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Sat 1 is the experiment “from Newtopia” in which candidates around a barn in a new Brandenburg should build life.

The nature can again spread, the danger has passed After a little more than 100 episodes finished Sat1 the reality format Newtopia , leaving not only a two-acre field near King Wusterhausen again yourself, but also the fifteen “pioneers” mentioned candidates there one since mid-February – in the transmitter speech – “new, maybe better society” should build. They got out of the sight Hausen in Brandenburg from their jobs and their daily lives. When exactly they will leave the premises, is not fixed yet.

It was originally applied the format to a whole year, but as the station announced on Monday afternoon, the last episode is already aired this Friday. The live stream on the Newtopia Web site has been shut down in parallel with the publication of the press release before. Fear of the transmitter a mutiny of the pioneers when they learned of the dismissal? Satellite 1 spokesman holds against: “We do not want our TV viewers will advance taken the tension.” A fear that is new, the live stream was but from the very beginning an integral part of the Newtopia concept. Commanded all owners of a paid “Premium Pass”, the access to Live Chat and the 360-degree camera in the Newtopia -Scheune, you’ll last reported on proven contribution in full, it said. Many customers are unlikely to be affected by it: the interest in Newtopia was rapidly after. Saw the first episode still 2.8 million viewers, it was at last only about one million.

The failure of Newtopia is bitter for Sat 1, the transmitter has but plenty of money and advertising in the imported from the Netherlands’ largest TV experiment of all time “plugged. From Monday to Friday you recorded with John de Mol ( Big Brother , The Voice ) conceived format on the eve of a full program hour – actually too much for the expected financial yield , insiders say. Along with the production company Talpa Germany had its transmitter “much airtime, passion and ideas” plugged in Newtopia , Sat 1 commented CEO Nicolas Paalzow the corner. “Unfortunately, without the hoped-for success.”

In support of the flops the transmitter speaker refers to Paalzow statement in the press release – which, however, on the reasons says nothing. Instead: “We promise: Sat 1 will continue to be trusted to bring bold ideas on the TV screen.” The “Daily Drama” In danger – a fateful moment that the Newtopia -Sendeplatz on Monday takes the time being, is probably rather not do so. In the autumn then fill the new magazine Our day and the daily soap Mila with the previous GZSZ actress Susan Sideropoulos the gap.

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Newtopia in memory will remain primarily an incident in April when a live on the Internet transmitted nocturnal production meeting aroused serious doubts about the credibility of the reality documentary: A production staff member spoke against the pioneers of that there was “always wishes” to them, every day they telephone . with producer de Mol This reference to stage directions in Newtopia is in stark contrast to a statement from satellite 1-Head of Entertainment Taco Ketelaar: “The program is real, it’s authentic.” The transmitter distanced itself from the incident and promised enlightenment. However, the public learned then hardly anything, except that the employee was dismissed. Newtopia and thus the entire reality genre has been seriously damaged by the uncertainty of whether or when the “TV experiment” was cheating.

In spite of the alleged on behalf utopian character and dominated in Newtopia , the well-known abuses from and Gezicke a group together kasernierter man of whom also formats such as Big Brother or I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here ! live: cabin fever as television entertainment. That audiences are tired of something that is – see Newtopia quotas – undeniable. Nevertheless, it can not be Pro Sieben Sat and brings 15 years after the first season Big Brother in the fall when interest channels Sixx back to German television. Hope not just makes the removal of Newtopia there.