TVLab

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Television broadcast
German title TVLab - Look what you want!
Original title TVLab, 3Lab
Country of production Germany
Year (s) 2011-2015
Production
company		 Encanto , Phoenix Film
length 10-35 minutes
Episodes 30 (+8 European contributions, 2 best-of editions, 3 award ceremonies and 13 online broadcasts) in 5 seasons
Broadcasting
cycle		 usually for a week each year
genre Innovation , competition
Moderation changing annually:
First broadcast August 27, 2011 on ZDFneo

The TVLab (since 2015 3Lab , in Germany TVLab - look what you want! ) Is a television program that was first broadcast by Nederland 3 in 2009 and has been broadcast annually since 2011 as part of a joint action by the European Broadcasting Union across Europe in the Netherlands , in Germany ( ZDFneo ), Belgium ( VRT ) and Slovenia ( RTV ). The TVLab is an experimental laboratory for new, experimental and innovative television programs. For a week, a new TV idea is shown every evening, which viewers can vote on online. The winning show then goes into season production.

Concept in Germany

As part of the TVLab, producers are called upon to submit broadcast concepts. There are no content restrictions. An editorial jury from ZDFneo then selects the best concepts. During the first few years of the TVLab week on ZDFneo, the contributions produced were shown every evening in prime time and presented by a moderator. The structure of the program and the presentation of the contributions changed several times after 2013.

As a rule, viewers can vote online for seven days on which format should then go into a season production. In addition to voting, the TVLab module offered online information about the TVLab posts, a blog and video material as well as "social media" offers with comment functions via microsite , Twitter and Facebook . After the end of the voting, in contrast to the TV reports, the result is typically announced live in an online broadcast, some of which is then repeated on TV. It was only broadcast directly on television in 2011.

ZDFneo wants to search for new ideas and talents with the TVLab and live up to its claim as an innovation and experimentation platform.

Shipments in Germany

TVLab 2011

ZDFneo broadcast the first TVLab from August 27 to September 3, 2011. The programs were moderated by Joachim Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf , with the following ten pilot films to choose from:

  • German Angst - The correct way to deal with ... (Comedy-Magazin)
  • How cool is that ?! (Magazine)
  • neoXplorer (VJ travel magazine)
  • Cuddled up! The Puppen-WG (Puppen-Sitcom)
  • Sharp Dogs (crime comedy, series)
  • Moviacs (film magazine)
  • Bambule (big city magazine with Sarah Kuttner )
  • Bullshit (comedy)
  • Teddy's Show (Comedy Show)
  • Love at Speed (Dating Show)

Within the series, the formats Red Sonja (fictional series), Elements - Freddy Nock (portrait series), Truman (game show), Fuck the Parents (masquerade docusoap) and Collapsus (docu-fiction) of the European partner TVLabs sent that didn't stand to vote.

After the vote from August 27th to September 2nd, comedian Tedros “Teddy” Teclebrhan with “Teddy's Show” emerged as the winner of the first TVLab in the results show broadcast on TV on September 3, 2011, thanks to the video integration test on YouTube .

The Berliner Zeitung (BZ) wrote about the winner: “Unfortunately, it was the most unoriginal show in the competition that won through. Because what 'Teddy' showed in his live show in front of an audience beyond his interspersed video clips was so clumsy that he would not have a chance on any cabaret. ”The BZ also criticized the fact that“ the candidates did not have the same chances ” because "both Teddy and his fans" called on YouTube to "vote for the 'Teddy Show'". The program was broadcast on ZDFneo from May to July 2012.

Due to the positive response, three other formats from the TVLab were put into production:

  • Moviacs (November and December 2011, Tuesdays at 9.45 p.m.)
  • Bambule (March 2012 to December 2013 in 4 seasons, Thursdays at 9.45 p.m.)
  • German Angst (August to September 2012, Thursdays at 11 p.m.)

The first TVLab saw a total of 1.4 million viewers, with 17,000 voters participating. The associated Internet pages were accessed 979,000 times. The ZDF had also planned a TVLab for its program, but ultimately didn't realize it.

TVLab 2012

ZDFneo broadcast the second TVLab from August 25 to September 1, 2012. The programs were moderated by Palina Rojinski , with the following seven pilot films to choose from:

The series also broadcast the formats Wild Boar (sketch show), Taming of the shrew (report) and Students without cash (report) from the European partner TVLabs, which were not put to the vote.

The winner of the second TVLab was the cartoon series “German Meat” from August 25th to 31st, as Rojinski announced in an online broadcast on September 1st. The program was broadcast from January 2014. ZDFneo has put two other formats from the TVLab into production:

  • Hot & Greasy! (July 2013 to June 2014 in 2 seasons, Thursdays at 10:15 p.m.)
  • Beef Buddies (previously "Beef Brothers", August 2013 to September 2014 in 2 seasons, Thursdays at 9 p.m.)

