Oh hell nah. I’m Not wasting my time on another pro7 Daily. Mallorca was Great and I was invested and they cancelled it. Lotta in Love started off so Great and pro7 gave up on it so fast and burned off the last few months in the Middle of the Night. Nah I’ll pass

But good News for sat.1’s soap “Die Landarztpraxis’ will get another season and this time it will be produced for a whole year. At least one sat1 show since verliebt in berlin that has some success 

Cooking academy? Wait a minute. Is pro7 ripping off Ici tout commence ? The French soap ? Ain’t no way lol 

Thanks @Huntress for keeping us in the loop. I'd have no idea otherwise. I'm glad Germany is still trying new soaps, as most places aren't.

Early 2026 Marks the Return of Sat.1 Soap „Die Landarztpraxis“ with the 4th season and this time it will get more episodes.

i checked out the new pro7 soap. Watched Episode 1-2 so far. It’s alright. Nothing groundbreaking or Special. I will wait until this show is getting to the 50th Episode and then I May keep watching. But pro7 and their Track Record of Soaps is a joke. 

Looks like ProSieben has already buried "Die Cooking Academy". The linear primetime run ends this week – after only 20 episodes – and the remaining, already completed episodes will only air early in the morning and via streaming on JOYN (and Disney+). They had originally planned 120 episodes, but it doesn’t look like there’ll be any more than that. On linear TV, the soap had a lousy market share of 2-3 % and about 120,000 viewers.

Meanwhile, UU has done a bit of cast cleanup: Diego Carlos Seyfarth (David Junker), Julius Dombrinck (Theo Wolters), and Floriane Eichhorn (Nadine Pfeiffer) have all been written out over the past few weeks. Seyfarth and Dombrinck had been around since 2022, and Eichhorn since 2023. In exchange, Nadine Menz (ex-Ayla, GZSZ) will be joining in December as Britta’s sister Naomi, and Guido Broscheit (who’s been in countless TV formats over the past 20 years) started last week as Jori Jansen. Viola Wedekind (another veteran actress) will debut as Dana Gülek soon.

This week on GZSZ:

"Behind the Scenes" of the hostage situation:

 

Thanks as always @Huntress . Will you miss Die Cooking Academy?

Guido Broscheit‘s best character was on the German Daily „Rote Rosen“ as Falk. Great to see him on another soap

UU now also has its own YouTube channel. Since December 1st, they've started uploading the very first episodes (apparently they'll continue doing so until Christmas). Previously, these episodes were only available on RTL+ (with a paid subscription).

Episode 1 (original airdate: November 28th, 1994): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8ARxV6PIg

I'm not sure if the episodes are geoblocked, though.

The following classic soaps have all their episodes up on YouTube for free (at least in Germany, not sure if they're geoblocked elsewhere):

Verbotene Liebe (ARD, 1995-2015): https://www.youtube.com/@verboteneliebe

Alles oder nichts (Sat.1, 2018-2019): https://www.youtube.com/@allesodernichts5323/videos

Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies (Pro7, 1999-2000): https://www.youtube.com/@suchenachdemparadies

Alle zusammen – jeder für sich (RTL2, 1996-1997): https://www.youtube.com/@allezusammen1996

Alle zusammen was Limited with the filming on Location but gave it their all. I was upset when it was cancelled. But I get why they did it

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by AMCOLTLLover

@Huntress Thanks for sharing all these channels. UU is geoblocked for me but the rest are available. A shame as I wanted to see what they were doing with Ringo and Easy.

11 hours ago, Huntress said:

UU now also has its own YouTube channel. Since December 1st, they've started uploading the very first episodes (apparently they'll continue doing so until Christmas). Previously, these episodes were only available on RTL+ (with a paid subscription).

Episode 1 (original airdate: November 28th, 1994): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8ARxV6PIg

I'm not sure if the episodes are geoblocked, though.

