Lots of shows fought for the favor of the TV viewers on Saturday. But only one can win in the end. And the celebrated TV premiere.
[Berlin -] In the race for the Saturday evening shows, ZDF and its new presenter Giovanni Zarrella won. The first edition of the “Giovanni Zarrella Show” had an average of 3.81 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 16.2 percent from 8:15 pm.
Zarrella is the music show successor to Carmen Nebel on ZDF, who hosted her program “Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel” for the last time in March after almost 18 years and which had a good four and a half million viewers at the time. Zarrella (43) is also the new counterpart to Florian Silbereisen (40) on ARD, who last week had around 3.7 million viewers with his “Schlagerchallenge.2021 – The very big dream!”
The ARD show “Hirschhausen’s Quiz des Menschen” reached 2.83 million viewers (11.9 percent) and the RTL show “Because they don’t know what’s happening” with Günther Jauch, Barbara Schöneberger and Thomas Gottschalk 1.85 million ( 9.5 percent).
Behind were Sat.1 and the US action film “Bumblebee” with 1.49 million people (6.1 percent), NDR television with a Cologne “Tatort” repetition (“Dicker than Wasser” from 2015) and 1, 43 million (5.8 percent) and the US thriller “Boston” on ProSieben with 1.40 million (5.8 percent). This was followed by SWR television with the show “Das Beste vom Schlager-FUN” with Andy Borg and 1.13 million (4.6 percent) as well as Kabel eins with the series “Hawaii Five-0” and 0.46 million (1 , 9 percent).
Only after that came RTLzwei (“Hartes Deutschland – Leben im Brennpunkt”) and Vox (“Kitchen Impossible 2020 – The Chef’s Diaries”), each with 410,000 viewers.
In the case of viewers up to 50 (14 to 49 years of age) at the shows, “Because they don’t know what’s happening” (0.66 million / 13.9 percent) was ahead of “Hirschhausen’s Quiz of People” (0.51 million / 9 , 0 percent) and the “Giovanni Zarrella Show” (0.42 million / 7.4 percent). [dpa]
