Simples, it did not work out in the good old US of A so they had to come back to Deutschland and either 'mieten' or 'kaufen'

seriously I remember that show too, that was made by RTL too me thinks? so they probably got in touch with RTL again after USA failed.

There are so many faked TV shows on German TV it's unbelievable do you ever watch the 'Richter' shows? My apartment block in Germany was on one of those shows one night, i was in bed watching TV with lady friend and we saw our place being watched by the G.A.G (the apartment police of housing authority), and Sat1 were with them making a show. It's a long story so I can confirm that one German TV reality show was actually REAL

Faust the remake...

If I remember rightly, they were still trying to get their business in the US off the ground, but wanted a pied a terre in Germany. Both programmes are on Vox I think.

I haven't watched any of the Richter shows, but I do often wonder where they find some of the characters in their reality series. I used to watch "Mitten im Leben" and a couple of years ago, some of the episodes could be fascinating. Others were downright hilarious. I stopped watching when it seemed to degenerate into nothing but relationship problems.

RTL owns VOX


To much of these 'reality' shows are faked, but they are not even faked good, the writing/storyboard for instance is downright childish and the acting so over the top, OK the Germans they are all blah blah that bit is really true but on these shows its so overboard, a very good example you gave in 'Mitten im Leben' Thanx.

I've remembered why I stopped watching "Goodbye Deutschland". Wasn't that the programme that turned into the Danielle Katzenberger show? I quite enjoyed her first time round, but once was enough!

Yes it was, it was always her and her 'Mallorcan adventure'

Now motorised and ready to rock and roll....

I was even in time to record tales of Hoffman, the downside is that having rescanned it started recording the wrong thing, so I set it manually and cut the ending off!

Now busy adding "new" satellites...

Glad you got it all done successfully. Good luck when you come to put the Hotbird channels into an order that suits you!

I don't

I just create a little spreadsheet with the channels I normally need...

Incidentally I stumbled across Otello very late last night as I was flicking through all my "new" channels. RAI on hotbird.

Just bumping this to save scrolling back

The opera version of the Shakespeare play? If so I know the story as I read Othello (as the play is called) at school. I liked it, it wasn't as "heavy" as some of the other Shakespeare plays. I still have my Othello book with all the notes I made in it.

Yes it's based on the Shakespeare play Othello...

Otello is simply the Italian spelling.

I was right then. I feel like digging out my old Othello book and all the notes I had from school

I really hope after all the messing around I've been doing that my box records this today, any minute now in fact..


Indeed you were...

Just got around to watching the first show (the swap with 2 Namibian car mechanics) and it was really interesting and entertaining. Definitely a series to follow.


I think I've got it all right, so let me know if you had any problems.

As it happens I did have a "problem", someone forgot to plug the hard drive back into the box

I haven't downloaded it to the DVD recorder yet, it's been rather busy here, but I'll put you down for a copy when I do.

You're a star I was really quite miffed when I discovered I hadn't got it, especially after rushing my motor installation to be finished in time...

No problem. Have you been caught up checking out all your new channels and, most importantly, have you found anything interesting?!

Not opera, but I found this on RAI1:

Lasciami cantare http://www.rai1.rai.it/dl/RaiUno/pro...day=2011-08-06

My wife was also happy that I found Horse & Country on Eurobird 1.

The link didn't work, but is it the programme you mentioned on the Opera thread in the Music forum?

Yes it's the same one...

WEDNESDAY 10 AUGUST

Opera Verbier 2009 - Don Giovanni Highlights Arte 03:40, 67 min

SUNDAY, 14 AUGUST

Documentation Edita Gruberova The Art of Bel Canto Arte 06:00, 60 min

Documentation Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - the art-driven 09:35 ORF2, 60 min

Opera Herrenchiemsee Festival - La traviata BR 12:45, 45 min

Opera live from the Bayreuth Festival in 2011 Richard Wagner: "Lohengrin" - Acts I and II were far it live broadcasts of the Bayreuth Festival, always on the radio for the first time this year, you can also attend a live televised performance. With Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch is provided for high-caliber singers enjoy, Andris Nelsons is conducting. Arte 17:15, 165 min

Opera live from the Bayreuth Festival in 2011 Richard Wagner: "Lohengrin" - III. Act Arte 20:15, 95 min

Documentation explore opera of Wagner's Rienzi staged Stölzl Arte 21:50, 50 min

Please remember as always to allow for time differences at your location.

SUNDAY 21 AUGUST

Opera Herrenchiemsee Festival - Don Giovanni as Enoch zu Guttenberg, conductor and director with a new version of Mozart's Don Giovanni - an interesting experiment with one of the "evergreens" of the operatic repertoire! BR 12:45, 45 min

I'll actually be in the Herrenchiemsee area next week visiting friends!