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Helpless, the young convent student Richard has to watch as his mother Sarazenin Zobeida is condemned by the inquisitor Heinrich Institoris as a witch and burned at the stake. From then on, Richard swears revenge on Institoris for what he did to his family. He can escape and is taken by the merchant Jakob Fugger. He wants to teach him not only to seek blind revenge, but to manipulate people like puppets and thus to reach his goals. The two travel from Florence to Rome to influence the upcoming election of the pope and to witness the power struggle between the Medicis and the Borgias up close.

In “My home is really beautiful – The Eva Brenner Plan,” presenter Eva Brenner and her team of craftsmen help families redesign their own homes. No matter whether it's a children's room, living room or bedroom, whether it's a basement or an attic, whether with or without a wall opening - the trained interior designer always finds a creative solution, for both large and small budgets.

Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.

Laura Santos returns to her parents’ gorgeous hotel in Barcelona, accompanied by her son Pedro, whom she hopes to set back on the right path. After the initial greetings, Laura is at odds with her mother Isabel once again. The longtime hotel manager accuses her daughter of selfishly going her own way years ago instead of committing herself to the family business. Today, the hotel is in poor shape with bleak prospects.

An unbeatable duo: The highly talented Chief Inspector Marie Brand investigates with her pragmatic colleague Simmel. Together they perfectly combine heart and mind and solve exciting murder cases in Cologne in this series.

A bunch of terrorists take over a school to get to an instructor who has access to an advanced scientific device. A core group of youngsters fight back to try and stop the bad guys.

Glittering facades, vibrant life, and people facing the daily struggle for survival. ZDF correspondents each profile a megacity within their reporting area. How do people celebrate, laugh, and love in such a city? How are problems like housing shortages, food supply, transportation, and climate change solved – in metropolises with over ten million inhabitants?

Die Dreisten Drei – Die Comedy WG is a German sketch comedy series, which aired from 2003 to 2008 on Sat.1 and returned in February 2012 with a new cast.

Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series created and written by Eric Paice. Utilising a 'battle of the sexes' and role reversal scenario, the planet Medusa, home to a highly evolved and technologically advanced humanoid race, was already ruled by its women when a rogue comet (as seen in the opening credits) knocked it out of its orbit around Proxima Centauri. Drifting through space, the orphan planet's surface became uninhabitable, with the inhabitants surviving in huge underground cities. Jointly produced by Portman Productions, Scottish Television, and Werbung im Rundfunk for ITV, filming took place at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series ran for 13 episodes from 1 September to 1 December 1976.

Blaulicht is a German crime television drama series, whose 29 episodes were based on crime case files.

Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking.

A German sketch comedy show that prioritises provocative absurdity above all else.

A family of pigs moves into a human town.

In 1946 Berlin, an American cop searches for his missing brother while helping a novice German policewoman fight the violent crimes engulfing the city.

Eight celebrities fight to avoid the title "Germany's Dumbest". The participants are tested on knowledge that everyone should have, and in each episode the smartest gets to go home. This is the competition no one wants to win!

Count Mátyás Sándor is the protagonist of this exciting series based on the popular novel by Jules Verne. In 1859, after the defeat of the Habsburgs in Italy, the wealthy Transylvanian lord sees the time has come to launch another armed struggle for Hungary's independence. The Viennese Chamberlain, however, learns of his activities and decides to 'liquidate' him. Two adventurous criminals are commissioned to carry out the assassination.

Hilltop Hospital is a claymation children's television programme made in 1999. It consists of 52 ten-minute shorts. The series is directed by Pascal Le Nôtre and produced in English, French, German and Dutch. The series is adapted from a series of books by Nicholas Allan of the same name. ZDF started broadcasting the shorts in 2003. It was released by Buena Vista Home Video in 2000 and Maverick Entertainment in 2006 in the UK.

Dr. Nina Haddad is the new emergency doctor at Mannheim Fire Station III, always in the front row with emergency paramedic Paul Raue. In a team with firefighter Markus Probst, fire chief Piotr Rogosa and the intrepid Billy Johannes, Nina experiences emotional ups and downs, dramatic emergencies and moving dramas. Every deployment presents medical challenges. Even though the world of firefighters is new territory for the doctor, she quickly realizes that behind the uniforms and sometimes harsh humor there are people who are not indifferent to the fate of others. Dr. Nina Haddad, a born lone fighter, finds that her colleagues are there for her. She experiences cohesion, team spirit and dedication of the rescue workers. For the team at Fire Station III, their daily work is not a job, but a calling.

Almost microscopic in size, there exists a world hidden within our own; the Meadowlands is a delicate world of flowers as large as redwoods, and insects the size of dragons, where peaceful fairies take wing and comical trolls haunt the lowland swamps and inhabit dark, hidden caves. Without warning, a shroud of evil is creeping across the land... deep in the Dark Wood at the edge of the Meadowlands, the Elves have built their citadel in a gnarled ancient tree. Their malevolent leader, Lord Kann, lusts after control of the entire fairy empire and has vowed to conquer every corner of this magical realm.

By way of a one-trillion-dollar inheritance, John Fontanelli becomes the richest man in the world. This inheritance comes with a prophecy: he is to restore humankind’s lost future. Powerful opponents are intent on preventing this endeavor.

Pauline gets pregnant after a one-night stand with Lukas. Something is very wrong with the pregnancy. When Luke reveals that he is the son of the devil incarnate and heir to hell, nothing is ever the same again. Between the fronts of demons and angels, Pauline's pregnancy also gives her supernatural abilities. She becomes the decisive force in the epic battle between good and evil.

Die Stein is a German television series.