Returning to a dark past, “Dear Vivi” builds, in a carefully crafted structure, a picture of a family where, despite its luxury villa in a quiet Munich suburb, murder becomes a high probability. Growing up in a psychiatric ward where here father worked as a psychologist, as a portrait in Germany’s Welt notes, Scharf, whose Seven Dogs Film Produktion produced “Dear Vivi,” has a fine sense of how people enact their lives, constructing images of themselves far from reality.

“When I was as old as you I already had four deaths on my conscience,” he confesses slightly later. Written and produced by successful German TV writer Natalie Scharf, behind one of ZDF’s longest-running series, “Frühling,” (2010-23), “Dear Vivi” begins with Vivi, 16, limping down a street to a pharmacy and then collapsing in tears in a delayed reaction to discovering some hours before that her dad, Peter, has killed her mum.Ĭut to 16 hours earlier where a seemingly perfect family celebrates mum Anna’s 44th birthday over breakfast before the father returns home to discover his wife hiding some undisclosed secret in the kitchen and kills her, ending up in custody pending trial.

The series also scored record TikTok followers and fan edits: over 23K followers and half a million likes within three weeks of its launch. 9-11, “Dear Vivi’s” linear broadcast notched up an average of 5.6 million viewers for a 20% market, crowing it as making it the prime time winner on all three broadcast days. This makes the program the most-viewed series in the ZDFmediathek to date but also by far the most successful German streaming offer in the current year, ZDF Studios announced Tuesday at the beginning of Series Mania’s Forum, which runs March 21-23, taking in the centerpiece Co-Pro Pitching Sessions on Tuesday and the Lille Dialogues two days later.Īiring on three consecutive nights over Jan. 30, punching online almost 21 million views, or three million views per episode.

In Germany, “Dear Vivi” (“Gestern waren wir noch Kinder”) has set new online records, its seven episodes, which launched on ZDFmedaithek on Dec.

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