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Viewers can currently look forward to a Christmas programme. It will also be exciting in 2023. An overview.
At the end of the year, New Year’s classics and an all-round festive holiday program attract countless people in front of the television. The new year will be just as exciting. Numerous changes, innovations and highlights await viewers. An overview of the highlights of the German television You will find here.
TV Special: 50 Years “Sesame Street”
The “Sesame Street” will 50 years old. On January 8th, an anniversary program will be broadcast on Erste, on KiKA, on NDR television and in the ARD media library. The anniversary day begins in the first with a “daily topic special: 50 years of Sesame Street”. Caren Miosga moderates the special together with Elmo, Wolle, Pferd. The cookie monster speaks a “topics of the day” comment.
In addition, with “food truck” a new program for children will be launched next year. Steffen Henssler and the blue cookie monster team up for the family and children’s cooking show. “Krümelmonsters Foodie Truck mit Steffen Henssler” will flicker across Germany’s screens on SuperRTL in 2023. There will be 13 episodes of 30 minutes each.
“Hard but fair”: New moderator leads through the show
Led over 20 years Frank Plasberg through the ARD Monday talk round “Hard but fair”. From January 9 occurs Louis Klamroth in his footsteps. The journalist is the son of actor Peter Lohmeyer and played his son 20 years ago in Sönke Wortmann’s post-war drama “The Miracle of Bern”.
Particularly interesting: Klamroth recently made his relationship with a climate activist Luisa Neubauer publicly. Accordingly, she will no longer be a guest on the show, the new moderator himself confirmed: “…it goes without saying that my partner will not be a guest on my show.”
There is also a change in the show “Extra”: From January 10th, an old acquaintance will moderate: Mareile Höppner, the face of “Brisant” in the first, returns to RTL. “Extra” also gets a new slot and now runs on Tuesdays in a 90-minute edition from 10:35 p.m.
Jungle camp, DSDS & Co.: Reality highlights on TV
“I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” returns home: Australia. In the past three years, the animal tests had to be postponed due to the pandemic. From January 13th to 29th, stars and starlets will be moving to the open-air shared flat in the jungle. “The Great Reunion” follows a day later. There is also some variety in the moderation at the jungle camp: Sonja Zietlow now shares a microphone with Jan Köppen instead of Daniel Hartwich.
On January 14th it’s time to say goodbye, and to none other than Jurgen Drews: The hit star and “Mallorca king” is honored by Florian Silbereisen with a show. The 77-year-old Drews had announced the end of his career in the summer. The show was taped in October.
2002 to 2003 ran the very first season of “Germany seeks the superstar”. 20 years later the last season of the talent show follows. From January 14, Dieter Bohlen will rate the rapper Katja Krasavice, singer Pietro Lombardi and singer Leony the very last DSDS candidates.
ZDF, ARD and Co.: Other TV highlights
2023 will be ZDF 60 years old: The second German television and thus also the news program “heute”, “Das aktuell Sportstudio” and the format “Das kleine Fernsehspiel” can look back on 60 years of successful ratings.
in the ARD viewers can also expect a milestone: In January the 1000th episode of “In all friendship”. The anniversary of the ARD hospital soap will be broadcast on January 31 at 9 p.m. The popular series about the fictional clinic has been around since 1998.
On ProSieben, people watching TV can expect a new season of “Who’s stealing the show?”: There will be six new episodes of the game show. This time, actress Jasna Fritzi Bauer, musician Sido and Tokio Hotel frontman Bill Kaulitz want to contest the show with moderator Joko Winterscheidt.
In the spring goes with me “Blackout” a crime series at Sat.1 at the start. The miniseries will run in double episodes on about three Thursdays. The content: While electricity and telephone networks in Europe fail, former hacker and environmental activist Pierre Manzano (Moritz Bleibtreu) suspects that this is a targeted attack.
“I have a great name” is coming to an end: After almost five decades, Südwestrundfunk is discontinuing “the quiz show with the longest history on German television”. On February 12th the 747th and final issue will be published. Since 1977 around 1500 descendants of prominent personalities from art, science and culture have been invited. Three moderators and one moderator led through the program in 46 years: Heinz Gmür, Hansjürgen Rosenbauer, Wieland Backes and since 2020 Julia Westlake.
