Yachts, Murder and Vampires: Disney+ Unveils German Originals Slate
'City of Blood,' a series about vampires in Berlin, based on the German graphic novel 'Berlinoir,' is one of the Disney+ original commissions
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After outlining its European drama plans at Series Mania earlier this week, Disney+, at an event in Munich on Thursday, quietly unveiled its originals slate for Germany, Europe’s biggest TV territory.
The new lineup runs the gambit from reality soap — Yacht Deals Monaco, a competition show involving would-be ship sellers trying to land a job with a top yacht broker on the Côte d’Azur — to supernatural thriller City of Blood, adapted from Reinhard Kleist and Tobias O. Meißner’s graphic novel Berlinoir, set in an alternative Berlin run by immortal vampires, to the opulent Austrian period drama Vienna Game.
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Yacht Deals Monaco drops on Disney+ in August. City of Blood, featuring up-and-comers Lea Drinda and Soma Pysall alongside German stars Lars Eidinger and Jördis Triebel, will premiere on Disney+ on Sept. 16. Vienna Game will premiere in November.
Disney+ also announced a new young adult series, Westwell, based on the books by German author Lena Kiefer, and Monster (working title), a miniseries based on Nele Neuhaus’ crime novel of the same name, which the streamer will produce in collaboration with ZDF. Filming on Monster, being produced by W&B Television, began in mid-January and is scheduled to launch on Disney+ in 2027. The New York-set Westwell will be produced in cooperation with Warner Bros ITVP Germany. All the shows will be labeled as Hulu Originals for Disney+.
The range of genres is par for the course for Disney+ in Germany, which in the past has taken a broad-based approach to its local originals here. Commissioned shows have included the miniseries Sam – A Saxon, the true story of the the first Black police officer in East Germany; Call My Agent Berlin, a German spin-off of the hit French industry satire show; the supernatural fantasy drama Pauline, about a teen who gets pregnant after a one-night stand with the literal son of Satan; and historical drama The Interpreter of Silence, about the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt in 1963.
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