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<blockquote data-quote="Marika" data-source="post: 69826" data-attributes="member: 721">In Germany, the Bold and the Beautiful still had good ratings when ZDF cancelled the show in 2011. They always had ~ 1 million viewers. However, ZDF wanted to restructure their program and B&amp;B just didn&#039;t fit in anymore.But yes, we also have our own soaps, and they are not shown during daytime, but in early primetime. Over the years, various soaps have come and gone, but 3 shows remained, and they&#039;re shown at 5.30 pm (Unter uns), 7 pm (Alles was zählt) and 7.40 pm (Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten), respectively. They&#039;re still going strong as of today, and all three have their own identity: UU takes place in an apartment house where all the protagonists live, AWZ features a big company and sports as its main theme, and GZSZ is about a group of people living in a district in Berlin. Over the years, production values have improved so much that they&#039;re pretty much comparable to any primetime show.I always found American daytime soaps to be very static. People just stand around and talk the same dialogue for ages, filled with overdramatic long pauses and stares. At least that was my impression from watching B&amp;B and Y&amp;R.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marika, post: 69826, member: 721"] In Germany, the Bold and the Beautiful still had good ratings when ZDF cancelled the show in 2011. They always had ~ 1 million viewers. However, ZDF wanted to restructure their program and B&B just didn't fit in anymore. But yes, we also have our own soaps, and they are not shown during daytime, but in early primetime. Over the years, various soaps have come and gone, but 3 shows remained, and they're shown at 5.30 pm ([I]Unter uns[/I]), 7 pm ([I]Alles was zählt[/I]) and 7.40 pm ([I]Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten[/I]), respectively. They're still going strong as of today, and all three have their own identity: UU takes place in an apartment house where all the protagonists live, AWZ features a big company and sports as its main theme, and GZSZ is about a group of people living in a district in Berlin. Over the years, production values have improved so much that they're pretty much comparable to any primetime show. I always found American daytime soaps to be very static. People just stand around and talk the same dialogue for ages, filled with overdramatic long pauses and stares. At least that was my impression from watching B&B and Y&R. [/QUOTE]

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