TV ratings
“Aktenzeichen XY” more popular as an election thriller in the USA
The ZDF moderator Rudi Cerne leads through the program “Aktenzeichen XY … unsolved”. photo
© Sina Schuldt/dpa
The ratings winner on Wednesday evening was “Aktenzeichen XY… unsolved” with Rudi Cerne. Not even the elections in the USA could hold a candle to the ZDF wanted magazine.
“Aktenzeichen XY… unsolved” attracted the most television audience on Wednesday evening. From 8:15 p.m., 5.27 million viewers (19.8 percent) tuned in to the ZDF search magazine with Rudi Cerne. Among other things, it was about a medical student who was killed on October 3 while walking home alone from dancing in a club. One of the investigators showed the TV camera a conspicuous wooden watch that was found near the crime scene and could have come from the perpetrator. 50 tips were received before the end of the show.
The first reached with the special “Focus: Elections in the USA – where is America headed?” 4.27 million people (15.8 percent). Afterwards, 3.18 million (12.1 percent) stayed with the drama “And you are watching” with Anja Schneider and Bärbel Schwarz.
RTL broadcast the game show “The price is hot” with Harry Wijnvoord, attracting 2.15 million (8.2 percent). On ProSieben, the two entertainers created a picture disturbance on “Joko & Klaas Live”, 1.67 million (6.2 percent) were there live. Then “TV total” was shown. Michael Bully Herbig replaced the injured Sebastian Pufpaff – and 1.45 million (5.4 percent) watched.
1.23 million (5.8 percent) spent the evening with the Sat.1 cooking show “The Taste”. Kabel Eins had the crook comedy “Ocean’s 13” with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in the program – 870,000 feature film fans (3.6 percent) watched it on the screen.
Vox had the US crime series “Bones” with Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz to offer. 600,000 people (2.2 percent) were interested in this. The RTLzwei docu-soap “We clean up – how many things do you have?” 430,000 people (1.6 percent) watched with Collien Ulmen-Fernandes. The mini-series “Safe” with Judith Bohle and Carlo Ljubek had 300,000 viewers (1.1 percent) on ZDFneo.