Günther Jauch, Thomas Gottschalk and Barbara Schöneberger can let off steam on Saturday evening at prime time on RTL. But that doesn’t quite work.
Frankfurt – Why are people drawn to primetime on Saturday evening in front of the TV screens in the new year 2022? Rising corona infection numbers, curfew and contact restrictions could be an explanation. The RTL show “Because you don’t know what’s going to happen”, which comes up with the moderators Günther Jauch, Thomas Gottschalk and Barbara Schöneberger, is definitely no reason to spend the evening on the couch at home.
The principle of the show is easy to explain: One person from the moderation triumvirate is appointed the moderator in the live show, yesterday Thomas Gottschalk, while Jauch and Schöneberger act as the host team and compete against a guest duo in ten games with Wigald Boning and Michael Mittermeier was chosen pleasantly pleasant.
“Jauch-Gottschalk-Schöneberger-Show” (RTL): The bar has been set low
After just 60 seconds, the three hosts have set the bar low for the evening – and they will not even try to set it higher: While Barbara Schöneberger, with wide eyes, an après-ski hit in the first camera pan of the In the evening bawls and Günther Jauch lets himself be carried away to a coke joke in the artificial snowfall of Cologne-Hürth, Thomas Gottschalk leaves no doubts about the level of the evening with a pee-poop joke about yellow snow. The look of the RTL show picks up the ball seamlessly: Carelessly arranged hut and winter decorations in the studio do not even stimulate the imagination that Jauch, Gottschalk and Schöneberger might not be with their guests in winter climes instead of in the studio Rhein-Erft-Kreis could be located.
The title “Because they don’t know what’s happening” promises the audience surprising TV moments. But the concept of the show does not come into play at any moment in the evening. While Günther Jauch and Barbara Schöneberger become guests in their own show with the appointment of Gottschalk as the presenter of the evening – and guests in game shows usually do not know what to expect anyway – Thomas Gottschalk moderates the show with his decades of experience gone without any climax.
| Tv show | Because they don’t know what’s going to happen! |
| Director | Volker Weicker |
| Charisma | since 2018 |
| premiere | August 18, 2018 on RTL |
Thomas Gottschalk tries to bridge lengths in the RTL show with jokes on the subject of gender
Even the veteran showmaster doesn’t know which game will follow the previous one. But Gottschalk manages to exude the charm of the slightly demented and confused great-uncle during his moderation when he wanders through the studio before each game and looks for the right cross on the floor of the show stage from which to moderate the next game. The resulting uncomfortable length of the show tries to be bridged by Gottschalk again and again with even more unpleasant jokes on the subject of gender. And one would be tempted to get upset at this point. But Gottschalk’s understanding of comedy no longer lures the audience out from behind the stove after all these years. And in view of the extended boredom and the advanced hour of the evening, Gottschalk only makes for a resigned groan, because for an increased pulse.
While Kai Pflaume, a young professional, lets stars compete against children on the same slot in the public service competition – which suddenly seems like an exciting show concept in the light of “Because they don’t know what’s happening” – the private broadcaster RTL produces one Evening that brings 183 years of concentrated moderation experience to the stage with Jauch, Gottschalk and Schöneberger, but ultimately produces nothing but four and a half hours of consistent climax and thus meanders the evening into the insignificance of TV nirvana.
“Because they don’t know what’s going to happen” “
Season 5, episode 1, RTL
Inexplicable why RTL is giving Jauch, Gottschalk and Schöneberger a new season
Just as inexplicable as the fact that Barbara Schöneberger consistently addresses co-host Günther Jauch for four and a half agonizing hours as “Mr. Jauch” remains the question of why RTL is giving the three show masters a new season of the show for the New Year. With all the benevolence for live shows on linear television, the only thing that becomes clear is why video-on-demand and streaming services are so popular. With “Because they don’t know what’s happening”, RTL presented an evening that neither the audience nor the moderation triumvirate will be able to remember in a week. (Moritz Post)
