RTL launches new daily soap
Starting this fall, RTL plans to take on the competition from Sat.1"s hit telenovela "Verliebt in Berlin" with its new series "Alles was zählt.".
RTL is restructuring its early evening program for the autumn, cutting out old habits and launching a new series to compete with the successful Sat.1 telenovela "Verliebt in Berlin". "Balko" and "Die Wache" will be canceled, as was announced at the RTL Premiere Conference, according to Welt.de. The new show is called "Alles was zählt". Although it is not called a telenovela, it has all the right ingredients: The lead actress Tanja Szewczenko is to embody a young woman with goals and dreams who hasn't quite found herself yet. RTL apparently still believes in the telenovela boom, the end of which is already being heralded on other channels. "Alles was zählt" airs daily from 7.05 pm, ten minutes earlier than "Verliebt in Berlin". RTL will also be making some changes to the evening before: In future, an information block will begin at 6.00 pm with the magazine "Explosiv" (previously 7.05 pm), the tabloid magazine "Exklusiv", which will retain its 6.30 pm slot, and the news program "RTL Aktuell" at 6.45 pm.
