ZDF

Lionel Messy

Can somebody talk about the likes of ZDF and other German broadcasters? Is ZDF right wing like RTE, BBC, SKY and FOX? What do average Germans think of their TV? Also, what are popular TV shows in Germany?

Lawrence1895

Lionel Messy wrote: »

Can somebody talk about the likes of ZDF and other German broadcasters? Is ZDF right wing like RTE, BBC, SKY and FOX? What do average Germans think of their TV? Also, what are popular TV shows in Germany?

I know, they like them Celebrity shows in Germany, as well as Court Dramas (the likes of Judge Judy)...and of course football. But it's hard to pick a certain programme, it all depends on age, gender, etc., like in any other country

And the ZDF? Very much dominated by the conservative Christian Democrats, so some sort of Blueshirt Channel

riffmongous

You'll have to start watching Tatort, Sunday evenings, its a long running detective show with different branches all over the german speaking area. Including Austrian tv I find police/detective shows to be very popular, both homegrown and American

Cool_CM

riffmongous wrote: »

You'll have to start watching Tatort, Sunday evenings, its a long running detective show with different branches all over the german speaking area. Including Austrian tv I find police/detective shows to be very popular, both homegrown and American

So much better than Polizeiruf 110!

livinginkorea

Any idea where I can watch Tatort online? A good few students have said it will help me with my German but I think it will be better if there were some subtitles but still I would like to check it out.

The idea is a great one but because of all the regional channels for each state we have to pay a large amount of tax for TV which is now going to be 18 Euro per month I heard.

ethernet

livinginkorea wrote: »

Any idea where I can watch Tatort online? A good few students have said it will help me with my German but I think it will be better if there were some subtitles but still I would like to check it out.

Tatort is very good. It's usually streamed live but archives are here too: http://www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/tatort?documentId=602916

Cool_CM

livinginkorea wrote: »

Any idea where I can watch Tatort online? A good few students have said it will help me with my German but I think it will be better if there were some subtitles but still I would like to check it out.

The idea is a great one but because of all the regional channels for each state we have to pay a large amount of tax for TV which is now going to be 18 Euro per month I heard.

If you like the Tatort Facebook page they generally throw up a link each Sunday that it on just before 19:15 Irish time and give a short description.

Facebook page is:
https://m.facebook.com/Tatort?id=33214866692&_rdr

The link that you can watch it live on is: livedaserste.de

riffmongous

Cool_CM wrote: »

So much better than Polizeiruf 110!

I was actually watching that a few minutes ago, defo no Tatort, but watchable enough, the East German setting for the early stuff is interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6OrhISKot0

Has anyone else here ever seen Schnell Ermittelt?