Audience ratings: More than nine million see Merkel’s tattoo

Audience ratings
More than nine million see Merkel’s tattoo

The big tattoo for the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) was the television event of the evening on Thursday. On ZDF alone, 9.04 million (30.4 percent) watched the live broadcast “End of an Era” from 19.20.

440,000 people (1.5 percent) were there on Phoenix. The news channel Welt achieved 374,000 viewers (1.2 percent) when it went live for the ceremony.

Even the most successful primetime programs couldn’t keep up with that. On the first, 7.06 million (22.7 percent) watched the special program “ARD extra: The Corona situation” from 8.15 p.m. onwards. After that, the regional thriller “Wolfsland: Böses Blut” with Götz Schubert and Yvonne Catterfeld was left with 5.82 million (19.9 percent).

The ZDF action series “Die Bergretter” with Sebastian Ströbel and Luise Bähr brought in 6.10 million (20.4 percent). The news special “RTL Aktuell Spezial: Corona Crisis – Hard Rules in Advent” interested 2.28 million (7.3 percent), then 1.61 million (5.6 percent) followed the RTL report “Extra Spezial : Rebecca – What happened to our daughter? “

Vox broadcast the US action comedy “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” with Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black, 1.8 million (6.3 percent) wanted to see it. Sat.1 had the American comedy «Mrs. Doubtfire »with Robin Williams and Sally Field in the program – 980,000 (3.6 percent) attended.

With the entertainment program “Surprise! The Bruce Darnell Show “Getting 980,000 people (3.6 percent) to tune in. The RTLzwei company report “Hartes Deutschland – Leben im Brennpunkt” followed 720,000 people (2.5 percent). The Kabel-Eins documentary series “Berlin Behind Bars” attracted 410,000 men and women (1.4 percent) in front of the screen. The US crime series “Monk” with Tony Shalhoub had 370,000 viewers (1.2 percent) on ZDFneo.

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