GELD.MACHT.LIEBE aka. Money.Power.Love

Actually, the show's name is ambigious - since "macht" can also be the 3rd person singular of the verb "machen" - and therefore it can also be translated as "Money Leads to Love".

The opening looks really outdated. I won't even bother watching the show.

The opening credits of Dutch primetime soap Westenwind:

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The show was about two competing families of shipbuilders in Rotterdam: The Noordermeer family and the De Graaf family. Loved this show (although the last 2 seasons were pretty bad).

German primetime soap opera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEIKg2N9OXU

Geld.Macht.Liebe:

Here's the Italian soap Vivere opening... It got cancelled in 2008, after 2,130 episodes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utIWcabo0tE

Edited February 13, 201016 yr by Sylph

I watched Vivere a few times, not bad, but not that interesting... Italian soap "CentoVetrine" was much more fun.

That's great! How did you find the production values on both shows?

You mean, sets, costume ecc? Pretty cheap Especially in "Vivere". "Vivere" was kind of family-oriented soap. "CentoVetrine" was sometimes bad, sometimes really good. They had a great female villain Anita Ferri (too bad they killed her off).

Edited February 19, 201015 yr by CassieFan

Openings of the current Croatian telenovelas "Dolina sunca" (Sunny valley) and "Najbolje godine" (The Best Years):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpG96kCXtDg

Edited February 20, 201015 yr by CassieFan

Openings of the past Croatian telenovelas #1:

Villa Maria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgoR_NtumU

Ljubav u zaledju (Love in the offside)

Openings of the past Croatian telenovelas #2:

Obicni ljudi (Ordinary People)

Ponos Ratkajevih (The Pride of the Rathkay Family)

Openings of the past Croatian telenovelas #3:

Zakon ljubavi (The Law of Love)

Sve ce biti dobro (Everything is going to be alright)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRY12-BGvlw

New "Marienhof" opening:

http://mediathek.daserste.de/daserste/servlet/content/4065026?pageId=487890&moduleId=437236&categoryId=&goto=&show=

Current "Sturm der Liebe" opening:

http://mediathek.daserste.de/daserste/servlet/content/3124408?pageId=&moduleId=5290&categoryId=&goto=&show=

Current "Verbotene Liebe" opening:

http://mediathek.daserste.de/daserste/servlet/content/3319064?pageId=&moduleId=439104&categoryId=&goto=&show=

Huntress: Watching those German openings, I noticed how the entire casts are white, with no other racial groups at all. Weird, considering the amount of debate that goes into US/UK/Oz soaps not being diverse enough (and right that is). Have the longer running soaps been more multicultural in the past? Is diversity an issue in the German TV industry?

I really like the latest Marienhof opening; it's very comedic, which is different to the majority of soaps openings that are usually either, serious, dramatic, out-of-date, or just a plain title card.

Brand New Neighbours opening for their 25th Anniversary - they're awesome, and they really capture the popular old style opening credits of the early 2000s. Theme could do with a remix, but we can't have everything, considering this EP is prone to getting everything wrong.

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Edited March 27, 201015 yr by Ben

The Neighbours theme from the late 90s is better but I do like the new credits (Declan is so great, and such eye candy, I don't know how they're going to replace him). If I didn't watch the show I would assume Toadie and Lucas are a couple.

Yeah, I liked the late 90s theme, too. Also was a fan of the jazzy version - the one that got canned by the critics. Strangely, EE's jazz theme also got trashed by the critics, and I loved that one, too!

I thought the same thing about Lucas and Toadie. Normally, they'd have a third party involved, like Lou, but then I guess Lyn would be redundant.

And Declan is awesome! The recast is gonna be weird, and the portrayal will lack James' natural chemistry with Jane Hall (Rebecca), and baby India. I mean, what are the chances of the recast having equally good chemistry with them, too?