“Steel Buddies – Steel Hard Business”: Cult show moves from DMAX to kabel eins

“Steel Buddies – Hard Business”
Cult show moves from DMAX to kabel eins

For almost ten years and now more than 130 episodes, the documentary soap “Steel Buddies – Steel Hard Business” has established itself as a real ratings guarantee on the private broadcaster DMAX. Now the cult series about the used car dealer Morlock Motors from owner Michael Manousakis (56) is changing channels. As kabel eins announced on Thursday morning, the show will be shown there and on the streaming portal Joyn in the fall with a slightly new look and a new name. Specifically, five episodes of the new format “Morlock Motors – Big Deals in the Westerwald” would then be broadcast. Manousakis already commented on the station transfer coup in the press release: “A top deal. We’re now on Kabel Eins. We’re really stepping on the gas again. It’s going to be really cool.”

The station boss Felix Mengden also commented in one Interview with the industry magazine “DWDL” about the deal: “The colleagues did a great job,” explains Mengden in the direction of DMAX, “we kept looking at it with envy.” He is all the happier that he managed to get Michael excited about kabel eins. A long-term collaboration has been agreed with him. They don’t want to reinvent the documentary soap opera: “This microcosm in the Westerwald can hardly be told in any other way.” However, the focus would be placed a little more on Manousakis’ international projects, for example in Indonesia or Hawaii.

New episodes are two hours long

However, the individual episodes are no longer limited to 40 to 50 minutes, but are now designed to last a full two hours. That would give the stories and the rest of the crew even more space than before. Years ago, Manousakis specialized in discarded equipment from the United States Army, primarily vehicles, but also machines, clothing, electronics and much more. He buys this from all over the world and then exhibits it on his premises in the Westerwald. In addition, he and his company are considered experts in the repair and restoration of civilian and military vehicles from the USA.

Since 2014, the company has been accompanying a camera team from the production company spin tv for the broadcaster DMAX and has now produced eleven regular seasons plus a total of eight special episodes for the successful series “Steel Buddies – Steel Hard Business”. The protagonist and company boss Michael Manousakis made his first TV appearance in 2006 in the DMAX program “Der Checker”, in which he examined used cars in advance on behalf of customers.

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