'De Kotmadam' was a classic Flemish comedy television series, that aired from 1991 to 2024, meaning the show is the longest running Belgian sitcom in terms of time and amounts of episodes and seasons.
The series revolves around Jeanne Piens, who owns a small sweet shop in the centre of Leuven and rents out several rooms of her house to students studying in the city. She is a caring type and loves all her students. Her husband Jef Liefooghe works for the city's gardening department. Except for the last season, their friend Odilon Bonheur, a naïve warden in the local prison, visits regularly to give or seek help.
Frans Van As does all his life a firm in demolition, but other times does not realize that other rules questions. He must be forced to retire, but sees none of his sons are able to take over the family business. Eventually put French still step aside and come Eddy, actually the least skilled son, in the lead. He wants to immediately implement a number of profound changes, but that is easier said than done.
Exciting challenges and great stunts. That's how we know the Coppens brothers. Now they put special rooms full of scientific puzzles, tests and assignments that their famous friends have to bring to a successful conclusion. What familiar face cracks the Code of Coppens?
This Flemish sitcom is entirely about the entirely wacky lower-class family Backeljau, which always speaks the most common Antwerp dialect. It consists of father François 'Cois' Backeljau, his wife Maria, the rather cunning Bomma ('granny' Thérèse, his mother), the even older pet (in dog years) Blacky, their son Franky and his wife Janine, daughter Sabrina and her husband Antonio and little nephew Lionel, the youngest but more intelligent then all his dumb relatives together and various lovers, friends and regular guests, such as the mailman and the policeman.
What if you say 'Yes, I do' to someone you have never seen? Can love grow between two people when you bring them together based on science, expertise, knowledge and rational parameters? The Blind Getrouwd (Married at First Sight) social experiment will start using these questions. Ten singles leave the choice of their partner to the relationship experts and look forward to their wedding day, the most exciting day of their lives. After that, the life of the five duos really starts together. A wedding party, together on a honeymoon, to immediately go live together. This social experiment follows the couples in the first weeks after their yes. Do they seize the opportunity to grow love and do they live happily ever after?
Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her mother.