BERLIN (AFP) -- Cult crime show “Tatort” may be almost unknown outside Germany but the popular and realistic police series is about to celebrate its 1,000th episode.The program has kept millions of German viewers engrossed since 1970, with families breaking off from dinner at 8:15 pm every Sunday and meeting friends at pubs to catch the latest episode of Germany’s most popular detective show.At a time when Netflix and Amazon Prime are eroding the business of traditional television broadcasters,

CANNES, France (AFP) - “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh said Sunday he is adapting his acclaimed novel “Crime” for television, the first time one of the controversial Scottish writer's books will make the leap to the small screen.The story of a cocaine-snorting alcoholic Edinburgh detective who runs into even more trouble when he goes on vacation to Florida is widely regarded as Welsh’s best since “Trainspotting,” with the Guardian calling it a “triumph.”Having had his world turned upside dow

CANNES, France (AFP) - Coral reefs may be dying off at an alarming rate and pollution and overfishing emptying the seas. But fear not. Help is at hand in the form of a new wave of cartoon superheroes determined to save the oceans.While Disney blockbusters “Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory” have been attacked for sparking a spike in the poaching of tropical fish, Muppets creators the Jim Henson Company said Sunday that their new animated children's series “Splash and Bubbles” would help mobilize a

PARIS (AFP) -- American reality TV star Kim Kardashian has lodged a formal complaint in France after she was filmed at her luxury Paris apartment following a robbery by gunmen, her lawyers said Thursday.Kardashian is also filing a civil party petition as the victim of “a serious assault and a jewelry theft” on Oct. 3 after French prosecutors formally opened an investigation.The statement from her lawyers said the video was made “without her consent or the police’s and while the police were inves

Over the past 10 years, tvN has slowly emerged as one of the best content creators in South Korea, producing numerous hits with viewership unseen for a cable channel.At a press conference Wednesday to mark the 10th anniversary of its opening, Lee Deok-jae, head of media content at tvN’s parent company CJ E&M, said, “We won’t settle for domestic success. We aim high to produce content that can sell in the global market.” The channel opened in October 2006 with the humble goal of surviving in a cr

The airing of the South Korean TV series “Saimdang, Memoir of Colors,” which stars Lee Young-Ae, has been postponed to early next year, according to TV sources. The SBS TV series was scheduled to simultaneously hit South Korea and China in late October. But the broadcast has been put off to January, as China has delayed its screening procedures for the show, possibly because of Seoul’s decision to deploy an anti-missile defense system on the Korean Peninsula, the sources said Tuesday. The drama

MOSCOW (Yonhap) -- A senior Ukrainian official said Tuesday his country wants South Korean satellite TV channels to fill in for blocked Russian ones, according to a news report.Ukraine blocked 77 Russian satellite TV channels over the past two years amid the worst-ever bilateral ties over the Crimea issue.Instead, dozens of new Ukrainian TV channels began services.“We don’t have enough. So we want Korean (TV satellite channels),” the Interfax news agency quoted Yuri Artemenko, the head of Ukrain