EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has boarded the fast-paced German medical drama KRANK Berlin.
Apple has joined ZDFneo on the eight-part collection, which is from Violet Footage and Actual Movie Berlin and co-created by former British emergency room doctor turned screenwriter Samuel Jefferson and Brimstone and Glory maker Viktor Jakovleski. Apple will take world rights, with pubcaster ZDF exhibiting it in Germany.
The present stars Haley Louise Jones, who lately appeared in Netflix Germany breakout collection Pricey Little one. She performs Dr. Parker, a younger medic managing a a chaotic emergency room within the hardest and most overcrowded hospital in Berlin whereas in search of a recent begin after her personal life implodes in Munich.
Attempting to implement obligatory reforms, she meets resistance from the underpaid, poorly outfitted and chronically fatigued hospital employees who solely survive with an indispensable dose of black humor. However within the face of an more and more cruel healthcare system, the battered group should put apart their variations and pull collectively to avoid wasting lives.
Slavko Popadić (Crooks) stars with Jones, alongside an ensemble solid together with Şafak Şengül (Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush), Aram Tafreshian (Canines of Berlin), Samirah Breuer (The Gryphon), Bernhard Schütz (Barbarians) and Peter Lohmeyer (I Don’t Work Right here).
Violet Footage’ Alexis von Wittgenstein (Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood) and Actual Movie’s Henning Kamm (Unorthodox) are government producers. Alex Schaad (Pores and skin Deep) and Fabian Möhrke (Eichwald MdB) are the administrators. Worldwide rights have been dealt with by Beta Movie.
The collection was one of many final Sky Deutschland ordered earlier than it pulled out of authentic scripted commissioning nearly a yr in the past. Dozens of initiatives then returned to the market, with ZDFneo leaping on KRANK Berlin. Capturing wrapped in East Berlin late final yr.
The collection is Apple’s newest funding within the German TV market. Thus far, it has ordered one collection outright, UFA Fiction’s comedy The place’s Wanda?, and boarded sci-fi epic Constellation, which was made by Turbine Studios Germany and Haut et Courtroom from France with a world solid. We perceive the streamer has been in improvement on a handful of different initiatives.