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Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.

The global environmental thriller is set in the present day, where anomalies and unnatural behavior in marine animals are causing upheaval all over the world. The Swarm follows a global group of scientists who come together to tackle one of the biggest challenges mankind has ever faced. They make the chilling discovery that deep at the bottom of the sea resides a collective intelligence which has suffered the ravages of civilization on its habitat - and decided to fight back.

Drama set in a world powered by an AI to ensure a freer, fairer and more humane society. However, as the community approaches its twentieth anniversary and cities around the world line up to replicate it, the secret behind its creation threatens to destroy it.

Based on motives by the global best-seller of the same name by Patrick Suskind, the Perfume series shifts the action to the modern day and uses the book's idea of manipulating people through scent as a springing-off point. A young profiler investigating a series of brutal murders traces events back to a small cadre of boys at a boarding school who experimented with manipulating people using human scents.

Sløborn is a gripping TV series about a deadly virus outbreak that devastates a small island community in the North Sea. As the virus spreads rapidly, the residents must fight for their survival while dealing with the breakdown of society and their own personal demons.

The series tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II: As Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern Front, war nurse, aspiring singer, and Jewish tailor respectively. The narrative spans over five years starting in 1941 Berlin, when the friends meet up for a last time before embarking on their journeys, enthusiastically vowing to meet up again the following Christmas. The story's conclusion is set in a time shortly after the end of the war in 1945/46.

The series follows a number of national police agencies, working through the framework of EUROPOL, to attempt to solve a series of cross-border murders.

Inspector Niémans and his colleague Camille Delauney are investigating four separate cases which lead them to various French provinces and to Germany. Each case entails a murder mystery which demands the involvement of the Parisian specialists.

Set in Cold War Germany, it portrays the fates of two families on either side of the Berlin Wall. The story revolves around the relationship between an East German "Romeo" agent - a spy who uses seduction as a way to unearth secrets - and his female target in the West.

Every continent has its ruins - places where only stones tell the tale of a fallen people. They might lay buried under the Earth, in the shade of jungle canopy or amidst the teeming industry of a modern city. However, they all raise the same questions: How could something so great all but vanish? Why do civilizations collapse? In this 6-part series, we uncover the scientific reasons why some of history's most fascinating peoples have disappeared in the face of the natural world's might.

About a man who, in his own words, is not Sherlock Holmes - but a scientist.

Berlin, 1956. Caterina Schöllack, owner of a dance school, has three daughters, of whom two are fulfilling the expectations of the society: Helga is going to marry attorney Wolfgang Von Boost and the nurse Eva has planned every detail of her future, including her plan to marry her boss, Professor Fassbender. Only Monika fights against the conventions of her time. Her great inspiration to do so is the rock 'n' roll.

In this version of the acclaimed norwegian show Skam, Druck, a group of german teenagers live the ups and downs of life, enjoying every second and learning that life is worth living.

German political satire.

Trained as a boxer by her father, Zelda fights in the family boxing ring against fairground visitors. That's where she falls for the sensitive and sophisticated Ben who hides a secret - he's a vampire. As Zelda is faced with this horrible realisation, she learns another secret closer to home - her family are vampire slayers and a brutal feud between the two families has existed for generations. While the tension between the two families grows, does Ben and Zelda's love stand a chance?

A nightly half-hour series unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity, or even accuracy. Hosted by Oliver Welke, the show is a valid pedant of the The Daily Show.

The shores of Lake Constance is the workplace of german homicide detective Micha Oberländer and his austrian counterpart Hannah Zeiler. In front of the stunning landscape of Lake Constance, Micha and Hannah along with their sometimes grumpy colleague, Thomas Komlatschek, are confronted with brutal crimes, hidden secrets and seemingly unsolvable mysteries.

Germany's only serious entertainment show!

Jan Böhmermann returns.

A semi-detached house in the countryside - that's where a Berlin family ends up in this comedy series. The residents of the other half are skeptical as to whether the newcomers will be able to integrate properly.

Luna Kunath (Caroline Erikson) and Tamara Meurer (Anjua Pahl) work together in the Potsdam murder commission. Luna is single, strong, assertive, funny, empathic, sporty and fast in the head. It is an excellent policewoman whose carefree always accompanies with a little naivety and brings you again and again in brenzy situations. Tamara, however, has more mature, adult. The two of the boss Bernhard Henschel (Michael Lott) and the colleagues David Grünbaum (Omar El-Saeidi), Christoph Westermann (Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen), lail-sure Thomas Brandner (Yung No) and legal physician Werner Vense (Bernd Stegemann). Potsdam, Berlin's pretty little sister, confronts the commissars again and again with a wide variety of life effects. However, the team not only determines in Potsdam, but must always be out of the surrounding area. Because the crime does not stop at the city limit.

An unemployed graphic designer begins to print counterfeit money in his home. Until one day, the Mafia is at his door.

The story of five German friends in the years from 1941 to 1945. Their friendship was meant to last their whole lives, but the war changed everything.

The Munich trio Ludwig Schaller, Harald Neuhauser and Angelika Flierl do not enjoy the best reputation among their police colleagues: a boss who was in psychiatric treatment, a policeman who is considered a notorious womanizer, and a young colleague who seems to have gotten the job solely through her connections. Their success is, however, has to do with their unorthodox investigation methods.

The show is about two Neo-Nazis, who live in a communal apartment in Plattenbau. When the small girl Lara enters her life, their ideology starts to crumble, because the black girl is the result of a one-night stands of one of the two.