High viewer ratings, long running times, and above-average profits are what make series and daily soap operas so appealing to program managers. International series trends and the state-of-the-art of industrial TV production are on the agenda of this seminar of the Cologne Conference.
Host: Caren Miosga, NDR, Hamburg ________________________________________________________________________________________
10.00 hrs - 10.30 hrs
Keynote
Series, Sitcom, Daily Soap. The Development of the
Serial Television in an International Context
PD Dr. Gerd Hallenberger, Director, Eurofiction/University Siegen ________________________________________________________________________________________
10.30 hrs - 11.15 hrs
Interview
The ARD-Strategy in Serial Television
Dr. Stephanie Heckner, Head of Series Department, BR, Munich
Jana Brandt, Head of TV Movies/Series/Children, MDR, Leipzig
Rosemarie Wintgen, Head of ARD Department for Primetime Series, RBB, Potsdam ________________________________________________________________________________________
11.15 hrs - 11.45 hrs Coffee break ________________________________________________________________________________________
11.45 hrs - 12.15 hrs
Presentation
Industrial Production. Aspects of Economic Series
Production
Rainer Wemcken, Managing Director, Grundy UFA TV Produktion, Potsdam-Babelsberg ________________________________________________________________________________________
12.15 hrs - 13.00 hrs
Panel
Short, Fast and under Control. On the Economy
and Quality in Fictional Series Production
Dr. Bernhard Gleim, Head of Series, NDR, Hamburg
Hansjörg Füting, Managing Director, Neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft mbH, Munich-Unterföhring
Rainer Wemcken, Managing Director, Grundy UFA TV Produktion, Potsdam-Babelsberg
Jan-Richard Schuster, Head of Series, RTL Television, Cologne
Hermann Kirchmann, Head of Fiction, SAT.1, Berlin