Sky Deutschland AG, branded as Sky, is a German media company which operates a Direct Broadcast Satellite Pay TV platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (through Teleclub) offering a collection of basic and premium digital subscription television channels of different categories via Satellite and Cable Television.

It was launched in 1991 as Premiere. On 4 July 2009, the service and its channels were re-branded as "Sky", resembling Sky in the UK & Ireland and Sky Italia in Italy.

News Corporation owns 49.9% of Sky Deutschland; the remaining shares are owned by diverse shareholders.

The channel originally started off as a single analogue channel on the Astra 1A satellite, showing films dubbed into German as well as in original audio, live football matches from the German Bundesliga and Austrian Bundesliga (and at one time the UEFA Cup), as well as documentaries, TV series and in the mid-1990s, late-night erotic films. After the coming of the digital age, the service has since consisted of many channels with many new ones added over the years.

Heino Ferch (born 18 August 1963) is an award-winning German film and television actor.

The son of a cargo vessel skipper, he was on stage for the first time in his life at the age of 15, while he was still attending grammar school. As a member of the stage ballet company in the musical Can-Can he performed the tumbling acrobatics acts on the stage of the City Theater in his home town of Bremerhaven. During this time, he traveled through Europe as a federal member of the National League of Gymnastics.

1987 Ferch finished his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria. In addition to his main subject drama, he also took courses in tap dancing, ballet and singing.

From 1987 until 2006 Ferch lived in the city of Berlin, a city whose division after World War II and reunification in 1989 is repeatedly reflected in his work as a movie actor („Menteurs“, „The Tunnel, Mord am Meer, The Airlift, The Wall - Berlin 1961 and upcoming in 2008 The Miracle of Berlin). After his wedding in 2005 he moved his main residence to Bavaria.

Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger (German pronunciation: [ˈtɪlman ˈvaləntiːn ˈʃvaɪɡɐ]; born 19 December 1963) is a German actor, director, and producer. He is one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers. Since 1968, when the FFA started counting, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.

Schweiger was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He married American model Dana Carlson on June 19, 1995. The couple has four children: Valentin Florian (b. 1995), Luna Marie (b. 1997), Lilli Camille (b. 1998), and Emma Tiger (b. October 2002). They separated in 2005, but have not divorced.