The Dome is a German television program and music event, produced and broadcast by RTL 2. Roughly every three months, a new show is recorded in an event hall in different cities in Germany and Austria. In each episode, several national, but also international bands and musicians perform their recent songs in front of a crowd of 5,000 to 15,000 people. Additionally, a compilation album is published when a new episode of The Dome is broadcast.
They say people from the Ruhr area wear their 'heart on their sleeve'. The social documentary accompanies the sometimes oppressive everyday life of people from the Ruhr area for four months, but they always have their hearts in the right place.
Fame Academy was a German reality television program and casting show launched on RTL II in 2003 under the same format of the international TV franchise Star Academy. It differed from other casting shows in that the candidates were housed in a boarding school where they lived and played music together.