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I am developing a worrying addiction to the German/ Austrian TV detective series, Tatort. They're made by each region of ARD, each following a regular team in the CID (specifically murder) in each regional TV area.
The programme has been running since 1970, and I think my addiction is connected to the title sequence, which is so splendidly of its time. I'm glad that ARD have resisted the temptation to mess about with it (but then I still prefer the older versions of the Doctor Who titles!); at the same time, it continues to try new things and occasionally win prizes. It's interesting that - as Wikipedia has just informed me - that the earlier episodes tend to use loners as the central characters, these days teams are prefered, though.
Bizarrely, the English language Wikipedia contains the assertion: Standing: End of October 2006. The GDR equivalent of Tatort is Polizeiruf 110, which today shares a time slot with Tatort.
Which, as it happens, is true, because ARD now makes it - but it does rather sound as if the author thinks that East Germany still exists...
The programme has been running since 1970, and I think my addiction is connected to the title sequence, which is so splendidly of its time. I'm glad that ARD have resisted the temptation to mess about with it (but then I still prefer the older versions of the Doctor Who titles!); at the same time, it continues to try new things and occasionally win prizes. It's interesting that - as Wikipedia has just informed me - that the earlier episodes tend to use loners as the central characters, these days teams are prefered, though.
Bizarrely, the English language Wikipedia contains the assertion: Standing: End of October 2006. The GDR equivalent of Tatort is Polizeiruf 110, which today shares a time slot with Tatort.
Which, as it happens, is true, because ARD now makes it - but it does rather sound as if the author thinks that East Germany still exists...