Topic: TV Shows - A Decade in Retrospect

[DJ Doena]

Yeah, that's the one. Have you seen QI before? It's fairly harmless and you end up with so much useless information you can win every pub quiz going... 

No, I hadn't. But they didn't say anything about nudity, you must have gotten that from somewhere else. 

[Najemikon]

Yeah, that's the one. Have you seen QI before? It's fairly harmless and you end up with so much useless information you can win every pub quiz going... 

No, I hadn't. But they didn't say anything about nudity, you must have gotten that from somewhere else. 

Two points: What you posted was part 1 of... whatever. Second, I watched a QI XL edition, so the total was 45mins. Sean Locke second guessed Fry and named the German phrase ("FKK") and Fry said something about Goering, or another of Hitler's top brass, saying how he hated it and endeavoured to outlaw it.

So there. 

You're a bunch of nudists, admit it! 

[lovemunkey187]

My nomination for one of the greatest tv shows of the last decade is Rome

[Najemikon]

What the heck is going on, with all this Germany stuff?  I'm just watching Paul Merton in Europe (like the China series Rich reviewed) and he's in East Germany with some unemployed German's that are slightly obsessed with the Wild West. Oh yeah. And more naked-ism! This time they're bowling. I think I'm going blind. 

[DJ Doena]

What the heck is going on, with all this Germany stuff?   I'm just watching Paul Merton in Europe (like the China series Rich reviewed) and he's in East Germany with some unemployed German's that are slightly obsessed with the Wild West. Oh yeah. And more naked-ism! This time they're bowling. I think I'm going blind.  

Germans and Indians Native Americans go way back. Back to the days of Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, the young German (Karl May's Alter Ego) and the noble chieftain of the Mescalero Apaches. I cannot recall how often I read the Winnetou books in my youth.

In East Germany this image was nourished because it were books about the good Indians against the evil white settlers (read: Americans).

Funny sidenote: The books still had to be censored. The very first,  Winnetou I originally began with the sentence "The red land is dying."   Bad choice of words. It was rephrased to "The red man is dying".

[Najemikon]

In East Germany this image was nourished because it were books about the good Indians against the evil white settlers (read: Americans).

Interesting stuff, because that is exactly how the chap explained it to Paul, who pointed out the irony of them obviously loving the cowboy side of it, essentially the bad guys. He laughed at that, shrugged, and then they re-enacted General Custer's Last Stand.

He then went to meet a family who run a business. Mum, Dad, Son and Daughter barely out of University age, all making...

waldmichlsholdi

Please consider my mind boggled.

In the interests of balance, it isn't all German though. He went to Ireland and met a young solicitor with a distinguished three generations of law behind him, who is training with female synchronised swimmers, determined to join the team and compete. He sincerely believes it is merely a point of law that is stopping him, a male, joining them.

[Jimmy]

110 $CAN they are sure expensive
More they are probably not confortable at all... maybe they are good for some backdoor pleasure

[Achim]

waldmichlsholdi

Label NSFW next time!

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[Kathy]

So THAT"S what getting a woody means! 

[Najemikon]

 

Brilliant, Kathy!

[snowcat]

  Oh dear...

[Tom]

The most notable and ambitious German TV series is the Heimat trilogy (1984-2004) by Edgar Reitz. It isn't a TV series in the conventional sense, though. The 20-year span doesn't mean 20 seasons, but 3 series (seasons really doesn't fit here) produced with a 10 year gap between each of them. Running time of the individual episodes varied between 1.5 and 2 hours. Ironically, the third series, although co-produced by the German PBS, was never completely shown on German public TV; you had to get the DVDs for that.

Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik (11 episodes, 1984, AKA Homeland: A German Chronicle)
Die zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend (13 episodes, 1993, AKA The Second Homeland: Chronicle of a Youth)
Heimat 3 - Chronik einer Zeitenwende (6 episodes, 2004, AKA Homeland III: Chronicle of a Changing Time)

The second series, covering the '60s in Germany, is one of the best TV series ever.

By the way, they are re-releasing all series soon in a complete boxset for the price of €85. It is a little expensive for me, but if the price drops, I will consider picking it up.

[goodguy]

The most notable and ambitious German TV series is the Heimat trilogy (1984-2004) by Edgar Reitz. It isn't a TV series in the conventional sense, though. The 20-year span doesn't mean 20 seasons, but 3 series (seasons really doesn't fit here) produced with a 10 year gap between each of them. Running time of the individual episodes varied between 1.5 and 2 hours. Ironically, the third series, although co-produced by the German PBS, was never completely shown on German public TV; you had to get the DVDs for that.

Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik (11 episodes, 1984, AKA Homeland: A German Chronicle)
Die zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend (13 episodes, 1993, AKA The Second Homeland: Chronicle of a Youth)
Heimat 3 - Chronik einer Zeitenwende (6 episodes, 2004, AKA Homeland III: Chronicle of a Changing Time)

The second series, covering the '60s in Germany, is one of the best TV series ever.

By the way, they are re-releasing all series soon in a complete boxset for the price of €85. It is a little expensive for me, but if the price drops, I will consider picking it up.

That's a pretty amazing price. Really. I haven't checked in a while, but there was never much price dropping for the already available editions. The addendum "Drehort Heimat" alone (which was first released in 2007 and seems to be part of the new set) still hovers around 40 EUR.