ZDF Magazin Royale - Season 3

First aired: 9/3/2021 14 episodes

Episodes

1. How Wikipedia is Politically Influenced

Aired: 9/3/2021

What's on Wikipedia is considered "the truth." If you don't like that, you can let reality be changed where it's made: in the world's most important encyclopedia.

2. Siri, Sexbots & Robot Vacuum Cleaners

Aired: 9/10/2021

Germans love technological innovations. ACTUALLY. But in reality, we fear a hostile takeover by autonomous robots that will steal our jobs and take over the world.

3. Car first, People second

Aired: 9/17/2021

Germany, a country made for cars, not people! Because let's be honest: Cars are simply better people. Or have you ever had your heart broken by your city SUV? Probably not!

4. The Parties' dirty Facebook Tricks

Aired: 9/24/2021

Ever heard of microtargeting? Facebook makes a lot of money from it, and ALL parties represented in the Bundestag use microtargeting on Facebook in their election campaigns.

5. State Funding for AfD Foundation

Aired: 10/8/2021

We have good news and bad news: the AfD lost the federal election. BUT, thanks to a few million idiots, it can still enter the Bundestag for a second time and even win something.

6. Profiler - too true to be true

Aired: 10/15/2021

True crime is EVERYWHERE! Besides Helene Fischer's new album, there's nothing hotter right now than mysterious stories about real crimes! True crime experts on TV are especially mysterious.

7. The new Moria

Aired: 10/22/2021

Moria, the refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, burned down a year ago! Afterward, everyone agreed: Something as inhumane as the Moria camp must not be allowed to exist again in Europe.

8. Lifestyle CBD: Expensive Products with no Effect

Aired: 10/29/2021

Whether in mouth oil, bath bombs, dog shampoo, or lubricant – CBD is in everything, even though lifestyle CBD is to the body what the demands of Fridays For Future are to politics: It doesn't matter. Sorry to ruin the placebo effect for you again.

9. The Egg Throw of Halle - The Musical

Aired: 11/5/2021

On May 10, 1991, angry demonstrators threw eggs at Chancellor Helmut Kohl on the market square in Halle an der Saale, prompting Kohl to promptly launch a brawl with the protesting East Germans. The ZDF MAGAZIN ROYALE presents a gripping musical about unity, the power of revolution, and the power of love, centering on this now almost forgotten turning point in the relationship between East and West Germany.

10. The DVAG Pyramid System

Aired: 11/12/2021

If your old schoolmate contacts you again after years, there are only two options: Either he finally wants his "Fast and Furious" DVD box set back, or he now works at Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG and wants to sell you 15 life insurance policies. What one in ten Germans, including your old schoolmate Sascha, does can't be wrong! Can it?

11. How Cancel Culture is destroying Springer

Aired: 11/19/2021

Welcome to QUARTER TO WELKE – the talk show that's making headlines. Today, we're discussing sex, cabbage rolls, and the loss of power of the former media giant Axel Springer SE with five high-profile guests.

12. The Greens: Betrayal of their own Ideals

Aired: 11/26/2021

Yesterday, knitting sweaters in the Bundestag, today climbing the career ladder. Compromises are necessary if you want to govern, and then the traffic light coalition will work. Or, dear Greens?

13. Driving without a Ticket: A Crime since 1935

Aired: 12/3/2021

The German constitutional state is merciless and consistent! Whether it's theft, robbery, manslaughter, murder, or driving without a ticket.

14. How Facebook is destroying Democracies Worldwide

Aired: 12/10/2021

Facebook is working with crazy fascists and burning down the democracies of the world.