The attorneys movie purchased by ARD

ARD purchased on RTL rummage

Thursday, 04.09.2008,

ARD / RTL / Marion MehdenFür of the ARD's enough: RTL "attorneys" sold to the First

This product has made TV history: After a series set the RTL series "The Practice" with Kai Wiesinger worse off because of quotas. ARD has now bought the series.

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"The attorneys" will be broadcast from 20 October in the First, the ARD in Munich, said on Thursday. The eight episodes each run in prime time at 20.15 clock. According to a spokesman, it is the first time that ARD is not one has bought broadcast program of another transmitter.

In the RTL-order scripted series, in January when the first episode (Thursday, 21.15 clock) has a market share of 10.7 percent in the key demographic of 14 - to 49-year-olds. She was so far below the noisy channel in this time slot for RTL usual values. The station stopped broadcasting ado. RTL-fi boss Barbara Thielen said: ". The quality of the 'attorneys' we have always felt" Even if the series had not been accepted by the RTL viewers, they've more than earned, yet to be aired.

Continued uncertainty

ARD program director Guenter Struve said: "If the opportunity arises to acquire a well-made German series as 'The attorneys', then you should take advantage of it." The station had come with RTL Managing Director Anke Schäferkordt to a "portable agreement ". Struve's successor in autumn, Volker Herres, said: "I am convinced that our audience will reward this series with the response that they deserve, their makers and protagonists."

The date on which "the attorneys" will continue to run in the ARD, ARD, according to the speaker still not occupied. Whether the eight-part series will be continued, still wide open, he added.

Not work for nothing

The focus of the series are the "five courageous attorneys' Sebastian Britten (Kai Wiesinger), Marita Blum (Julia Bremermann), Lothar Franzen (Alexander Held), Dilek Genc (Carolina Vera) and Thomas Welka (Johann von Bülow), which work in a Hamburg law firm . Directors were Züli Aladag, Alexandre Miguel and Katinka Feistl. Wiesinger said he was very happy about this development and that the audience this "great series" could now see in the ARD. Thus the work of the team and the "great colleagues" was not in vain.

The actor had criticized the abrupt end of the series on RTL that time sharp. The series was not a flop, because the station had ever given her any chance he had said in an interview. He complained that the series was not as advertised, which it would be to start a big night series. In addition, the space program was not well chosen. Wiesinger for it was the first series starring role on television.