The Japan Episode

I’m always late to things. Genuinely, perpetually late. So I didn’t discover Die Pixelmacher until long after their show had been cancelled, and not just the show—the entire network, ZDFkultur, basically got liquidated. By the time I found it, it was already gone.

My favorite episode was the Japan documentary. A documentary so different from everything else on German television that I kept thinking how much better TV would be if the whole system operated like that one episode did. Not that it would be easy, not that it would work—just that it was possible, apparently, once.

Which makes me wonder what it actually costs to start your own television network, because I’ve definitely got ideas.