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The King and Queen Consort have arrived in Germany for the start of their first state visit.The royal pair said in a joint statement, released on their official Twitter account, it was a “great joy” to be able to develop the “longstanding friendship between our two nations”.The couple were greeted by a 21-gun salute and a fly-past by two fighter jets after they emerged from the ministerial plane Voyager and paused at the top of the steps. As a mark of respect, two Typhoon jets escorted the plane carrying Charles and Camilla, their entourage and a large number of media for a period as it approached Berlin-Brandenburg Government Airport.

Oti and Motsi Mabuse have became regulars on our screens over recent years, with the sisters both going on carve out impressive careers in TV. Motsi, 41, is best known for being a judge on Strictly Come Dancing while Oti, 32, was previously a professional dancer on the BBC One show and is now a judge on Dancing on Ice. The sisters are now appearing on ITV's DNA Journey together, with their moving episode seeing them head to South Africa to find out more about their family connections.

Marta Balaga London-based sales outfit Taskovski Films has boarded Spanish documentary “Fauna,” soon to premiere at Visions du Réel and Hot Docs.  Pau Faus directs, while Sergi Camerón produces for Nanouk Films. Faus, Cameron and Julia R. Aymar are also credited as writers.   In the film, set on the outskirts of Barcelona, two realities collide as an old shepherd constantly finds himself in front of a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. Afflicted with a bone disease, he witnesses his profession disappearing, while the scientists are busier than ever researching a COVID vaccine. 

UK travellers have been warned that a 24-hour transport strike is underway in Germany. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has updated its travel advice for the country.

Series Mania on March 21 just after a Spanish series, “Wrong Side of the Tracks” from Mediaset España and Alea Media, had scored 149.6 million watching hours in three weeks on Netflix for Seasons 1 and 2.  That platform connection and power of Spanish series threaded most of the series and much of the commentary at Tuesday’s Next from Spain, supported by Audiiovisual from Spain.  At least in terms of titles now ready to hit the market, there’s little sign as yet of platform pullback in Spain. Rather, it remains a ground zero in the streamer wars.

England men's under-20s will host Germany at the Manchester City Academy Stadium on Wednesday 22 March - and we are giving away five family passes to see them in action.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent RTL2 has axed a documentary series featuring controversial German singer Michael Wendler and his wife Laura Müller following an intense backlash. Wendler has sparked criticism after making anti-semitic remarks and linking Germany’s COVID protocols to Nazi politics. Throughout the pandemic, Wendler said repeatedly that the pandemic was a conspiracy. The six-part docu soap which RTL2 had commissioned was meant focused on Wendler and his wife’s pregnancy. In a statement released on Wednesday, RTL2 said it “noticed the vehemence of the reactions and take the voices of (its) audience seriously. We apologize if we have hurt feelings here.” RTL2 said it “has always distanced itself from extremism of all kinds and stands for open-mindedness and tolerance.”

Naman Ramachandran Writer, producer and script editor Cassandra Johnson-Bekoe has joined U.K. independent production company DARE Pictures in the newly created position of head of scripted development. Johnson-Bekoe was previously senior development executive at Daniel Kaluuya’s production outfit 59%, overseeing the company’s slate and generating new IP across international and regional markets. Prior to this she worked in scripted development and her credits include “Ted Lasso” season 2 (WarnerBros/Apple+), “Riches” (Greenacre Films for ITV), “Secret Invasion” (Marvel Studios) and “The Chemistry of Death” (Cuba Pictures Ltd, for Paramount+). Reporting into DARE CEO Derren Lawford, Johnson-Bekoe will focus on developing the company’s scripted slate, as well bringing with her an original slate of IP and working on new drama and film projects with a view to taking them from pitch to commission with a particular emphasis on the U.S. and African markets. She will identify and develop relationships with emerging and established storytelling talent.

German musician Volker Bertelmann nudged out the competition to pick up his first Academy Award Sunday for Netflix’s war epic All Quiet on the Western Front.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken out after Gary Lineker was dropped from his role on Match of the Day. The row broke out earlier this week after the former England striker took to social media to hit out at Government plans to stop small boats making the journey to Britain.

Jessica Kiang It might have been a few decades since you left school. You might imagine the modern classroom — especially one in a decently funded, mid-sized German high school — to be as alien to your own educational background as to be unrecognizable. And yet one of the remarkable aspects of İlker Çatak’s highly effective, slow-cooker drama is a strangely specific familiarity. It delivers you directly into a sense memory of chalk dust and boredom, of fidgeting at your desk and gazing longingly through big windows that seem tauntingly designed for exactly that purpose. “The Teachers’ Lounge” is about a lot of things — conformity, rebellion, racism, optics, intergenerational mistrust — but it is also a stark reminder, from both the teacher and the student side, of what school actually was for so many of us: our first and most foundational experience of institutionalization. 

EXCLUSIVE: Senior BBC journalists are furious at Gary Lineker’s “egregious” breach of impartiality rules after he compared UK government asylum policy to 1930s Nazi Germany.

Creed III‘s immersive fight scenes have been spilling out into the audience in France and Germany, with reports of brawls at a number of screenings of Michael B Jordan’s Rocky spin-off over its opening week, beginning March 1.

BBC Match of the Day host Gary Lineker has landed himself and the corporation in hot water once again, this time on the government’s controversial asylum policy.

Frank Doelger’s eco-thriller drama The Swarm has made a splash on German TV.

Schindler’s List director Steven Spielberg, appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert onThursday night, had some chilling words on the rise of public antisemitism in recent years. The director, whose most recent film is the Oscar nominated The Fabelmans, said that “not since Germany in the ‘30s have I witnessed antisemitism no longer lurking, but standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler and Mussolini, kind of daring us to defy it.”

King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla are set to visit France and Germany for the first state visits of his new reign, it has been announced. The royal couple will use the occasion to "celebrate Britain’s relationship" with the two countries through an array of engagements. It will be the first time that Charles, 74, has travelled abroad in an official capacity since becoming King.

At nearly 4 million residents, Berlin is the largest city in the European Union – and one of the coolest we’ve ever visited!

Amy Hart couldn't be happier to be expecting her first child with her boyfriend Sam Rason - and she says they're already thinking about when and where they will be tying the knot in the future. Former Love Island star Amy, 30, has told OK! that they have decided when they would be exchanging vows, but can't reveal the details just yet. "We want to get married in Spain – my parents have got a place in La Cala.

Rogers Waters show in Frankfurt, Germany has been cancelled after the city council described the Pink Floyd musician as “one of the world’s most widely-known antisemites”.The gig was due to be held on May 28 at Festhalle in Frankfurt, a publicly owned venue. However the municipal government announced that the gig would be cancelled over the musician’s views on Israel.According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the cancellation notice cited Waters’ boycott of Israel – also known as the BDS campaign – talks with Hamas-affiliated media, comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa and anti-semitic imagery at shows.It also referenced the sensitivity surrounding the venue, which was used as a detention centre for some 3000 Jewish people before being deported to concentration camps in 1938.Waters has not yet officially commented on the cancellation, but he re-shared a TikTok video of US-Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud who defended the musician as an “anti-racist”.“Thanks Ramzy! You tell’em my brother,” Waters said, with three Palestinian flag emojis and a dove.