Country music variety/talk show featured performances by country artists, comedians, and other performers, along with interviews and discussion of the country music industry.
Simone and Marie-Philippe turn their terrace into a place for parties and stimulating conversation with guests. Collaborators and friends drop by to give them tips based on their personal experience, lend a hand on a DIY project, serve as guinea pigs for one of Simone’s recipes, or act as sidekicks for one of Marie-Philippe’s crazy ideas.
In the eight-part program U3000 (2000), broadcasted by the music station MTV, Schlingensief assumes the role of the presenter who hates himself for his self-love disguised as telegenic selflessness. Common broadcasting formats are all being ridiculed without exception. A socially needy family can qualify for participation by winning the always same outside bet, in order to make their private fate public in front of a running camera and in the presence of passengers in the moving subway. Childlike rounds of games give them the opportunity to improve social welfare, critically watched by a jury made up of the handicapped actors from Schlingensief's ensemble. Aged show stars like Maria and Margot Hellwig, Christian Anders or Roberto Blanco are used in a talk-show wagon as cheap fodder and are forced to show compassion with such victims of the market economy. The bands of the MTV generation (Atari Teenage Riot, Surrogat, Söhne Mannheims and others) play in the dance wagon.
Inside 30 for 30 is a deep-dive, roundtable discussion providing historical context and analytical takes with a diverse line-up of hosts and interviewees tangentially associated with 30 for 30 films.