GERMAN TV….In the LA Times today, Alissa Rubin writes that Europeans don’t like American politics but do like American entertainment. The following passage from Reinhard Scolik, chief of programming for Austria’s largest broadcaster, caught my attention:
“In American programs, people have problems, serious problems. In ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ people are dying, it tells you that life will be very, very hard, but at the very end they get a little hope and there is a way to get through,” he said. “In German shows, which we also get on Austrian television, it is mostly a hopeless situation, it is too heavy.”
Wow. Are German TV shows really that bleak?
