Deutschland 83 / Industry + Audience

Production

• Co-production (Two different companies) from different companies
• International Co-Production
• UFA & Sundance TV

International Co-Production

These are increasingly being produced because of:

• Resources like settings and money.
• If two companies come together it means they have more money to spend on shows.
• Companies like Netflix and Amazon are making many TV shows so smaller local companies like Sundance TV & UFA can't compete with Netflix, they don't have that much money but can combine with somebody else to do that.
• International Co-Production = International audience

They did have a german audience but a more significantly larger english speaking audience. There could be some disadvantages such as:

• Overall poor profit at the end.
• Clash of ideologies

We might lose some of this national identity, does it really have that german identity? 

Context 

UFA:

• UFA is a subsidiary of RTL
• RTL is a large television conglomerate
• they're international
• officially based in Luxemberg
• they work across europe
• one of their main subsidiaries is FreeMantle who have made things such as X Factor, family feud and pop idol
• Existed since 1917

Sundance:

• Subsidiary of AMC
• Who have done things like Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad
• Well Established

Budget:

• Less than Stranger Things
• Berlin: Babylon - Most Expensive German TV show, cost $47 Million which is less than Stranger Thing's S1
• Production Design
• Location
• Actors
• Music Licensing

Distribution

Distributed in Europe by FreeMantle and in America by Kino Lorber and in America it was shown on Sundance TV, in the UK on Channel 4. Channel 4 did not make it, it was just shown on there.

Channel 4 buy the rights to show, they don't make a lot of things they show.

Channel 4:

Launched in 1982, as the fourth TV Channel.

In order to get a license to create this channel they were required and still required to create a public service remit

public service remit - fulfil certain criteria (like how the BBC has inform educate and entertain) with channel 4 they have to:

1. Demonstrate innovation in experimenting creativity (original ideas, doing things in a new way)
2. Appeal to tastes and interests to culturally diverse society (truly reflect diversity within our country and specifically show representation of minority ethnic group)
3. Include an educational nature
4. Exhibit a distinctive character (Should be not like other things on TV, distinctive)

Examples:

Hollyoaks

• Demonstrate innovation in experimenting creativity (original ideas, doing things in a new way)
• Experimental Film Language
• Slightly Innovative Experimental things
• Also reflect cultural diversity

The End of The F**cking World

• Demonstrate innovation in experimenting creativity (original ideas, doing things in a new way)
• Exhibit a distincitve character (Should be not like other things on TV, distincitve)
• Experimental & Distincitve - Just from the title
• Made on Channel 4, shown on Channel 4 but then sold to Netflix

Ackley Bridge

• Appeal to tastes and interests to culturally diverse soceity (truly reflect diversity within our country and specifically show representation of minority ethnic group)
• The Diversity; minority ethnic groups but not really doing much of the rest.

Humans

• Appeal to tastes and interests to culturally diverse soceity (truly reflect diversity within our country and specifically show representation of minority ethnic group)
• Distincive Character

D83 Was Launched on Channel 4 in 2016, but on a special platform called Walter Presents Shows

• Created by Walter Lullizino
• Channel 4 funded
• He handpicked foreign language TV shows to put on
• It debuted with Deutschland 83
• Adult Themes
• Algorithm or Human? 
• Maybe an Algorithm could be better rather than watching what one man could be watching
• Do these cover Channel 4's PSR? - Not to do with the UK, not really celebrating cultural diversity but we could say that part of the UK could be this. Maybe some distincitve character.