From February, German television catches up with a retro wave: Sat.1 brings “Jeopardy!” (with Ruth Moschner), as well as “Die Pyramide” with Jörg Pilawa and “Herzblatt”: On RTLzwei, the game show “Das Glücksrad” and the guessing comedy “Ingenious next to it” make you reminisce, but with a modern twist: the ” Wheel of Fortune” will be moderated by Sonya Kraus and Thomas Hermanns.
“The Voice”, ESC and more: 2023 will be so exciting
2023 goes “The Voice Kids” further. At the Sat.1 children’s casting show, pop singer Lena and her colleagues Wincent Weiss, Alvaro Soler and Smudo and Michi Beck from the Fantastischen Vier sit in the coaching chairs. For the first time there is not a single change in personnel. The eleventh season comes in spring.
Read about this: “The Voice Kids”: Smudo and Michi Beck about their coaching role
There is actually a change in personnel on ZDF: Thomas Heinze will replace Jan-Gregor Kremp as of March “The old”. The crime classic has been part of the ZDF program since 1977. Other predecessors were Siegfried Lowitz (1977 to 1986), Rolf Schimpf (1986–2007) and Walter Kreye (2008 to 2012).
RTL uses Hape Kerkeling’s comedy “Club Las Piranjas” (1995) continued. Before the linear broadcast, the mini-series is available on RTL+. That’s what it’s all about: Animator Edwin Öttel has actually ended his career, but ex-boss Renate Wenger (Judy Winter) expects him to prevent the marriage of their son. Then he would inherit half of the club resort in Mauritius.
An eight-part thriller series will be released on ZDF in the spring. It is the film adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s best-selling novel “The swarm”. It is about the fight of a small group of scientists against an unknown swarm intelligence in the depths of the sea. ZDF also shows numerous documentaries in the context of the broadcast.
Numerous countries will again be fighting for the ESC title in 2023: Der ESC takes place in Liverpool: Great Britain stands in for Ukraine, which won in Turin, because of the war. 37 countries are participating. 31 of them will compete in the semi-finals (May 9th/11th), in which only the spectators will decide. The five big (donor) countries France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain and Germany as well as last year’s winner Ukraine are seeded for the final on May 13th.
In the course of the ESC, the “FreeESC” come back: The “Free European Song Contest” has been held twice on ProSieben so far. After 2020 and 2021, an edition was originally also planned for 2022, but this was cancelled. Now the show developed by Stefan Raab should actually come back in 2023. Raab invented the show in 2020 as a kind of replacement for the Eurovision Song Contest, which was canceled at the time due to the corona pandemic.
“Wetten, dass…?”, “Babylon Berlin” and other TV highlights
In 2023 there will again be an edition of the Saturday evening show “Wetten, dass…?” give, then possibly for the very last time. Thomas Gottschalk should be allowed to invite you back to the studio on the eve of Totensonntag (November 25th). ZDF named Offenburg as the location.
“Babylon Berlin” gets a fourth season: Although this appeared on Sky in October, it will now also be on ARD in 2023. This time the story begins at the end of 1930 and also tells of the rise of the Nazis, with Commissioner Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) developing a certain SA affinity.
“Crime scene” should with the new Commissioner Corinna Harfouch also ensure good ratings. She plays Susanne Bonard: The first case (“Nothing but the truth”) is about the alleged suicide of a security police officer. The character Bonard is an ex-big boy from the State Criminal Police Office who teaches at the police academy.
For Verena Altenberger, on the other hand, the last TV thriller is pending: At the Munich “police call” she is replaced by Johanna Wokalek as the new investigator. Before that happens, Altenberger can be seen in her last case in the first half of the year.
In the case of the Brandenburg “police call” in 2023, André Kaczmarczyk will first investigate alone with the German-Polish police in the border town of Świecko: Probably the most queer character in German Sunday crime fiction, Vincent Ross becomes the main character of the RBB “Police Call 110”. The solo case with him comes in the first quarter in the first.
2023 awaits viewers kind and ARD a novelty: director and author Axel Ranisch has turned his debut novel “Nackt über Berlin” into a mini-series. There will be six episodes of 45 minutes each. It’s about two boys, one of whom is in love with the other, an outsider story paired with a crazy action. (dpa/day)
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