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Netflix currently has two bundles of Doctor Who episodes available for streaming: the classic Doctor Who and the rebooted Doctor Who. Both will be unavailable in only a few days. The Science of Doctor Who documentary will still be available, which...is something, at least.
Official confirmation that both series collections of Doctor Who will be soon gone from Netflix is disappointing, considering that there have been false alarms in the past about the franchise being discontinued on the streaming service that were debunked. Netflix actually confirming that the TARDIS will soon be making its final streaming appearances is definitely a bummer.
As it happens, Netflix losing all eight seasons of the new Doctor Who almost feels like a loss of two different shows. The runs of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were handled by executive producer Russell T. Davies, who favored a more character-centric approach to the exploits of the Time Lord and his companions, whereas current showrunner Steven Moffat has brought a greater emphasis on timey-wimey shenanigans with the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors. Of course, with Moffat now stepping down as showrunner and handing the reins over to Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who may feel like yet another reboot in Season 10.
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Babylon Berlin is a German neo-noir television series. Created, written, and directed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Hendrik Handloegten, it is loosely based on novels by Volker Kutscher.
The series premiered on 13 October 2017 on Sky 1. The first release consisted of a continuous run of 16 episodes, with the first eight officially known as Season 1, and the second eight known as Season 2. Season 3 premiered in January 2020,[3] followed by Season 4 in October 2022.[4] In June 2023, the show was renewed for a fifth and final season with production expected to begin at the end of 2024.[5]
Netflix exclusively streamed seasons 1 through 3 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States until they were removed in February 2024. In April 2024, the first three seasons of the show began streaming on MHz Choice in the United States, with the fourth season added in June.[6][7][8]
The series is set in Berlin during the latter years of the Weimar Republic, beginning in 1929. It follows Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch), a police inspector on assignment from Cologne who is on a secret mission to dismantle an extortion ring, and Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries), police clerk by day, prostitute by night, who aspires to become a police inspector.[9]
The series was co-directed by Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloegten [de], and Achim von Borries, who also wrote the scripts. The 16 episodes of the first two seasons were adapted by Tykwer, von Borries and Handloegten from the novel Der nasse Fisch (The Wet Fish) (2008) by Volker Kutscher[11] and were filmed over eight months beginning in May 2016.
German public broadcaster ARD and pay TV channel Sky co-produced the series, a first time collaboration in German television.[citation needed] As part of the arrangement, Sky broadcast the series first, and ARD started broadcasts by free-to-air television on 30 September 2018. Netflix purchased rights for the United States, Canada, and Australia, where the series became available in 2018 with English dubbing and subtitles.[12]
The third season of Babylon Berlin was filmed over six months from late 2018 to May 2019.[14][15] At the 32nd European Film Awards in December 2019, showrunners Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten and Tom Tykwer stated that the third season was in post-production and that a fourth season was planned.[16]
The third season was developed loosely around the second novel in Volker Kutscher's trilogy The Silent Death. The showrunners chose to diverge from the source material to better address the social and political unrest during the time period as they felt that the Weimar Republic is often overlooked by both media and historical sources.[17] The third season is set in late 1929 around the Black Tuesday stock market crash and navigates the rise of the subversive Black Reichswehr and communist political groups as well as the advent of talkies.
In a January 2020 interview with Berliner Zeitung, actress Liv Lisa Fries said that production would likely begin on the fourth season in late 2020 or early 2021.[18] Planning and writing for the fourth season, based on the novel Goldstein, began in October 2020. Filming began in early 2021[19][20] and was completed in September 2021, with the production having shot for 129 days at Studio Babelsberg and at locations around Berlin. Season 4 is set in late 1930 and early 1931.[21] It premiered on 8 October 2022.[4]
Handloegten has stated that: "We decided to go on until 1933... if you call the show Babylon Berlin, it is about this special city in a very special time. And this special time, the Babylon times, the free and liberated times, just ended in 1933."[22] Von Borries has spoken along similar lines, saying:
We always said it was over in 1933. If there is a final season, it would be the first months after the so-called seizure of power before the Reichstag fire. The National Socialists had turned the country upside down so fundamentally that the Babylonian in Berlin was over. After that we don't want to go on.[23]
After Sky Deutschland decided to stop ordering scripted originals in June 2023, the producers of the show ARD Degeto, X Filme Creative Pool and Beta Film committed to developing a fifth season.[2] In a February 2024 interview, star Liv Lisa Fries said the fifth and final season is tentatively scheduled to film in late 2024.[24]
In June 2024, it was officially announced that the fifth and final season will be filmed in late 2024. It will consist of 8 episodes and will be based on the fifth novel in the series, The March Fallen. It will take place in February 1933, after the inauguration of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.[25] Handloegten, von Borries and Tykwer said in a press release that:
In the final season of Babylon Berlin, we put February 1933 under the magnifying glass: Rarely has a society been torn apart more radically in such a short period of time than Germany in this chaotic month. Not only Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter, but all our protagonists also must realize that they only have a few options left: Subordinate themselves, risk their lives in open opposition, retreat into inner emigration or flee into exile. However, this decisive month also opens the possibility of changing the course of history at the last second.[26]
At the time people did not realize how absolutely unstable this new construction of society which the Weimar Republic represented was. It interested us because the fragility of democracy has been put to the test quite profoundly in recent years... By 1929, new opportunities were arising. Women had more possibilities to take part in society, especially in the labour market as Berlin became crowded with new thinking, new art, theatre, music and journalistic writing.[27]
Nonetheless, Tykwer insisted that he and his co-directors were determined not to idealize the Weimar Republic: "People tend to forget that it was also a very rough era in German history. There was a lot of poverty, and people who had survived the war were suffering from a great deal of trauma."[27]
In the first season, communists, Soviets and especially Trotskyists play a prominent role (the Soviet ambassador to Germany from 1923 to 1930 was former Trotsky ally Nikolay Krestinsky). The show depicts what became known as Blutmai, violence between communist demonstrators and members of the Berlin Police in early May 1929,[28] and extra-legal paramilitary formations promoted by the German Army, known as the Black Reichswehr.[29] In the first season, the Soviet ambassador in Berlin, who appears to be a loyal Stalinist, is involved in the massacre of Trotskyists in the printing shop, who were buried in a mass grave outside the city. According to Nathaniel Flakin, this event never happened.[30] Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, on the other hand, is only mentioned in passing during the first two seasons of Babylon Berlin.[31]
Babelsberg Studio constructed a massive addition to its Metropolitan Backlot for the filming of the series and for future productions.[32] This permanent standing set is billed as one of the largest in Europe.[33] The set includes recreations of various Berlin neighbourhoods, from a range of economic classes. It also includes the large exterior of the night club Moka Efti.[34]
In addition, the series was filmed throughout Berlin and at other locations in the surrounding state of Brandenburg. Numerous scenes were filmed on Alexanderplatz in front of the historic Alexanderhaus [de]. The police headquarters, once located directly behind it, and other surrounding buildings, were destroyed in WWII, but were recreated with computer simulations. The Rotes Rathaus (Berlin City Hall) was used for most closeup scenes involving the exterior of the police headquarters, because their red brick appearance and architectural style are very similar. Interiors of the police headquarters lobby were filmed at the Rathaus Schneberg, including scenes with its paternoster elevator, while the elegant Ratskeller restaurant in the same building was used as the nearby caf Aschinger [de][35] in multiple scenes. Other interior scenes in the police headquarters were filmed in the historic Robert-Koch-Forum [de].
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