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Britain's 'The Office' still successful as German remake 'Stromberg'
A dismal open-plan office with neon-lights, paper stacks and telephones ringing non-stop is not the usual setting for a comedy series, and yet it has proved successful, as the British comedy 'The Office' can testify
web serie, business man, labour, tv series, culture, germany
Internet killed the TV star
In 1960s UK, there were 10.5 million television sets. There will be a predicted 74m by 2020. Welcome to an era where a converging consumer revolution dictates that at least 20% of the market will have internet powered TV sets in Europe, and where the first European three-dimension TV channel, Sky, went live in April. Television, a marker of post-war middle-class American affluence, has stayed central to peoples lives. Focus on whether that affluence has become an influence that the Europeans just can't shake via TV and web series
