Lingopie, the new language learning platform, has licensed a range of content including award-winning titles from ZDF Enterprises for the US, Canada and the UK. The dozen German language series selected cover three genres: drama, unscripted and junior.
The SVOD service Lingopie, seeks out the best shows from around the world in its mission to transform the way people learn new languages. By acquiring top quality programming in its original language, they offer their viewers an entertaining and engaging immersive experience. The deal includes many titles that have aired on ZDF, Germany’s most-watched channel for nine consecutive years with a market share of 13.6% (2020), such as the Music Award winning and prestigious Grimme Award- nominated road trip documentary Filling Stations of Happiness (10 x 26’) and the junior movie The Wall Between Us (‘110), winner of the Humanitarian Award.
Ralf Rueckauer, VP ZDFE.unscripted, ZDF Enterprises, said: ‘Lingopie is a discerning customer having chosen a variety of excellent shows from our catalogue which German language students will thoroughly enjoy as they grapple with our mother tongue’.
‘We owe it to our viewers to offer them the best foreign language content so ZDF Enterprises was an obvious choice when it came to acquiring high end German programming’, added David Datny, Co-founder and CEO at Lingopie. ‘We hope this relationship will grow as we grow as a company and can provide our users with the high-quality content from their exclusive programming’.
Ottilie von Faber-Castell (2 x 90’) and SOKO Hamburg (29 x 45’) are the two dramas licensed to Lingopie TV. Unscripted titles included in the deal are the travelogue Weekend (23 x 15’), The Dog Whisperer (15 x 45’) and Eating out in… (28 x 30’), a series about Europe’s regional cuisines.
Six junior titles from ZDF Enterprises will be launched on Lingopie. The multi award-winning movie At Eye Level (1 x 98’) about an orphan in search of his father, has been snapped up along with the new opulent film adaptation of a children’s classic, Snow White and the Magic of the Dwarfs (1 x 90’). As well as the previously mentioned The Wall Between Us, young viewers will be entertained by Kick It! Great Football Heroes (26 x 7’), a mixture of live action and animation, the animated adventures of Knight Rusty (50 x 12’) and preschoolers favourite Coconut, The Little Dragon (104 x 12’).