TVLab 2013

From August 22 to August 27, 2013, from 9:45 pm, ZDFneo broadcast the TVLab 2013. The programs were moderated by Sarah Kuttner , who in 2011 had realized a TVLab format herself with Bambule , with the following seven pilot films to choose from :

  • About Men - The magazine for real men (magazine with Milton Welsh )
  • Nobody intends to open an airport (Mockumentary)
  • These Kaminskis - We'll lower you! (Documentary sitcom)
  • Hi-Hi-History! - Yesterday's Spartan TV (comedy clip show and winner of the Viewers Contest 2012)
  • The judge in you - with Michel Friedman (Justice Docutainment)
  • Tohuwabohu (family entertainment)
  • The Blender (Reality Comedy Show)

In the third TVLab, after the vote from August 22nd to 28th, the show "Tohuwabohu" by the editors Petra Verschfeld and Verena Scheidecker won, in which two celebrities (in the pilot film Ross Antony and Jeanette Biedermann ) have to play against each other and have to entertain children for two days who then select the winner. The winning format was broadcast again on August 29th. From August of the following year four episodes were broadcast.

TVLab 2014

The TVLab 2014 was only broadcast in three formats on a single day, August 28, 2014, from 9.45 p.m. after the poor success of previous years and the winning programs that critics regarded as not particularly inventive. There were three serial pilots running one behind the other without moderation:

The fourth TVLab, after the voting phase from August 22nd to 29th, won the series Blockbustaz , in which Eko Fresh as an unemployed would-be rapper Sol is thrown out of the door by his mother at the age of 30 and with his girlfriend Jessica and his buddy Hardy lives through everyday life. Originally planned for 2015, six episodes were not broadcast until March 2016. In July 2016, the shooting of another season was announced.

TVLab 2015

At the TVLab 2015, the creation process was accompanied online. Moderator William Cohn put four teams of YouTubers, social media personalities, actors, musicians and authors online on November 9, 2015 with the task “Test of courage! For a handful ... ”, which the teams should discuss with their fans and subscribers about how to manage it, while producing a four- to eight-minute video clip for a week by November 15th. Cohn himself showed a "Daily Cohn" summary of the previous processes online. From November 17 to 20, the following short articles were shown at 8:05 p.m., on November 19, all of them in a row from 0:00 a.m.:

  • Blue Whale Challenge (Team Drama Dachshund )
  • Dare to ... For a handful of weirdos (Team Stars from the Tube aka The Web Isn't Enough #Dwing )
  • Glitch (Team Three And A Half Girls )
  • Withdrawn voluntarily because of the terrorist attacks in Paris (Team It's a lab )

The vote on the fifth TVLab, which ran from November 16 to 22, 2015, was won by the clip “Dare to ... For a handful of weirdos”, as Cohn announced in a video on November 23. In their clip, the protagonists found a start-up company that is supposed to help discouraged weddings to get married, but are only confronted with nuts. This should result in a comedy series in 2016, but it was postponed to 2017.

Finally, between March 30 and April 13, 2017, ZDFneo broadcast the series neoManiacs on Thursdays at 11 p.m. with the winners Lars Fricke , Alexander Böhm , Petra Meyer and Michael Schulte , in which the unsuccessful actor Lars went to a mental hospital out of boredom can be instructed and on the crazy director of the institution Dr. Mankow hits, whereupon Lars has to force his escape. The show should take place on the border between reality and madness. The weekly making-of episodes available on YouTube in the run-up to the broadcast under the title Scripted Surreality also pursued this goal on the set of the series.

TVLab 2017

After a one-year break due to a lack of space in the program plan, the TVLab should return to the web format in 2017. In October 2017, however, ZDFneo officially announced that there would be no further TVLab.

criticism

The reviews of the first season praised the courage to involve viewers directly, but warned that this would not necessarily result in the best format going into production. Julian Miller stated in his comment onquotemeter.de : “ The ZDF dares something. [...] «TV Lab» is intended to bring a breath of fresh air to the public television landscape and give formats a chance that originate from Germany and have not been bought from abroad. “But at the end he pointed out:“ We have it in our own hands and are allowed to play program makers - but it's also our fault if we don't get that done. "

Torsten Wahl says in his column in the Frankfurter Rundschau :

“ When broadcasters don't know exactly how a format will be received, they like to push the decision on to the audience. […] Whether the jury's vote will actually filter out the best format seems questionable at the moment. [...] Whoever can activate his fans as judges most cleverly will probably win. Youtube hero Tedros Teclebrhan , for example, has good opportunities to do so , [...] whose broadcast on the Internet would probably be better off. "

