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Filming is underway on Ku’damm 77, the fourth season of the popular German drama.

The series is produced by German banner UFA Fiction. The new show comes in the wake of earlier outings Ku’damm 56, Ku’damm 59 and Ku’damm 63. Cameras are rolling in and around the German capital, Berlin.

The saga about the Schöllack dance school follows a family history over several decades. As the name implies, Ku’damm 77 picks up the family story in 1977.

Annette Hess, recipient of Deadline’s German TV Disruptor Award last year, penned the scripts for the three-part series. Hess is one of Germany’s top creatives, counting the Ku’damm series among her credits as well as We Children From Bahnhoff Zoo and The Interpreter of Silence for Disney+.

Hess has helped set the structure of the team as filming commences. She is showrunner and has that wide oversight, with Maurice Hübner in the director’s chair.

It’s easy to forgive a lot in a romance if the chemistry is strong enough, and for the first couple episodes of Apple TV+’s Liaison, the sparks between Eva Green’s Alison and Vincent Cassel’s Gabriel seem reason enough to forge ahead. It hardly matters if we don’t really understand the international conspiracy that’s reunited these estranged exes, or that we don’t yet understand what transpired between them all those years ago. The smolder between them draws us in, even when all they’re doing is exchanging a wordless gaze through a rain-splattered window.

But without enough fuel to ignite a blaze, smolder is about as far as it gets. By the time Liaison stumbles to a close, whatever flickers of promise it showed early on have long since been stamped out by indifferent storytelling and a bloated run time.

The narrative is simultaneously...

"Can you trust this man... after what you did to him?" Oooh - what did she do?! Apple TV has revealed an official trailer for a thriller series titled Liaison, which will be available later this month on the streaming service. The descriptions for this so far are all a bit vague: An international struggle between governments and the hackers who just want to watch it all burn. So it's kind of like Mr. Robot, or not? Something else? It stars Vincent Cassel and Eva Green as the main characters - former lovers caught in the middle of it all. Liaison is a high-stakes, contemporary thriller exploring how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future, mixing action with an unpredictable, multilayered plot - "espionage and political intrigue play out against a story of passionate and enduring love." The supporting cast also includes Peter Mullan, Gérard Lanvin,...