David Hasselhoff To Headline German Series ‘Ze Network’ From CBS Studios & Syrreal Entertainment

German media giant Bertlesmann had a surprisingly good year. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Bertelsmann, which controls leading European commercial TV broadcaster RTL Group, production giant Fremantle, music label BMG, and book publisher Penguin Random House, boosted its annual profit by 34 percent to $1.77 billion (€1.5 billion) last year, the highest level since 2006, with operating (EBITDA) profit hitting a new high of $3.65 billion (€3.1 billion).

The German government of Chancellor Angela Merkel has extended and tightened COVID-19 lockdown measures in the country until at least April 18. The new lockdown regulations will see all shops and indoor activity shut down as of Monday, March 29.

Claudia Schiffer gave fans a very rare glimpse into life at home recently when she shared a stunning selfie soaking up the sun in her incredible backyard. The German supermodel, 50, wowed fans with her age-defying good looks - and her stunning garden - as she got wistful over the weather. MORE: Claudia Schiffer reveals she never thought she would make it as a model She wrote: "Sunny days in LA… when is the sun coming to England?"  WATCH: 10 of the most dazzling celebrity engagement ringsClaudia

Gallery: Yippee-Ki-Yay! Bruce Willis' top 10 films (BANG Showbiz)Syrreal CEO Christian Alvart will also direct the show, as well as produce alongside Sigi Kamml and Timm Oberwelland, while David himself will serve as executive producer. CBS have signed a first-look production deal with German production company Syrreal Entertainment, with 'Ze Entertainment' to be the first project under the partnership.

Sky Studios, the production arm of Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky, has upped Jane Millichip to chief content officer across Europe, expanding her remit from just the U.K. to all of Sky's markets and overseeing the teams behind Sky original shows, including I Hate Suzie, Zero Zero Zero, Gangs of London and Babylon Berlin.

David Hasselhoff is going meta in Ze Network, a new German TV series in which he will star as Hollywood actor David Hasselhoff. The plot of the dark comedy sees the Hoff cast in a theater play in Germany only to be caught up in an international conspiracy of former Cold War assassins.

Amazon Prime Video has snapped up the rights to German coming of age series We Children From Bahnhof Zoo for the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Benelux.

Ed Meza @edmezavarDavid Hasselhoff is heading to Germany to star in a comedy spy series produced by Christian Alvart’s Berlin-based Syrreal Entertainment in what will be the first project from the company’s new international first-look deal with CBS Studios.A straight-to-series order for Mediengruppe RTL’s SVOD platform TVNow, “Ze Network” sees Hasselhoff playing himself as he travels to Germany to headline a stage production in what he believes is a major theater in East Berlin, only to

Sam Heughan has proven he's a real Scotsman despite revealing he has French, German and Norwegian ancestry. And as Sam talked about growing up in Scotland and his roots he told of his plans to extend his tweed and tartan line to kilts and skirts as well as shawls.

Alex Pettyfer and Toni Garrn are about to be parents!

BERLIN -- One of Germany's best-known TV directors and scriptwriters has been formally charged with raping an aspiring actress almost 25 years ago, Munich prosecutors said Friday.Dieter Wedel was the first prominent figure in the country named when the #MeToo movement targeting alleged sexual abusers in the media and the arts gathered pace in Germany three years ago.Wedel, 81, has denied claims by several women that he pressured them for sex.The 20-page indictment against Wedel claims that in

EXCLUSIVE: 300: Rise Of An Empire and The Departed producer Gianni Nunnari of Hollywood Gang Productions and producer Andre L III of MiLu Entertainment have acquired rights to Cuban author and journalist Armando Lucas Correa’s well-received novel The German Girl, which they are developing as an international TV series.

Shake it off! Katharine McPhee revealed she was originally concerned what people would think of her and David Foster’s age gap, she revealed on a recent episode of “Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast.”