It will be one of the most historic moments in German television when Markus Lanz “Wetten, dass ..?” This Saturday for the last time the large – enters the stage. Once again, he can start his candidates. For the last time he asks his celebrity guests a matter of law before the betting thumbs up or down. At 22.45 clock, it provides for the programming, is then concluded with the most prominent German television show. Nearly 34 years, she was just as much as the ZDF Mainzelmännchen.
Among the guests are in Nuremberg not, as originally planned once the former Moderators belong. Show inventor Frank Elstner (72) lifted the former flagship 1981 out of baptism, renounced his presence, as well as Thomas Gottschalk (64), with the mission had its best times and ceded exactly three years ago. Wolfgang Lippert (62) briefly in 1992 and 1993 it does not come.
The program is now only a shadow of itself, but it is more than two million euros per issue just as expensive. The odds have dropped dramatically. Gottschalk’s resignation three years ago still interested almost 15 million viewers, and the start of the successor Lanz saw in October 2012 still 13.6 million curious. Thereafter, the dramatic decline began with last 5.5 million.
The audience has changed
ZDF Program Director Norbert Himmler explains the lack of traction with the loss of “unique features” “No question, ‘Wetten, dass ..?’ is a defining part of our television history, but in recent years has changed quite a bit very long term, “Himmler said. “Hollywood stars brought previously only ‘Wetten, dass ..?’ in the living room. ” This has changed radically. And also “special talents, there is the ‘Super Talent’ to see the assembly line,” said Himmler.
The reception habits have also changed. Younger people shun the television greater part, they look at videos on YouTube curious and need not “Wetten, dass ..?”. The negative events around the show have harmed the classic term. Unforgettable is the tragic accident of the young Betting candidate Samuel Koch, who while trying to bounce with springs on cars so difficult crashed in December 2010 that he was paralyzed forever. The constant surreptitious advertising suspect in connection with the “Wetten, dass ..?” integrated company Dolce Media of Gottschalk’s brother Christoph left an aftertaste.
Not Alone “Wetten, dass ..?” dies – other shows, the curse hit this year. For them, but it was almost exclusively to new developments. Two ProSieben series (“Millionaire choice,” “Keep Your Light Shining”) failed, as RTL with “Rising Star”. Even Michelle Hunziker (37) had at ZDF with their “surprise show” no success. Unfazed shows ProSieben flagship Stefan Raab with all his ideas, even the ARD classic “Candid Camera” adheres properly.
Farewell is a “turning point”
that the end of “Wetten, dass. .? ” after 215 editions is a cut of importance to society can be seen from the attitude of prominent companion: “‘Wetten, dass ..?’ has gathered over many years by the grandmother to grandson the whole family watching television and the show was the next day almost spoken everywhere, “said presenter Günther Jauch dpa. “This is a great merit. Today often create these ‘bonfire’ effect only major sporting events.”
Also, the master of the house in Nuremberg, Mayor Ulrich Maly, mourns after the show. She had “accompanied the growing up” to him, Maly said. The farewell was definitely a “turning point”: “The mission will miss a lot.” And it is always nice, “when the shipment comes from Nuremberg, but for the viewer it looks so ultimately always the same -. No matter what city she comes”
comparatively restrained commented Thomas Gottschalk, who presented the show from 1987 to 2011 with a short interruption:” With the ZDF I agree that I am at the end of ‘Wetten, dass ..?’ not external, and find a funeral in a small circle also appropriate as a state funeral. “
Samuel Koch is also the last show
Witness the” funeral “are on Saturday, inter alia, the ARD” Tatort “commissars Til Schweiger, Wotan Wilke Möhring and Jan Josef Liefers and comedian Michael” Bully “Herbig and Otto Waalkes and Hollywood actor Ben Stiller, the will take place at the lance on the couch. Boxer Wladimir Klitschko is probably not because he is waiting for the birth of his child. This is Samuel Koch, 27 years old, the symbol of “Wetten, dass ..?.” – End in Nuremberg
The ZDF turns his attention already forward, because even without entertainment Chef – Oliver Fuchs had to go to manipulated ranking shows in the summer after the scandal – the planning run at full speed. First results are already there. “There will not be one follow-up format,” said program director Himmler. “We will bring the first new shows on the screen in the spring.”
Among others, these include the new game show “thousand”, a joint development with the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC, and “The game begins!” with Johannes B. Kerner. Also: The Udo Jürgens Gala in October was “an emotional, thrilling and topbesetzte Music Show”. This form of contemporary tribute shows they would continue.
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