The following classic soaps have all their episodes up on YouTube for free (at least in Germany, not sure if they're geoblocked elsewhere):

Verbotene Liebe (ARD, 1995-2015): https://www.youtube.com/@verboteneliebe

Alles oder nichts (Sat.1, 2018-2019): https://www.youtube.com/@allesodernichts5323/videos

Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies (Pro7, 1999-2000): https://www.youtube.com/@suchenachdemparadies

Alle zusammen – jeder für sich (RTL2, 1996-1997): https://www.youtube.com/@allezusammen1996

I never knew Verbotene Liebe was available full on YouTube. OMG. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this. My husband has always wanted to watch it from the beginning... He told me he used to catch an episode or two years and years ago. And I think he's going to be veeeey happy when I tell him this. I can't wait to show him this. We may just start it from episode 1 immediately. The episodes are small, so it won't be that much of an issue to add that show to our schedule.

35 minutes ago, Maxim said:

I never knew Verbotene Liebe was available full on YouTube. OMG. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this. My husband has always wanted to watch it from the beginning... He told me he used to catch an episode or two years and years ago. And I think he's going to be veeeey happy when I tell him this. I can't wait to show him this. We may just start it from episode 1 immediately. The episodes are small, so it won't be that much of an issue to add that show to our schedule.

The First 13/14 Years are Like 22 minutes and got upgraded to 45/47 minutes during the final 4-5 Years

8 hours ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

The First 13/14 Years are Like 22 minutes and got upgraded to 45/47 minutes during the final 4-5 Years

We saw the first two episodes before going to bed... and I actually liked them. My husband was on the moon, he was in love. I am more difficult to impress, because I am strictly American daytime guy. But I see lots of potential. Are the first years good? I've seen the first episodes of the original Australian version and this is soo different. I still can't believe the entire show is on YouTube and how slept on it before @Huntress shared it. My husband told me he was going to tell his colleagues at work. He was so happy. 😁

1 hour ago, Maxim said:

We saw the first two episodes before going to bed... and I actually liked them. My husband was on the moon, he was in love. I am more difficult to impress, because I am strictly American daytime guy. But I see lots of potential. Are the first years good? I've seen the first episodes of the original Australian version and this is soo different. I still can't believe the entire show is on YouTube and how slept on it before @Huntress shared it. My husband told me he was going to tell his colleagues at work. He was so happy. 😁

Verbotene Liebe is one of all time favorites. I‘m biased. I even went to Fan Meetings and my Family won a Trip to the Beach with Marienhof and verbotene Liebe to Play Volleyball against them lol

I would say 1995 to 1996/97 are Peak. The Jan and Julia era. After that the Show still was good between 1997/98 but was a Bit struggling. 1998/99 the Show found it’s Groove again and kept being Strong until Like 2001/02. 2001-2002 had a Lot of good Storylines but there was a Bit of a dull era until a Major story ended and a new Family came along. I would say 2003-2004 saw a lot of changes and started to be on Fire again until Like 2007-2009. Lile every soap it had it’s up and downs but the Show was consistent. But i don’t know what happened between 2008/09 but just Like Marienhof it felt Off. But 2010-2012 were a good era again.

I‘m a die hard Fan BUT the final 4-5 Years were Rough. Ansgar von Lahnstein and Tanja von Lahnstein (THE Ultimate GOATS) carried them last few years. Ratings were going down and i started blaming the writers and even the Network. But what really hurt the Show was going from 20 to 45 minutes. U could Tell the writers had no clue how to fill that extra time. But I will give it to ARD they actually really tried saving Verbotene Liebe until 2014. I mean they tried turning it into their current airing Daily Novelas Like Sturm der Liebe but that Concept failed. ARD even Let The Show Film for half a year in Spain on Mallorca. Concept failed. They tried so many things and some were good and some were really bad. A lot of damn cast changes. U had your core characters but Most characters were just staying for 1 to 3 Years besides a few. And the attempt to turn into a weekly was disgusting because of the storyline that didn’t Even made Sense.

The RTL Reboot in 2020 was great and deserved a second Season tbh.

I would say the First 3-4 months Are a Mixed bag but carried by a major Storyarc that Starts with Episode 3. I would say the show always had strong writting and the best acting out of early years from the German soaps tbh. Of course some are corny and felt Like Not good actors but it was charming. But stick with it. It gets good especially Around Episode 109!

Oh and Major Spoiler : the von Sternecks will be replaced and recasted with better actors lol Even though the first Gero wasn’t that Bad and he’s still Fall famous as an Voice actor and the First Barbara was alright but the second brought the missing piece to it