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Everything is dark. From the cell phone to the refrigerator, from the lamp to the toilet flush - nothing works anymore. Not even in the small village of Kekenberg on the Della, where people quickly have to rethink their lives. Because it quickly becomes clear: When it comes to surviving without electricity, we're all pretty much naked bums by now.

Peter Klien, the reporter without borders, has grown up and moves into his own studio in ORF1. From his desk, he takes a close look at the political situation in Austria - and there's no turning a blind eye!

Major Adolf Kottan investigates for the Austrian police in Vienna in murder cases.

Midwife Lena is fed up with the hectic life in Berlin, so she spontaneously packs her bags and drives to her parents' farm in Bavaria. But there is not only pure alpine idyll waiting there: her mother is not pleased about her return at first and her best friend Julia is not exactly welcoming her with open arms either.

Sheesh! Dave is the symbol of a spoiled generation - not achieving anything but wanting to achieve everything. A lovable clumsy fellow whose excessive self-esteem keeps his spirits uplifted. As a spoiled son of rich parents, he hasn't really had to deal with life yet. His parents were the reason for his "15 minutes of fame" when he was allowed to work as a reporter for ORF. After he finally failed there, he now wants to start out as an influencer; or get money and fame in some other way. In his chaotic search, anti-hero Dave is accompanied by the young filmmaker Jan Nikolaus and his camera, who could win him over to shoot a documentary about his life. In Dave, Jan sees his chance to produce a significant work of contemporary history and, thus, portrays Dave's everyday life.

SOKO Donau (in Germany SOKO Wien) is an Austrian television series, SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" (Special [Police] Commission - meaning special investigation team) in German. The series revolves around the Vienna maritime police. If the SOKO Kitzbühel only deals with alpine cases, the Vienna SOKO is responsible for investigating crimes on the Danube and its tributaries. Not only - as the german title might suggest - in the Austrian capital, but also in Lower and Upper Austria, as well as in the neighboring countries abroad. For example, the Donaucops were already operating in Bratislava and caught one or the other Hungarian or Russian crook. In contrast to the other SOKO series, it is presented in a much more modern way, and in this case, forensics also has a slightly higher status.

The show follows Michelle Sendracek with her daily struggles as head of a small cleaning company.

The comedy series StadtKomödie is shot alternately in different cities and federal states of Austria with different actors and different directors.

Cult-Series with Karl Merkatz about a working-class family in the 10th District of Vienna in the 70ties with typical Viennese language and charm.

MA 2412 is a fake service, inspired by the Magistral Department of Vienna (MA), and Christmas (12/24). The series is a parody of the work in an office in general, and mostly in an Austro-Viennese Office. It shows pretty much all the common clichés about offices.

Police officer Hannes Bucher's marriage is crumbling. Years ago he married into the Hartmann brothers' clan and although he loves his wife Maria and his disabled daughter Sandra, the marriage is crumbling. The disaster takes its course when Bucher picks up his niece Rosa drunk and without a driver's license with her friend Gregor during a nightly vehicle inspection. In order to prevent a complaint, Rosa seduces Hannes. Gregor is a witness to it all. Hannes lets the two of them drive on, and that same night Rosa dies in a car accident. Gregor then lies in a coma and becomes a ticking time bomb for Bucher. Rosa's half-brother Sebastian tries fanatically to uncover the background of her death and the more Hannes tries to cover up everything, the more he comes under pressure. While the noose around his neck is tightening, Hannes encounters the full handling of the corrupt machinations of the Hartmann clan.

An Austrian late-night talk show, hosted by Sterman & Grissemann.

Nicholas Ofczarek and Robert Palfrader show BÖsterreich in a mixture of satire, grotesque and sketch comedy. They go on a sightseeing tour in the emotional backyards and abyssal cellar alleys of an "island of the blessed" in the heart of Europe. Sarcastic everyday situations full of black humor - relentlessly honest. The individual little stories are linked, one of the protagonists leads into the next scene. Ofczarek and Palfrader slip into partially recurring, sometimes unique roles.

The series takes place in the 16th district of Vienna, Ottakring. The focus is on the often tough everyday work of Austrian police officers, the realistic representation of criminal cases, but also the private life of those involved. In many cases, the problems are caused by the fact that Vienna is a particularly highly multicultural city, in which people from a wide variety of countries meet with value systems that sometimes differ considerably from one another.

People die, often there are no descendants, no relatives, no will. But before the remaining values go to the state, it has to ensure that there are actually no beneficiaries. In this case there is Paul Schwarz and the inheritance office. Paul penetrates deeply into the life stories of deceased people, rummaging through their past, their dreams, their loved ones, their hopes, their promises, their sins. An exciting and often very lucrative work that Paul and his colleague Julia Marquart always revolves around the trinity of money, love and death.

Revolves around Mario Hubinger, who tries to re-establish his father's restaurant and his family and employees.

"Alltagsgeschichten" portrays Austrians sensitively and with subtle humor in a documentary series - whether in Vienna-Meidling, on the subway or in the bathroom. Spira's "everyday story" has long been a cult. The protagonists of the programs are the so-called little people, whose stories the director tells in her films and whose living spaces she presents. Elizabeth T. Spira's films are also about the "Austrian soul", the psychological, social and historically grown state of mind of the Austrians. Here tragedy and comedy are often close together, sometimes they are congruent. "Alltagsgeschichten" briefly outlines a place or a social phenomenon through subjective expressions of opinion, personal memories and stories of people.

An Austrian comedy quiz show in which a team of five prominent cabaret artists try to answer curious questions or explain unusual terms or objects, whereby the actual, correct answer to the question is considered to be of secondary importance and the main focus answers that are as entertaining as possible.

A Spin-Off of "Kommissar Rex", this show is about Rex' former colleague Stockinger investigating strange murders in the Salzburger Land.

Investigative, committed and close to people. It provides insights into foreign milieus, unusual life stories or social developments, but also into court cases, legal curiosities and legal gray areas.

Echt fett is an Austrian hidden camera television series. As in Just for Laughs: Gags and Trigger Happy TV, it shows clips of how unsuspecting subjects are brought into unusual situations by actors while being filmed with a hidden camera. A typical clip is filmed on the streets, or in a shopping mall. The comedic situations produced by the actors and the reactions of the unknowingly fooled are to entertain viewers. It was broadcast between 2003 and 2007.

The justice-loving (and first-name-less) Viennese detective superintendent Trautmann solves his cases in an unconventional way and likes to rub influential authorities the wrong way.

The Vienna New Year's Concert (Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker) is an annual concert of classical music performed by the Vienna Philharmonic on the morning of New Year's Day in Vienna, Austria. The concert occurs at the Musikverein at 11:15. The orchestra performs the same concert programme on 30 December, 31 December, and 1 January but only the last concert is regularly broadcast on radio and television.

Dr Leo Benedikt is a forensic psychologist. He deals with what goes on in the minds of mentally abnormal lawbreakers. It doesn't matter whether Cara Horvath calls him in as an expert for the police, or whether someone asks him for help in a private case: Leo knows that every crime starts in the psyche - and therefore can only be solved there. As he investigates a series of mysterious suicides, he stumbles across the mysterious pharmaceutical company Janus - and is stunned to discover what is actually behind the suicides.

Science Busters is an Austrian science oriented comedy boy group consisting of Univ.-Prof. Heinz Oberhummer, Prof. Werner Gruber and comedian Martin Puntigam. The show features scientific questions with particular emphasis on physical phenomena, which are explained in a simple and entertaining way.