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A bizarre look back at the fictional rise of the glorious leader Joon Kim from North Korea's sports academy to "world ruler by mistake".

Silvia Sommerlath, a young German woman from a middle-class family, and Crown Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden fall in love during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Public pressure, political adversity, and the prospect of a life marked by duty and lack of freedom threaten their love.

This elaborate two-part series intertwines the life story of Udo Jürgens with his family history. The story begins with Jürgens' grandfather, Heinrich Bockelmann, who emigrated from Bremen to Russia at the end of the 19th century. Spanning three generations, the narrative arc stretches from the end of the Tsarist era through the Russian Revolution and the two World Wars to the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Fighting against the prejudices of late 1960s Germany, a mother will stop at nothing to find her son a proper psychiatric diagnosis. To society, he is a problem child; to his mother, he is gifted. Doctor Zhivago meets The A Word... an exquisite, arresting tale of love and hope.

The spin-off Promi First Dates gives celebrities the chance to fall in love.

Poochini's Yard is an animated children's television series which originally aired globally in 2000, but was not shown in the United States for the first time until September 1, 2002. The series follows the life of a dog named Poochini who runs away from home, gets captured by the dog pound and is adopted by an average American family after its rich owner dies. Though it was created and co-produced by San Francisco-based entertainment company Wild Brain, Poochini was not shown in the United States for over two years after its production. The Christmas Tree and Coffee Dog are available on video and DVD. Co-produced, and internationally distributed, by Munich-based media group EM.TV, Poochini was based on the award-winning short A Dog Cartoon. The series had just 26 episodes with the last one airing in the United States on March 1, 2003. It was directed by Dave Marshall and Dave Thomas.

Will there come a point when our brain stops thinking without a computer? When we consider digital sex better than the real thing? And turn our body into a machine? We are living in the midst of an upheaval that could be more radical than anything our parents or grandparents ever experienced. But what does it all mean for us as human beings? In seven episodes the protagonist Helen Fares goes on a journey through futuristic technologies. She meets virtual friends, learns to steer a drone with her brain and to hack her own DNA. Encounters with experts in the US, Japan and Britan provide context to the posed question: Are we evolving into a new species - the Homo Digitalis? Simultaneously Homo Digitalis is a scientific experiment. In a playful test either as chatbot or as website the user can find out his or her personal future.

The first television project by Marc-Uwe Kling started in 2016 under the title "Bühne 36 - Känguru & Co." on Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb). Together with the "three others" Julius Fischer, Maik Martschinkowsky, and Sebastian Lehmann, Marc-Uwe Kling has been performing every two weeks on a literary stage for over ten years. Always with new short stories, songs, and spectacle. Now this consistently successful show is finally being adapted for television.