Ratings
Murot’s “Tatort” only gets weak TV ratings
Felix Murot (Ulrich Tukur) in a scene from the TV crime thriller “Tatort: Murot and Paradise”. photo
© Bettina Müller/HR/dpa
That was a modest appearance by “Tatort” standards: Ulrich Tukur as Inspector Murot attracted almost 6 million viewers.
The new “Tatort” crime thriller with a TV inspector Felix Murot achieved a comparatively weak audience rating in the first on Sunday. The very experimental episode “Murot and the Paradise” with Ulrich Tukur, Barbara Philipp and Brigitte Hobmeier wanted to see an average of 5.95 million (21.4 percent) from 8:15 p.m.
That’s not a great value, not only in comparison to other “Tatort” teams from Cologne, Münster or Munich. The series surrounding LKA investigator Murot also gets better ratings. At the end of September last year, 8.13 million viewers (27.6 percent) followed the case “Murot and the Law of Karma”. Maybe the plot was too crazy for fans this time and they switched off.
The Frankfurt episode “Murot and Paradise” was about artificially created feelings of happiness. The murder victims had their navels removed and surgically replaced with a port with which they could attach to an artificial umbilical cord. Murot also undergoes this procedure. In his manipulated world of thoughts he encounters the mass murderer Adolf Hitler and attacks the dictator. The Hessian crime thriller divided opinions on the “Tatort” Facebook page.
The ZDF romantic comedy followed with a relatively close gap: “Malibu – Kiss the Frog” with Karla Nina Diedrich, Tom Radisch and Lewe Wagner took home 3.97 million (14.3 percent). Sat.1 broadcast the spy thriller “James Bond 007 – Specter”. The film with Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz and Léa Seydoux was seen by 1.60 million (6.8 percent). The Vox cooking show “Grill den Henssler” attracted 1.43 million (6.5 percent) to the screen.
Kabel eins had the ranking show “Germany’s Greatest Secrets” to offer, 1.06 million (3.9 percent) watched. The American comic film adaptation “Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn” with Margot Robbie and Mary Elizabeth Winstead was shown on ProSieben. 930,000 science fiction fans were enthusiastic about it (3.5 percent).
RTL broadcast “NFL Live”. The Buffalo Bills’ match against the New England Patriots was watched by 770,000 American football fans (3.00 percent) from 8:32 p.m. On RTLzwei, the fantasy comedy “Night at the Museum” with Ben Stiller, Robin Williams and Dick van Dyke had 720,000 viewers (2.7 percent).