Another slightly belated confirmation of one of our pet peeves about the world's most bloated and dismal "public" television system?
A couple of days back, a brief article in the German press made TheEditor laugh (for the record, that was the second time in one week, eerie).
This one was about the distaste of members of the German medical professions for German TV medical series and the respect of these very same professionals for U.S. series like "House".
To the K-Landnews TheEditor, the article confirms the belief that most of German TV is firmly stuck in the 1950s or 1960s. There may be the odd exception, but the opinion still holds. German "doctor shows" have next to no medical content and what medical content there is is dodgy, the rest is romance and big smiles of white coated happy people.
The kind of thorough expert advice that goes into many U.S. TV series is not easily embraced by German TV.
Why?
If I wanted to be a doctor, I'd have attended medical school?
To us, it is yet another aspect of a "box system". A mainstream culture that puts you in a box around the time you leave school and tries to keep you there.
Sure, there have been small intentional changes, for instance, an opening up of some of the craftsmen jobs because of EU law changes. But old, desperate structures defend themselves viciously, look around in your own country, and you can find examples.
Hollywood, listen up! Ahm, oh, you already know, sorry.
Well researched TV with guts (including those spilled) is what you do well. And we are aware that there are US shows as crappy as German standard TV, but now that you've got what amounts to a blanket endorsement by German physicians and surgeons, make the most out of it.
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