German Producer Dieter Wedel Indicted on Suspicion of Rape

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.

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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.

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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

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You have to wonder when she sleeps. The tireless Maria Schrader — fresh off an Emmy win as outstanding director of a limited series for Netflix's Unorthodox and another critically acclaimed turn in front of the camera as East German spy Lenora Rauch in Amazon's Deutschland 89 — somehow managed, during a pandemic, to shoot her fourth feature film.

Red Arrow Studios, the production group owned by German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, took a €46 million ($55M) hit to its revenue in 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic halted production around the world.

RTL Group has agreed to buy out the Walt Disney Co.'s stake in the German kids channel Super RTL. The Cologne-based free-to-air network — Europe's largest commercial children's channel — was founded in 1999 as a 50-50 joint venture between RTL's German TV division, RTL Deutschland, and BVI Television Investments, Inc., a unit of Disney.

Disney is continuing its retreat from traditional television by selling its stake in German family channel Super RTL.