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| Show Tidbits | INTERVIEW WITH TERESA ANN MILLER
Q. WHAT IS REX's REAL NAME?
Rex's original name is Henry. The name Reginald von Ravenhorst is Rex's certified fictitious name created by the writers for the character. All three dogs that have played Rex over the years, B.J., Rhett and Henry were therefore called Reginald von Ravenhorst.
2) HOW OLD IS REX?
Rex/Henry is six years old and was born in Germany.
3) IS THERE ANY SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR THE DOG DURING THE SHOOTING?
Henry does not receive any special treatment during the shooting because special treatment is normal for him, so he is used to it.
4) HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR THE SCENES?
We receive the scripts in advance and throughout the shooting schedule we teach him the new behaviours as necessary.
5) HOW LONG DID YOU PREPARE HENRY BEFORE THE SHOOTING?
Before the first day of shooting we had 5 and a half months of training.
6) WHICH WERE THE MOST DIFFICULT SCENES?
Any scene in which Rex has to ignore food and is not allowed to eat is a difficult scene.
| At the time of making Kommissar Rex the actor Tobias Moretti had his own dog, a German Shepherd like Rex, whose name was Pico. Pico would get very jealous when Moretti returned from a day's filming with the scent and hairs of another dog all over him. Presumably Pico was quite relieved when Moretti left the series after four years.
| INTERVIEW WITH CARDINAL RATZINGER
When interviewed on the occasion of the Pope's birthday his brother, Georg Ratzinger, a high-ranking clergyman himself, revealed that he and his brother only watch two things on television: The News and Kommissar Rex.
The following is taken from a European Television broadcast in April, 2007.
The brother of the Holy Father - Georg Ratzinger: A portrait by BR, 15.4.2007.
Georg Ratzinger: Then we have dinner and watch the news together, afterwards a walk and the evening prayer in the chapel ...
Interviewer: Do you watch the Italian news?
Georg Ratzinger: Yes, the Italian news from Rai 1. And afterwards always the 'Rex' film - I know the master, the owner and trainer of Rex very well. He told me that Rex has been put down some weeks ago. He had reached his blessed age and is now in dog-heaven, if one may say so.
Interviewer: So, you watch such films, together with the Pope then?
Georg Ratzinger: Oh yes, of course we always come late, we have dinner at half past seven, then the news at eight and then as much as we can we watch 'Rex'.
Interviewer: It's called 'A dog named Rex' I believe?
Georg Ratzinger: You have never heard it?
Woman: Kommissar Rex.
Georg Ratzinger: Yes, 'Kommissar Rex', that's the dog ... but this is about the only thing I have to admit that it's the extent of my TV knowledge. But Rex I do watch frequently.
| DOGGED DETECTIVE'S FOUR-LEGGED FAN
One Hobart Pooch is an avid watcher of a Canine TV Star:
LIKE other TV celebrities, Kommissar Rex has a lot of swooning fans around the world.
But it's unlikely any is as starstruck by the german shepherd crusader-against-crime from Austria as Ben, a Tasmanian four-year-old chihuahua-terrier cross.
Ben's a star in his own right in the eyes of his loving owners Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Hobart, Tasmania.
Mrs. Smith well remembers the first time Ben became entranced by Rex.
'It started about six months ago when I was at home on my own one night and turned on the telly to see what Kommissar Rex was like,' she recalls.
Ben was lying there asleep, but when Rex barked he woke up and went mad when he saw the german shepherd on the screen. He got completely carried away and started making strange noises.
'Then he sat there with his eyes wide open and watched the whole hour.'
Another quirky thing is that Ben knows every Thursday night is Kommissar Rex time without any prompting from his owners.
'He never misses an episode,'' said Mrs. Smith. 'It's all pretty weird.'
The good news for the hundreds of thousands of Kommissar Rex fans around the world is that a new series of the renowned german shepherd police dog is being released in Australia.
The demographic range of the famous dog's legion of fans worldwide couldn't be wider. It goes from boys and girls to uncles and aunties, who chorus they couldn't have received a better Christmas present than a new Kommissar Rex series.
It came in response to concerns that the long-running Austrian TV police series shot in Vienna might have run its race in Australia, where repeat episodes were all that fans had to tide them over.
It looked like curtains for the famous canine crime-fighter who captures crooks, defuses bombs and sniffs out drugs.
And that loomed as a major blow for his 500,000 devoted Australian viewers.
But with the announcement of a new series, the show's producers have confirmed it will continue, for the time being at least, its long run on SBS.
And that's manna from heaven for Ben.
His owners are still bemused at how Ben knows without prompting when to pad into the living room and nestle up close to the TV as Kommissar Rex is about to start.
While Rex is a paragon of truth and justice, his show occasionally gets the furrowed-brow treatment from the censors.
Late last May, SBS was forced to apologise to the Australian Communications and Media Authority for screening in the 7:30 p.m. family viewing time slot an episode that depicted a man being murdered during a sexual encounter with a married couple.
Aware of the series' popularity, Dymocks Booksellers in Hobart stocks a wide range of Kommissar Rex DVDs which have been in strong demand in the lead-up to Christmas.
Sales Assistant Jane said the series was launched in 1994 after the success of a one-hour mini-movie.
'Kommissar Rex is set in and around Vienna and even though it's scripted entirely in German, it doesn't bother his fans, who have happily adapted to reading the sub-titles without losing the plot,' Jane said.
| Austria (ORF)
Australia (SBS network - subtitled)
Belgium (VTM - subtitled; RTL-TVI - dubbed)
Brazil (Multishow) - subtitled;
Bulgaria (BNT - dubbed);
Chile (Chilevisión) - dubbed to Spanish; as Comisario Rex
Colombia (Canal Caracol) (CityTV)(The FilmZone) - translated to Spanish -
Croatia (HRT)
Cyprus (PIK)
Czech Republic (Prima network - dubbed)
Estonia (Kanal 2)
Finland (Nelonen)
France (France 2 - dubbed)
Germany (Sat.1)
Greece (Alpha and Alter - dubbed)
Hungary (TV2 - dubbed)
Iceland (Sjónvarpið)
Italy (RAI network - dubbed)
Latvia (LTV1; LNT)
Lithuania (BTV; LTV)
The Netherlands (RTL Group Netherlands)
Norway (TV2 Zebra)
Poland
Portugal (SIC network)
Romania (Prima TV)
Russia (RTR - dubbed)
Slovakia (TV Markiza - dubbed)
Slovenia (RTV SLO - subtitled
Spain (Antena 3 - dubbed)
Sweden
Switzerland (TSR (French) - dubbed ; DRS (German))
United Kingdom
Uruguay (Monte Carlo TV Canal 4 - dubbed)
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