Hannah Pilarczyk stated on Spiegel Online : “ You can finally decide for yourself what is on TV - ZDFneo is now fulfilling this wish. [...] A model that could soon set an example. "In particular, she emphasized the possibility of this program for ZDFneo to attract viewers:" For Neo, the TVLab comes at the best time, because the station needs more attention. “ZDFneo can solve its“ problem ”in such a way that“ the channel has still not produced an independent format that gives it an unmistakable profile. "

The reviews of the second season were mostly more negative, so Anna Klöpper judged in her comment in the taz : “ At this year's 'TVLab' […] the makers unfortunately seemed to have lost their sense of formats with potential. "After criticizing the lack of creativity of the individual formats, she comes to the conclusion:" In the end, even ZDFneo seemed to have lost interest in the event [.] "

Since no format from the previous seasons - except Bambule - lasted for more than a few episodes and the TVLab 2014 was limited to just one day, Peer Schader wished in his column at DWDL.de " [d] em winner [...], that he still gets the curve, and above all does not have to run at a strange non-broadcast time in the program. "He recommended to the broadcaster that shrunk the format in such a way:" With the claim that ZDFneo had at the start [...], there should actually be a permanent trial week. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About TV Lab. In: Internet Archive . NPO TV Programmering, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Michael Brandes: "TVLab" goes into the second round in summer. In: TV wish list . March 20, 2012, accessed October 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ "TVLab - Look what you want" starts on Saturday in ZDFneo / TV viewers decide on new formats. In: current news . ZDF , August 24, 2011, accessed on October 11, 2017 .
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  5. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier: On TV: "TV Lab": Do what you want. In: FAZ . August 26, 2011, accessed October 11, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b "TVLab - Look what you want" ZDFneo viewers have the choice: show, comedy, series or magazine. In: current news . ZDF , August 15, 2011, accessed on February 22, 2017 .
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  8. ↑ Torsten Wahl: At the TVLab on ZDFneo, the most unoriginal contribution wins thanks to YouTube on television. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 5, 2011, accessed October 11, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Comedy meets late night show “TVLab” winner “Teddy's Show” goes into series on ZDFneo. In: current news . ZDF , April 30, 2012, accessed October 12, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Curtain up for “Moviacs” / film and entertainment magazine from ZDFneo “TVLab” starts with four episodes. In: current news . ZDF , November 18, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2017 .
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  14. ↑ "Beef Buddies" - Cooking for real men. In: Internet Archive . Endemol , 2013, accessed October 12, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Frederic Servatius: “TV-Lab” 2013: Mockumentary, men's magazine and children's entertainment. In : quotemeter.de . July 15, 2013, accessed February 23, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Uwe Mantel: Winner of the “Viewers Contest” ZDFneo lets historical personalities talk. In: DWDL.de . December 11, 2012, accessed October 12, 2017 .
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  18. ↑ a b Peer Schader: Prejudice of the week: Has ZDFneo shrunk its "TVLab" meaninglessly? In: DWDL.de . August 23, 2014, accessed October 12, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Dennis Weber: TV Lab 2014: Eko Fresh made the race. In : quotemeter.de . August 29, 2014, accessed February 23, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Jacqueline Dammers: “Blockbustaz” are back: Eko Fresh gets a permanent place on ZDFneo. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . March 21, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  21. ↑ ZDFneo shoots the second “Blockbustaz” season with Eko Fresh. In: Berliner Morgenpost . July 12, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Christina Betke: The TVLab 2015 in ZDFneo online and with a new concept. In: ZDF . October 2, 2015, accessed February 23, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Frederic Servatius: TV Lab: If so, please do the right thing. In : quotemeter.de . Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  24. ^ "TVLab" 2015 in ZDFneo: The winning team has been determined. In: current news . ZDFneo , November 23, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2017 .
  25. ↑ a b Timo Niemeier: ZDFneo: “TVLab” pauses and comes back in 2017. In: DWDL.de . October 9, 2016, accessed February 23, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: "neoManiacs": Anarchic ZDFneo sketch comedy with TVLab winners from today. In: TV wish list . March 30, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Timo Niemeier: Final line: ZDFneo finally buries its "TVLab". In: DWDL.de . October 11, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Julian Miller: We've Got the Power. In : quotemeter.de . August 19, 2011, accessed October 11, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Torsten Wahl: Determine the TV program: Just roll around in the mud. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . August 27, 2011, accessed October 11, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: TV experiment on ZDFneo: Be the broadcaster for a week! In: Spiegel Online . November 26, 2011, accessed October 11, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Anna Klöpper: Co-determination at ZDFneo: Failed laboratory experiment. In: taz . September 5, 2012, accessed October 11, 2017 .