After outlining its European drama plans at Series Mania earlier this week, Disney+, at an event in Munich on Thursday, quietly revealed its original slate for Germany, Europe’s largest TV region.
The new lineup runs the gambit of the reality soap – Monaco yacht offersa competition show featuring would-be ship sellers trying to get a job with one of the top yacht brokers on the Côte d’Azur – to a supernatural thriller City of bloodadapted from the graphic novel by Reinhard Kleist and Tobias Meissner Berlinoirset in an alternate Berlin run by immortal vampires, turns to a sumptuous Austrian drama Vienna game.
Monaco yacht offers It drops on Disney+ in August. blood city, Starring rising stars Lea Drenda and Soma Baisal alongside German stars Lars Edinger and Jordis Triebel, it will premiere on Disney+ on September 16. Vienna game It will premiere in November.
Disney+ also announced a new young adult series, Westwellbased on the books of German writer Lena Kiefer, and A monster (working title), a miniseries based on the crime novel of the same name by Nellie Newhouse, which will be produced by the broadcaster in collaboration with ZDF. Photography on monster, Produced by W&B Television, it began production in mid-January and is scheduled to launch on Disney+ in 2027. Westwell It will be produced in collaboration with Warner Bros ITVP Germany. All shows will be labeled as Hulu Originals for Disney+.
The range of genres is par for the course for Disney+ in Germany, which in the past has taken a broad approach to its local originals here. Shows that were commissioned included the miniseries Sam – SaxonThe true story of East Germany’s first black police officer; Contact my Berlin agenta German spin-off of the satirical presentation of French industry; Supernatural fantasy drama Paulineabout a teenager who becomes pregnant after a one-night stand with the real son of Satan; And historical drama Interpreter of silenceAbout the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt in 1963.
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