Let’s discover fresh strategies and working tools for making successful humour formats! How can we best combine daring craziness, with Public broadcasting service craftsmanship and production values? How conceptualised should a comedy be to travel? Which local elements support international remakes and which make them impossible? Four very different humour concepts offer their own success recipes. The news spoof Rural News features two male actors in the most shabby surroundings. How did it become talk of town in Portugal? In Belgium Foxes on the Run made fun of strictly female issues and hit top ratings. Could these local shows travel the way the Australian political satire Rake has done? Rake was written for its leading star who has a reputation as a womanizer. How hard is it so sell and recast a comedy that is created for a certain actor? The German national broadcaster ZDF makes fun of itself and the entertainment industry with the new comedy series Lerchenberg in which the main actor plays himself.
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Lerchenberg tells the story of former TV star Sascha Hehn (played by himself). Sascha is at the end of his rope, his career is in a slump, his money lost in a dubious… -
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Women today want it all! We want a career and children; 400 friends on Facebook and after work drinks with the girlfriends. We want to be excellent cooks and constantly… -
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Rural News is a fake news programme from a nonexisting rural village in Portugal called Curral de Moinas: if one wants to find Curral de Moinas, one should look behind…