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Otto succumbs to Welke, but beats Böhmermann
Friday evening before the second Advent: Otto Waalkes jokes and sings in the first in an Advent show, Oliver Welke and Jan Böhmermann do their comedy in the second.
At a later hour on Friday evening, ARD and ZDF competed with comedy this time. The music show “Otto Fröhliche – Advent, Advent with Otto and Friends” switched on an average of 2.96 million, which corresponds to a market share of 13.9 percent from 10:15 pm.
The ZDF “heute show” with Oliver Welke saw as much as 4.77 million (20.2 percent) from 10.30 p.m., Jan Böhmermann and his “ZDF Magazin Royale” reached 2.21 million (11 , 6 percent), but was defeated by Otto Waalkes, whose show lasted until 11:45 p.m.
The overall winner was “Die Chefin”
At prime time from 8:15 p.m., Friday was as usual: the winner was ZDF with its crime novels. “The boss” (episode “Der Wolf”) reached 6.30 million (21.4 percent), the first with his Christmas comedy “When the fifth little light burns” with Henning Baum and Elena Uhlig an average of 5.65 million (19 , 2 percent).
This was followed by the second episode of the game show “Go all out!”, Which was revived for specials. with Jörg Draeger, who this time wanted to see 2.19 million (7.7 percent) – and thus about half a million less than when it started on Friday the previous week. On Saturday, Sat.1 was still happy to have been the winner in the target group of young people (14 to 49 years of age) at prime time – with a market share of 14.6 percent (0.99 million).
For all viewers, the RTL game show “Ninja Warrior Germany” (semifinals, part 1) with 1.91 million viewers (6.9 percent) and the sci-fi action film “Ghost in the Shell” on ProSieben were behind Sat.1 with 1.03 million (3.6 percent) and the action comedy “Killer’s Bodyguard” on RTLzwei with 1.02 million (3.6 percent).
Kabel eins came with the crime series “Criminal Minds” to 0.63 million viewers from 8:15 p.m. (2.1 percent) and Vox with the lesbian cupboard soap “Princess Charming”, which fans have long been watching on the streaming service RTL + (formerly: TVnow) 0.30 million (1.0 percent).