British motoring TV show Top Gear has become a worldwide phenomenon with it unique blend of cars, humour and antics. Now there are reports that a German broadcaster will try to ape its success.
Faced with an obscure question about East German washing machines on Monday night, a politician on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” thought he knew who had the answer – he phoned Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Online fashion retailer Zalando has prompted an investigation by state prosecutors in Erfurt against an undercover journalist who revealed alleged "trade secrets" in a TV report on Monday night.
German media giant Bertelsmann said Thursday it will cut its stake in Luxembourg-based television and broadcasting giant RTL by selling shares on the stock exchange.
German Health Minister Daniel Bahr has sharply criticised the first episode of a new RTL programme “The Jenke Experiment” in which the show’s host gets drunk on a daily basis to see how excessive alcoholism affects his life.
German broadcaster RTL abruptly removed programme “7 Days of Sex” (<i>7 Tage Sex</i>) from its regularly scheduled time slot last Wednesday after it was revealed that the featured couple had the same father.
Politicians have stopped a German copy of a British reality television show following women giving birth, telling hospital staff to throw the camera teams out.
Germany’s new superstar is 17-year-old Swiss singer Luca Hänni, who beat out the competition Saturday evening in the popular <i>Deutschland Sucht den Superstar</i> ("Germany Seeks a Superstar") television show.
A German judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a couple of swingers after their 15-year-old daughter discovered a video of them in a sex club with their faces undisguised on the website of TV channel RTL.
German television network RTL is reviewing its security arrangements after a group of Kurdish sympathizers stormed one of their Cologne studios and staged a sit-in protest.
Leading European television group, RTL, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann, is ready to spend more than €1 billion ($1.44 billion) for control of the Polish company TVN, press reports said Thursday.
Reinhard Mohn, who built Germany's Bertelsmann from a family printing and publishing business into one of the world's largest media companies, has died at the age of 88, the firm said on Sunday.
A new reality television show due to be launched in June, in which teenagers will be filmed looking after babies "donated" for the programme, sparked outrage in Germany on Thursday.
