The two camerawomen Anne Bolick and Katharina Bühler win the DAfFNE of the “German Academy for Film and Television” for Best Picture Design in OH HELL 2.
“The winner of the EISVOGEL 2025 in the main category is the television production “Forever Pool Party”. In this ZDF commissioned production, good friends Filmproduktions GmbH relied on consistent sustainable solutions in many relevant aspects. […] The competition jury was particularly impressed by the mobility concept at the central filming location in the small town of Forst in Brandenburg.”
“‘Oh Hell’ is not a comedy that makes viewers laugh out loud. Rather, the subtle, thought-provoking humour of the series is likely to get the audience’s laughter stuck in their throats at times, which is even smarter and funnier.”
“5.63 million viewers chose the ‘Irland-Krimi: Gnadentod’, which of course has another convincing viewing argument on its green side with Désirée Nosbusch as a criminal psychologist. An excellent 25.1 percent market share was thus achieved for the production (…).”
The ZDF comedy “Forever Freibad” premieres at the Hamburg Film Festival in September in the TELEVISIONS category and is therefore also nominated for the Hamburg Producer Award 2024.
The good friends production OH HELL 2 has been nominated for the Quotenmeter Television Award in the categories “Best Leading Actress” (Mala Emde), “Best Supporting Actress” (Salka Weber), “Best Title Music” and “Best Main Title/On-Air Design”. Voting is open until 01.09.2024.
We are grateful that the good friends production “The Fear” has been nominated for the Jupiter Award 2025 in the category “Best Film (TV & Streaming) National”. Voting is still open online until July 31, 2024.
“Last evening “Der Kommissar und die Angst” reached 5.84 million viewers in the well-established good friends production, resulting in an excellent 23.2 percent market share. The gap to the next non-news program was more than 2.5 million viewers!”
On Monday, April 29, the good friends production “Der Kommissar und die Angst” will be broadcast on ZDF at 8:15 pm. The crime thriller will be available in the ZDFmediathek from April 20.
“A game with fear”: Meike Droste reveals in an interview with Quotenmeter what fascinates her about “The Fear” and the entire series.
In February, the production “Forever Freibad” was honored with the Fair Film Award 2024. Producer Ursula Pfriem and director Laura Fischer were now guests on the Indiefilmtalk podcast and talked about the art of fair filmmaking.
OH HELL 2 will be screened on Sunday (14.04.) at 13:30h followed by a Q&A at the “achtung berlin Filmfestival” at Babylon Berlin Mitte. In addition, our camera duo Katharina Bühler and Anne Bolick will be on the panel “Film talks / a look behind the camera” and Kaya Kürten and Christian Schäfer on the panel “Oh, that was made? / Production Design & Costume Design Panel”.
“In OH HELL, Mala Emde plays Helene, a completely crazy woman in her mid-twenties who stumbles from one disaster to another, for example when she tries to show her affection for a man. It’s so funny that we can’t get enough of her.”
“The new season also offers a veritable firework display of clever ideas and pointed, absurdly funny dialogs that unerringly satirize the zeitgeist.”
radioeins spoke to Sarah Blaßkiewitz about “Oh Hell”. The director talks about how she fell in love with the world of Helene, how well thought out Johannes Boss’ scripts are and also what her personal future might look like.
Johannes Boss and Sarah Blaßkiewitz “hold up a mirror to the zeitgeist in a very entertaining way.”
OH HELL is “… one of the most unusual comedy formats ever created in Germany.”
As of today, the second season of OH HELL is available in the MagentaTV media library. It will be available on WarnerTV Comedy and max from fall 2024.
In cooperation with good friends, author and showrunner Johannes Boss (e.g. “Oh Hell”) founds his own production company, which also includes the newly created “Johannes Boss Storytelling Academy”.
The good friends production „Forever Freibad” has won the Fair Film Award, which recognizes the fairness of film productions. The production was rated with a dream average score of 1.19 by filmmakers.
The good friends production “The Hunted” has been nominated for the Jupiter Award in the category “Best Film (TV & Streaming) National”. Voting is open online until February 29, 2024.