The Pilcher films have been running on ZDF for almost 30 years. Now the offer is to be significantly thinned out. The plans are also part of a new strategy to attract younger audiences.
ZDF will be shooting fewer “Rosamunde Pilcher” films than before this year. “Shooting is currently being prepared for three new Pilcher films from the end of March,” said a spokesman for the transmitter of the German Press Agency on Thursday. “Bild” first reported on the reduction in films “from originally five to three a year”.
According to “Bild”, the “Inga Lindström” films are also being put to the test. The Pilcher film series with almost 170 films on ZDF has been around for almost 30 years. It is loosely based on novels by British author Rosamunde Pilcher (1924-2019) and is mostly filmed in Cornwall, southern England.
Many millions of euros in broadcasting fees are to be used at ZDF in the future to produce programs for people who have hardly reached the second so far. As a strategy process, the whole thing is called “One ZDF for everyone”. This is intended to reach younger target groups. Against this background, the end of crime series such as “SOKO Hamburg”, “Letzte Spur Berlin” and the people magazine “Leute heute” had already become known in the past few days.
Whether it should remain permanently at three Pilcher films per year is open. The planning for 2024 is “under discussion”, said the ZDF only. The Sunday “Herzkino” series, meanwhile, gets new films such as “Unter’m Apfelbaum” or the series “Family Anders”, which appeared in the program for the first time in mid-March, as reported by the industry service “DWDL.de”. “Also “Dr. “Nice” and “Hotel Barcelona” will be relocated to Sunday evenings in the coming months.”
Source: Stern
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