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This session examines how television media play a critical role in shaping ideas and expressions about the human condition. In a more and more complex world, individuals find it increasingly hard to cope with everything: concepts of beauty, demands for appropriate behaviour, and acting according to social norms. In this area, commercial television has found a great source for fictional as well as non-fictional formats, which reflect the momentum of disruption in society. Now, public television is entering this thematic space and developing its own format approaches. In this session, we present four formats that all deal with motives of despair, dissatisfaction, or other forms of individual and social dislike. How do public media interfere in these moments? Do they have to interfere at all? Shouldn’t they just mirror a social phenomenon instead of shaping a social mind? Do public media need to offer one-sided views on social problems and ongoing discussions? Find out yourself by watching four highly engaging and provocative formats and discussing public television’s role from four distinct angles.