2024-06-04 08:50:33
“Veterinarian Dr. Mertens” will return to screens subsequent yr with new episodes. Now there are first particulars in regards to the ninth season.
The favored ARD sequence “Tierärztin Dr. Mertens” is being renewed once more. The format with Elisabeth Lanz within the title position was really supposed to finish in 2021 after seven seasons. However the first channel additionally commissioned an eighth season of the profitable sequence – and it additionally scored with common viewing figures of 4.31 million viewers. Due to this fact, a sequel within the type of a ninth season is now being produced.
Filming has now begun, as the primary channel introduced in a press launch. Within the new episodes, the primary character Susanne Mertens devotes herself to a youth program on the Leipzig Zoo. She is coaching the subsequent technology of veterinarians, which, in accordance with ARD, provides her the chance to “move on her personal competence, expertise and accountability – in coping with animals and folks alike”. However this new twist will not be the top of it.
The zoo’s chief veterinarian additionally has a brand new colleague in Dr. Matteo Berger. The veterinarian, performed by Tobias Licht, involves the Leipzig Zoo as a veterinarian. He and Dr. Mertens get on extraordinarily properly professionally.
Tobias Licht will not be the one new face within the ARD sequence: Antonia Breidenbach, Madeleine de le Roi and Noel Okwanga play veterinary college students within the ninth season of “Tierärztin Dr. Mertens”. Nonetheless, acquainted faces from the common solid, equivalent to Ursela Monn, Gunter Schoß and Lennart Betzgen, are additionally returning to the display screen.
The printed of the brand new episodes of “Veterinarian Dr. Mertens” is deliberate for 2025, however there’s at the moment no particular begin date. There will likely be 13 new episodes in whole. The episodes will likely be filmed in Leipzig and the encompassing space till the top of November.