ 1 x 76’Show Show

Format Available

10 shows aired

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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

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 catch, too: the same ingredientsmay come into play on more than one show. After two knockout rounds, finalists engage in another “cook-off” against the famous German cook Alexander Herrmann.

Produced by: Fernsehmacher

55’ 45’CookingCooking

966 shows aired 2,292 shows airedDaily Format Daily Format

On Lafer! Lichter! Luscious!, two celebrities learn everything there is to know about cooking. Hearty fare from the homestyle 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!

serialized

Produced by: Fernsehmacher

Format + Readymade

45’Cooking

374 shows aired Weekly Format

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 has mastered a unique dish from his home to perfection. Is our chef up to the challenge of the food duel? The winner is selected by a local jury that knows exactly what the local specialties should taste like.

Produced by: wellenreiter.tv

5 x 45’Cooking

City. Country. Tasty.

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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 of 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 meals 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

Ready for Farming 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 farm chores. In the meantime, the farm owners 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 US 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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It’s the classic song pitch used by the music industry. But in Song of the Year, the pitch process is muscled-up. It’s not just jury members who are going to pass judgment on a song, but a whole nation! Song of the Year brings the pitch to the stage, where four pop stars from different genres compete for the best song. It’s a thrilling search for musical quality and an engaging personality. In two shows, four stars select two songs with which they have to win over the public in the grand finale via viewer voting.

Longing — travel, live, enjoy is more than a travel magazine: it is a TV format that creates a longing for the beautiful things that still exist away from the bustle of modern life. Each episode allows viewers to experience beautiful landscapes and places where people are representing their special and personal type of perfection. We present authentic individuals: a hotel manager and the boss of a small but charming guesthouse who aim to provide exceptional hospitality for their guests. What we present is not always larger than life, because we also find perfection in the small things… In other words: they still exist — the good and beautiful things …

One car, one star, one unforgettable carpooling experience. Join our host as he takes his celebrity guests for a ride in hand-picked cars for interviews in the fast lane. The 30-minute show features refreshingly unique interviews with two different guests who won’t let red lights stop them from having fun, whether they’re jumping out for a selfie or chatting with the driver of the next car. This show guarantees even the biggest fans they’ll learn something new about their favorite stars!

Our host and nine panelists dish out unbelievable stories and off-the-wall knowledge to our famous contestants, who must rely on their judgement of others to make decisions. What’s more, this unique and exciting new show puts the contestants’ general knowledge and logic to the ultimate test. The five rounds are guided by guesses and assumptions, but is that all the contestants need to choose the correct answer? Or will they need more information to find out what really makes the others tick?

Produced by: zeitvertreib.tv and ZDF Enterprises

Produced by: Casei Media

Produced by: Riverside EntertainmentProduced by: ZDF Digital

Song of the Year Longing — travel, live, enjoy

Sitting in the Hot SeatGuess who

120’ 45’

6 x 30’45’

Format / Music Format / Travel

TalkFormat / Show

Paper Format Paper Format

Format + Readymade Available

10 shows aired

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In our enlightened times, you get the impression everyone knows everything about sexuality. According to the Danish couples therapist and bestselling author Ann-Marlene Henning, it is surprising that many men and women today still have so many unanswered questions. In the series Make Love — You Can Learn to Make Love (14 episodes), Ann-Marlene talks to couples between 20 and 100 about their relationships or about sex with naturalness. With the help of high-quality 3D graphics, she gives interesting insights into everyday life.

Produced by: Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion

Make Love — You Can Learn to Make Love14 x 45’Docutainment

4 seasons aired

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’Show

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 and discussions about the world’s problems.

Two friends, two charismatic wine lovers: one is the actor Joachim Król, the other is Vincent Moissonnier, the winner of two Michelin awards for his restaurant and wine shop. The goal of the two friends is to show that what the EU means by the name “Organic Wine” has absolutely nothing to do with the product made by nature and enjoyed by millions!

Produced by: Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion

Produced by: Florianfilm

Filling Stations of Happiness 10 Vintners — Joachim Król and Vincent Moissonnier

10 x 26’ 5 x 45Road Performance Food + Travel

1 season aired 1 season aired

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The Walaam archipelago, long 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.

His concerts are incredibly entertaining, his albums sell in a heartbeat. Rieu was born in Maastricht to a family of musicians. He began playing the violin at five, studied at a conservatory and founded the Johann Strauss Orchestra in 1987. His spectacular performances have been filling stadiums ever since. Some of his most popular shows are “Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume” (“Vienna, city of my dreams”) and “Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein” (“I will dance with you to the heavens”).

Walaam — The Hidden World of a Russian MonasteryAndré Rieu

Produced by: Bel Air Media

Produced by: André Rieu Productions

1 x 52’120’ 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 of Berlin, where 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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