For many, your show is a Sunday evening ritual like the “crime scene”. Anne Will talks late in the evening in the first, that’s what you’re used to. But by the end of 2023 this will be over. A successor is not yet known.
Hamburg – Anne Will will end her political talk show of the same name on the first at the end of 2023. The contract is expiring, said the Norddeutsche Rundfunk (NDR) and the 56-year-old moderator on Friday in Hamburg.
Will said: “I want to concentrate fully on the remaining programs together with my great team, so fulfill the contract with undiminished commitment and great joy, but I do not want to renew it. 2024 is a new start! Then it’s time for change, other projects, new perspectives.” With that, one of the best-known television journalists of the year ends after 16 years of political talk shows on the first.
A possible successor for the Sunday evening format in the ARD community program is not yet known. The NDR and the ARD are in talks, the broadcaster said. It is a prominent slot right after the high-rated “crime scene”.
Frank Plasberg had recently stopped after many years on the talk show “Hart aber fair” in the first. The show will continue to run on Monday nights under the same name with new presenter Louis Klamroth.
16 years in political talk
Anne Will was already known to television audiences before her talk show career as a presenter of “Daily Issues”. ARD program director Christine Strobl said: “When Anne Will says goodbye at the end of the year, she has shaped the political talk in the first for over 16 years. This was and is only possible because she continued to develop personally and with her mission.”
NDR director Joachim Knuth emphasized: “The Sunday debates on the first are part of German TV history and lived plurality.” Will has shaped the political discussion in the country for many years with great success. The head of the station said about the future: “We are now looking ahead, looking forward to the next editions of “Anne Will” and are already working on projects for the future.” dpa
