On the Spot: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

On the Spot digging for human stories behind the news with two cameras, without a crew, giving the films extraordinary intimacy and honesty from the revolution in Egypt to earthquakes in Japan. The motto of the series is from Robert Capa, the Hungarian war photographer: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."

The filmmakers have received the Press Freedom Award in Strasbourg from the Council of Europe, the Prix Jury in Karlovy Vary at the Tourfilm Festival and the Golden Nymph as Best Documentary at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. "On the Spot: Gaza" has got the Gold Plaque at the 50th Chicago International Film Festival TV-Awards and the prize for "Best Foreign Short Documentary" at the American Documentary Film Festival in 2014.

Series details

• Title: On the Spot
• Format: Documentary
• Language: Hungarian
• Premiere date: 2009-11-09
• Final broadcast date listed: 2023-06-21
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: RTL+
• Typical episode runtime: 50 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 7514
• IMDb ID: tt3716464
• TVDB ID: 124641

Cast and credited roles

• Eszter Cseke — Eszter Cseke
• András S. Takács — András S. Takács

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-11-09; final listed air date 2010-07-10; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2010-10-07; final listed air date 2011-12-07; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 2012-02-22; final listed air date 2012-06-20; episode order: 6.
• Season 4: premiered 2012-09-26; final listed air date 2012-12-19; episode order: 4.
• Season 5: premiered 2012-03-07; final listed air date 2013-01-02; episode order: 7.
• Season 6: premiered 2014-01-29; final listed air date 2014-04-23; episode order: 7.
• Season 7: premiered 2015-09-13; final listed air date 2016-02-22; episode order: 12.
• Season 8: premiered 2017-10-18; final listed air date 2017-12-20; episode order: 10.
• Season 9: premiered 2018-10-31; final listed air date 2018-12-19; episode order: 8.
• Season 10: premiered 2021-11-15; final listed air date 2022-06-16; episode order: 4.
• Season 11: premiered 2022-11-16; final listed air date 2023-06-21; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from On the Spot on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.