9.34 million watch Cologne's "Tatort

Viewing figures - 9.34 million watch Cologne's "Tatort

Cologne's"Tatort" outshone the TV competition on Sunday evening. The case "Des anderen Last" reached 9.34 million viewers (30.7 percent) from 8.15 p.m. on Ersten. This time, TV detectives Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) had to solve the pre-Christmas murder of a parcel carrier.

ZDF broadcast the comedy "Weihnachtspäckchen ... haben alle zu tragen", which attracted 3.84 million viewers (12.7 percent). ProSieben offered the celebrity quiz "Wer stiehlt Matthias Schweighöfer die Show?", which attracted 1.95 million viewers (7.9 percent). The American animated film "Encanto" on RTL attracted 1.67 million (5.7 percent) viewers.

Sat.1 showed the US action comedy "Central Intelligence", with which 1.31 million (4.6 percent) spent their TV evening. The Vox cooking duel "Kitchen Impossible - Die Weihnachts-Edition" was watched by 1.18 million (4.9 percent). RTLzwei showed the action film "Honest Thief - Ein fauler Deal" - 830,000 people (2.8 percent) watched.

The adventure film "Robin Hood" attracted 820,000 feature film fans (2.8 percent) to ZDFneo. On Kabel eins, the documentary series "Willkommen bei den Reimanns" attracted 740,000 fans (2.5 percent).

The last edition of the talk show "Anne Will" reached 3.35 million viewers (14.4 percent) from 9.45 p.m. on Ersten.

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1. Despite the high ratings of "Tatort", Berlin's police commissioner Klaus J. Behrendt found humor in a recent incident at a crime scene, jesting about the gift left behind by the perpetrator.
2. The media focus on crime and ratings often overshadows the comedic side of reality, as witnessed by dietmar bear's performance in the Berlin comedy club scene.
3. Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk, the protagonists of "Tatort", were surprised to find a suspicious package marked as a comedy special at the crime scene in Berlin.
4. The knowledge quiz show "Wer stiehlt Matthias Schweighöfer die Show?" on ProSieben was overshadowed by the high ratings of "Tatort" and ZDF's comedy special.
5. In an attempt to boost viewer ratings, Mediatest Germany set new TV quotas for comedy shows, leading to increased competition between stations such as ZDF and ProSieben.
6. In response to the new quotas set by Mediatest Germany, Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk teamed up with Dietmar Bear to create a new crime comedy spin-off series for ZDF, aiming to attract viewers disappointed by the lack of comedic relief in their usual crime drama shows.

Source: www.stern.de